They will soon be equal in speaking time, but they are not in heritage. The declarations of the assets and participations of the candidates for the Elysée were unveiled on Tuesday, March 8, by the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life. We learn in particular that the heritage of Emmanuel Macron amounts to around half a million euros, against 1.2 million for Marine Le Pen, 4.2 million for Eric Zemmour or 9.7 million for Valérie Pécresse. .
Real estate, assets over 10,000 euros, cars, bank accounts, but also participations in the capital of companies, possible debts, and still professional activities of the last five years: each of the twelve candidates had to fill in these sections and submit their declarations, certified on honor, to the Constitutional Council before Friday evening March 4. This was one of the conditions, along with those linked to 500 sponsorships, to be able to compete in the first round of the presidential election, which will take place on April 10.
Marine Le Pen’s Hungarian loan confirmed
The publication of the HATVP also confirms the loan of 10.6 million granted by a Hungarian bank for the benefit of Marine Le Pen for her presidential campaign. The loan runs for sixteen months and comes from the MKB establishment.
This is not the first time that the assets of the candidates for the Elysée have been revealed, the first exercise dating back to 2017, but it is a first for the collection and publication of their declarations of interests and activities, under the Public Life Morality Act 2017.
This publication makes it possible, for example, to know the remuneration that certain candidates have obtained for the offices they hold. Thus, in 2021:
- Emmanuel Macron received 196,000 euros (net taxable, taking into account the benefit in kind of housing) as Head of State;
- Anne Hidalgo, 55,000 euros (net, minus deduction at source) as mayor of Paris;
- Valérie Pécresse, 54,000 euros (net) as President of the Ile-de-France Region, 1,000 euros as Community Advisor;
- Yannick Jadot, 108,000 euros (gross) as an MEP;
- Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, 69,000 euros as a deputy, 1,400 euros as a municipal councilor and 1,200 as a community councilor;
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon, 71,000 euros as a deputy;
- Marine Le Pen, 70,000 euros (net taxable) as a deputy, which is added to the 60,000 euros received as president of the National Rally; elected departmental councilor in June, she also declares 20,000 euros annually for this position;
- Fabien Roussel, 70,000 euros (taxable) as deputy, 1,300 euros as municipal councillor, 2,100 euros as community councillor;
- Jean Lassalle, 93,000 euros as deputy.
The Constitutional Council transmitted these declarations to the HATVP, responsible for publishing them – but not for checking them – so as not to “undermining equality in the suffrage”.
However, ten of the twelve candidates have in fact already been subject to the control of this independent body. Emmanuel Macron has already submitted a declaration of the financial situation at the end of his term of office and the HATVP has ruled that the change in this since he entered the Elysée in 2017 does not present “no abnormal character”. Fabien Roussel, Jean Lassalle, Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan were audited for their mandates as deputies in particular, Yannick Jadot for that which he exercised as an MEP, Valérie Pécresse and Anne Hidalgo for those of regional presidents.