Presidential candidates François Bayrou, Olivier Besancenot, Marie-Georges Buffet, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Ségolène Royal, Nicolas Sarkozy and Dominique Voynet answered questions on proposals made by TI France to prevent corruption or to remove corruption risks in education, political party financing, public contracting, whistle blowing, development aid, international judiciary cooperation, national defence and France’s extractive industries.

While the candidates generally agreed on and committed to the anti-corruption proposals made by TI France, the question of limited access to information for public documents involving national security or higher interests (“Secret défense”) and limiting the political mandate to two periods provoked differing answers.

TI France points out that it is up to the public to hold their politicians accountable to seeing these anti-corruption proposals through and has committed to monitoring the effective follow-up and implementation of these proposals.

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