Paris (AFP)
The former first president of the Court of Auditors Didier Migaud is appointed president of the High authority for the transparency of the public life (HATVP) as from January 31, according to a decree published in the Official journal Thursday.
Emmanuel Macron had proposed Mr. Migaud to chair the HATVP, a nomination submitted to the Law commissions of each assembly, which validated it on Tuesday in total by 45 votes to 4.
Mr. Migaud was head of the Court of Auditors since 2010. At 67, he succeeds former high magistrate Jean-Louis Nadal as president of the HATVP, an independent institution created by the post-Cahuzac laws on transparency from 2013.
Elected local from 1986 to 2010, member of parliament from 1988 to 2010, he was notably general rapporteur for the budget and chairman of the Finance Committee of the National Assembly.
The HATVP examines the heritage and activities of members of the government and some 15,000 public officials, and since the Sapin II Law of 2016 has managed a public register of interest representatives. It will also merge from February 1 with the ethics committee of civil servants and thus control in particular public-private mobility.
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