Who, Olivier Véran or Bruno Le Maire, will be the dissonant voice in the majority?
The government spokesman took the opposite view of his Minister of the Economy this Monday morning, questioned on the two open judicial inquiries on the possible favoritism which the private firm McKinsey would have benefited from on public contracts, after his intervention. in the 2017 and 2022 presidential campaigns.
Sunday, Bruno Le Maire had recognized "abuses" and a "drift" in the past in the significant use of ministries to consulting firms to carry out public policies.
But this “drift has been corrected”, estimated the minister.
"I don't know what a drift or abuse is, I know that when I needed to catch up with Germany in the vaccine campaign, I called on a company that had just advised Germany. “Germany in the development of vaccination centers”, positioned Olivier Véran, who was Minister of Health between February 2020 and May 2022.
He spoke of processes “which are super clear and transparent” in the attributions.
"It's not that I'm saying that I don't agree or not" with Bruno Le Maire, it's that in the Covid crisis, "we really really had no choice", he said. he continued.
Recalling President Emmanuel Macron's watchword to "reduce the sail on contracts made with private firms", he regretted that the State no longer has "sufficient skills to manage everything on its own".
“There have been programs to reduce civil servants, of which certain presidents have made themselves the heralds,” he recalled.
At the time, “the State considered that it was no longer up to it to keep civil servants (…) and that it would go through the private sector when it needed it”, he lamented.
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