Funding for the campaign, Sarkozy said the Elysee “see with Woerth”
Posted on July 6, 2010 by admin
“It’s totally untrue,” said this Tuesday, July 6 A spokesman for the Elysee Reuters while the former accounting Bettencourt said Tuesday morning on July 6 at the site Mediapart that it has received envelopes of cash from the couple of billionaires while mayor of Neuilly. “It was a regular” reveals Claire T. in a long interview with news site.
But the Elysée is much more circumspect when it comes to defending his Labour Minister, Eric Woerth, weakened in recent weeks for suspected links with Bettencourt. Claire T. also states that 150,000 euros in cash to finance the presidential campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 were awarded to Eric Woerth as treasurer of the UMP. “It seems unfounded but it must do with the campaign treasurer,” he said. A start dropping?
“All this is true,” replied the office of Minister of Labour a little later in the morning. “The financing of the presidential campaign and that of the UMP are always made in strict compliance with rules regarding funding of political life,” the source said the Ministry of Labour.
Several leaders of the majority – Cope on France 2 or Raffarin on Europe 1, called the President to speak. “Nicolas Sarkozy is considering an intervention,” said a close to the Elysee Palace, acknowledging that “there is now brushing against a regime crisis.