The “Duck chained” says Wednesday that the ex-wife of the LR deputy has accumulated several contracts with her husband in the National Assembly, in Nice and in the Department.
Le Monde with AFP
In its edition of Wednesday, November 16, the Duck chained says that the former wife of the deputy Eric Ciotti (Les Républicains, LR), Caroline Magne, has accumulated various jobs in the National Assembly, in Nice and the Department, with her husband or political allies.
Press attaché of Christian Estrosi, she became, in 2007, parliamentary attaché of Eric Ciotti when he was elected to the Assembly, in addition to a job obtained at the Departmental Council of Alpes Maritimes when her husband took the presidency in 2008.
The article also reveals that she became deputy director of the mayor of Nice before joining the piloting team of the urban community, exercising these responsibilities until 2011. At the Assembly, his contract took At the end of 2016, but it also, between 2014 and 2016, exercised responsibilities in the commune of La Colle-sur-Loup, and had a job in the diocese of Nice between 2012 and 2014, assures the Duck chained.
Eric Ciotti says he is “attacked”
Eric Ciotti, candidate for the presidency of his party, said he was “basically attacked” on Wednesday after the newspaper revelations, on the eve of the election for the presidency of the Les Républicains party in early December. “In both cases, the accumulation of activity has never exceeded forty-four hours a week,” he replied in a statement.
The deputy explained that he used Caroline Magne as a parliamentary collaborator “in time very part -time” and “in strict compliance with laws and regulations”. His job “in constituency” reached “five hours twenty-five per week”, he assured. As for the one at the town hall of La Colle-sur-Loup, “the weekly working time has never exceeded nine hours a week”, he said.
“The explanation is quite clear, when you say that there is no questionable element in law, I do not see a priori where is the subject,” said the boss of the deputies LR Olivier on Public Senate Marleix. On the same channel, senator Valérie Boyer (LR) said herself “tired of these perpetual attacks to discredit our candidates, it is something that seems very unhealthy for democracy”.
For his part, Christian Estrosi, mentor of Eric Ciotti before their blurred, refused to comment on this affair. “I remember a collaborator who was rather honest and rather rigorous,” said the vice-president of horizons on France 2.