2023-12-25 21:57:33
It can no longer comment on an approval concerning the anti-corruption body. Élisabeth Borne has withdrawn from any act concerning Anticor, according to a decree published in the Official Journal, while the association awaits the outcome of its request for approval by Tuesday evening, after the judicial annulment of the previous one. .
???? Following a Decree of December 23, 2023, the Prime Minister can no longer comment on the association’s request for approval @anticor_org. This power now belongs to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. @MinColonna has until December 26 to issue approval. pic.twitter.com/5OVZbNEooP
— Vincent Brengarth (@v_brengarth) December 24, 2023
“The Prime Minister (Élisabeth Borne) is not aware of acts of any kind relating to the Anticor association”, we can read in the decree signed on Saturday by Élisabeth Borne and published in the JO of December 24.
“The corresponding powers are exercised by the Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs” Catherine Colonna, it is specified. When asked, Matignon only responded that “the examination of the application for approval by the competent services continues”.
Risks of conflict of interest
“When we submitted our application for approval, we had already highlighted a risk of conflict of interest in two files: that of the Triangle Tower (in Paris) – Élisabeth Borne was director of town planning at the time – ( and) that of highways – Élisabeth Borne was in the cabinet of (Minister Ségolène) Royal at the time,” explained Élise Van Beneden, president of the Anticor office.
In June, a few days before seeing its approval canceled in court, the association filed a complaint against X, suspecting that motorway concessionaires may have been favored by the Valls government during the conclusion of the Motorway Recovery Plan (PLA ) in 2015.
It was Alexis Kohler, current secretary general of the Élysée, and Élisabeth Borne who took care of the negotiations, then noted the program Complément d’investigation and the weekly Marianne, which revealed the complaint.
A new approval request pending
The association created in 2002, involved in more than 160 procedures including the attribution of the Football World Cup to Qatar, the investigation for illegal taking of interests targeting the secretary general of the Élysée, Alexis Kohler, or that against the guard des Sceaux, Éric Dupond-Moretti, before the Court of Justice of the Republic, awaits by Tuesday evening the response to his new request for approval, which allows him to intervene in cases fighting alleged corruption .
In June, it had this approval withdrawn by the Paris administrative court. The cancellation was confirmed in November by the Paris Administrative Court of Appeal.
The administrative court was seized by two dissidents from the association who considered the procedure for renewing the approval irregular and judged that the association did not meet the conditions required to be approved. Without approval, the NGO can no longer become a civil party.
December 23 = the 1st min. moves away, almost 6m after our request. Anticor hopes that @MinColonna will be keen to preserve citizen action against corruption because it is essential. pic.twitter.com/1i1hifqoSb
— Anticor (@anticor_org) December 24, 2023
Anticor hopes that Catherine Colonna “will be keen to preserve citizen action against corruption because it is essential”, writes the association on X (formerly Twitter).
In government, the acts concerning Anticor had already been the subject of a deportation of the Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti in favor of the Prime Minister, Jean Castex then Élisabeth Borne.
Complaints from Anticor have also led to proceedings concerning the sale of Alstom’s energy branch to General Electric and a preliminary investigation into the Russian contracts of Alexandre Benalla, the former advisor to President Emmanuel Macron.
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