Who runs the French state, and where they come from and go
Le Cercle links every appointment to a minister's office, the Élysée, Matignon, the government and the boards of state companies published in the Journal officiel since 1990 with Parliament, the HATVP, Wikidata, the company register, the register of lobbies and public contracts. It shows who worked together, for how long, and what they did before and after.
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- people in the network
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- appointed to a minister's office, the Élysée, Matignon or the government
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- state boards
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- pairs who worked together in two or more separate stints
Explorer
Search a person, an office or a board and follow who worked with whom, as a graph. Every person has a timeline of their appointments and outside roles, with sources.
Profiles
One page per person, office, board or organisation: appointments, careers, mandates, public money and leads, every source linked, ready to share or print.
Leads
Coincidences worth checking: moves between the state and companies, contracts with the same person on both sides, lobbies working on a ministry one of their people worked in.
Public money
State subsidies and state contracts received by the organisations where people from the offices hold or held a role, year by year, with who was there when the money came.
Facts and sources
The figures behind the network, the sources it is built from, how complete each one is, and the known limits.
Read this first
- Built automatically from public records. Every name, date and role comes from a public source linked on the person's page. Nothing is entered by hand.
- Matches can be wrong. Records from different sources are joined by rules: an official identifier, a Wikidata id, a full birth date, or a name with a birth month or a shared board. A namesake can slip through. Every link says how it was made; check the source before relying on it.
- Appearing here says nothing wrong about anyone. Working in an office, sitting on a board, moving to a company or holding a role in an organisation that lobbies is lawful and common. The Leads page lists coincidences of dates and names, places to start checking, not findings or accusations.
- Incomplete by nature. Moves to the private sector, family ties and company roles are known only when a source records them. A missing role does not mean there was none.
- Dated. The data is a snapshot, refreshed from the sources from time to time; the date is at the top of every page.
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