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Like Olivier Dussopt before her, Amélie de Montchalin regrets that “on Twitter, on social networks” people say “that the State paid a billion euros to Mckinsey”.

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“A billion for McKinsey, nowhere in this report (of the Senate, which she then extends with her right hand)there is written that there is a billion for McKinsey, nowhereshe says. But on Twitter, on social networks, it’s written everywhere. Our role here is to set things straight. “My concern is more for the public debatecontinued M.^me of Montchalin. We have seen it in our country, these are spheres which, for months, even years, we have seen on the Covid, on the vaccine, now on the war in Ukraine, disseminate a certain number of allegations , which become false information which becomes misleading words and which distract from the real debates. »

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In its report, the Senate states that the State spent more than 1 billion euros in 2021 for all consulting firms, half in IT consulting, the other in strategy and organization. Earlier in this press conference, Mr. Dussopt claimed that the figure was 893.9 million euros, not one billion.

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