This year 2024 will have been an “annus horribilis” for French public finances. The new Prime Minister Michel Barnier even judges ” very serious “the country’s budgetary situation and it” requested all the elements to assess its exact reality “, he said in a statement to AFP, while his future government partners do not want to hear about tax increases.
The issue of public finances is close to the heart of Reconquête member Sarah Knafo. Invited to RMC on September 20, the former magistrate of the Court of Auditors proposed some ways to make savings, particularly targeting development aid.
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According to Sarah Knafo, who says she is basing her findings on figures from the OECD and the French official development assistance website, France has granted ” 800 million euros to Algeriae”. In response to these claims, Nahel Merzouk’s lawyer, Nabil Boudi, whose death sparked the June 2023 riots, announced on X: that a complaint will be filed with the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office against this European MP for spreading fake news “.
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Sarah Knafo responds to Nabil Boudi
On her X account, Sarah Knafo responded to the lawyer by stating that Algeria had received “842 million euros, and only from 2017 to 2022”. “From 2018 to 2022 (without the year 2017, therefore, neither 2023 nor 2024), this aid still amounts to 588 million euros”argues the member of Reconquête – this last figure being verifiable on the government site relating to French public aid.
And to send a final message to Nabil Boudi: “ If you don’t like it, you should file a complaint against the government that gives money to Algeria and dares to publish the figures.. »
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