“Digging into [ses] cartons”, the Chained Duck, reviews in its November 16 version that Eric Ciotti “a, like the previous prime minister [François Fillon]employed the mom of his youngsters in penelopesque situations! The satirical weekly affirms that his ex-companion Caroline Magne “has gathered three jobs on the identical time”.
A a few weeks of the election of the president of the Republicanswhich is to happen on December three and four and for which Eric Ciotti is a candidatethe newspaper lists the numerous jobs held from 2007 to 2016 by the «superwoman», successively or cumulatively relying on durations and jobs: parliamentary assistant to Eric Ciotti, press attaché to Christian Estrosi, worker of the Alpes-Maritimes departmental council, deputy director of the mayor of Good, member of the steering workforce of the city group, director common of the providers of the municipality of La Colle-sur-Loup and worker of the diocese of Good.
nice morning reviews that the deputy LR defended himself from any fictitious job by affirming this Wednesday that he has “employed Mrs. Caroline Magne as a really part-time parliamentary collaborator”, “within the constituency”, and for a interval “5 hours and twenty-five minutes per week” from 2007 to 2012, when she labored on the city corridor of Good, then “9 hours per week” from 2014 to 2016 when she labored in Colle-sur-Loup. “In each circumstances, the buildup of exercise by no means exceeded forty-four hours per week”, assures Eric Ciotti.
Taken up by many media this Wednesday, the knowledge of the chained duck is commonly introduced as a “revelation” or the fruit of a “investigation”. In actuality, if this accumulation essentially raises the query of the presumably fictitious nature of sure jobs, the assorted actions of Caroline Magne weren’t secret since they had been, for probably the most half, indicated within the press for a few years.
These positions are particularly immediately out there on his LinkedIn account. The data supplied on the skilled social community exhibits that she held two and even three jobs concurrently from June 2007 to August 2016.
From 2007 to 2009, as much as 5 capabilities
From June 2007 to March 2008, she mixed the 2 jobs of parliamentary assistant to Eric Ciotti and chief of employees to the president of the Alpes-Maritimes division, Christian Estrosi.
From March 2008, Christian Estrosi was elected mayor of Good. Caroline Magne follows him to city corridor as deputy director of cupboard, in command of communication and occasions. She was then nonetheless a parliamentary collaborator of deputy Eric Ciotti.
As of August 2008, based on the native information web site Nice Appointmenta reshuffle on the city corridor of Good led to the appointment of Caroline Magne as «chef[fe] workplace of the three communities – Good city corridor, Alpes-Maritimes common council and Good Côte d’Azur agglomeration group” whereas remaining “additionally in command of press relations for the deputy mayor of Good”, Christian Estrosi. That’s 4 positions. nice morning reviews the response of the socialist Patrick Allemand, for whom this accumulation is a “distinctive truth in France”. The caps of “chief of employees of the three communities” are additionally cited by l’Express in an article of October 2008. The journalists there neglect to notice that Caroline Magne continues to be a parliamentary collaborator of Eric Ciotti, as she claims on LinkedIn, which might deliver the whole to 5 capabilities.
From 2009 to 2012, communication and occasions
On the social community, this triple hat to municipal, departmental and conurbation communities just isn’t talked about. However the former spouse of Eric Ciotti nonetheless signifies a mix of three capabilities. From 2010 to 2012, she introduced herself as parliamentary assistant to Ciotti, deputy chief of employees to the deputy mayor of Good, Christian Estrosi, in command of communication and occasions, but additionally director of the Good Jazz Pageant. The mere accumulation of those final two positions had furthermore earned the individual involved a query from a journalist from Nice Premium in July 2012: “You’re the director of the Good Jazz Pageant. What does your job include when you find yourself on the identical time director of communication for town? asks the writer of the article. Reply : “The NJF is a part of my each day life all 12 months spherical. I deal with it like all different communication recordsdata however it’s true that within the final 5 months previous the competition, that’s to say from February, an actual “machine” is about up with all of the municipal providers involved. : safety, cleansing, occasions… We meet very frequently throughout the steering committees.”
The chained duck cites two different positions that don’t seem on her LinkedIn account: she joined from 2009 to 2011 “City Group Steering Group” of Good (which appears to correspond to the aforementioned cap of chief of employees of the agglomeration group) and he or she is “worker” within the diocese of Good from January 2012 to August 2014.
Making an allowance for the knowledge from Monde, based on which Caroline Magne leaves the city corridor of Good in July 2012 (and never in January 2014 as she presents it on LinkedIn) and people of the chained duck, it seems that from September 2012 to August 2014, the previous companion of the LR major finalist had two positions (parliamentary assistant to Ciotti and a job for the diocese). Nevertheless, this determine might be revised upwards since in October 2012, the “monthly of public communication” Brief reviews the substitute on the city corridor of Good of Caroline Magne, “who’s at the moment a lecturer in political communication”, with out the institution the place his classes are given and the length of his mission being specified. A perform that escaped the Chained duck.
If this info appears to seem as revelations within the eyes of the press citing the chained Duck this Wednesday, the accumulations of the spouse of Eric Ciotti have aroused the curiosity of journalists for a few years.
Along with the triple hat “City Corridor of Good, Normal Council of the Alpes-Maritimes and Agglomeration Group” quoted by the native press in August 2008, the nationwide press had appeared into the accumulations of the Niçoise on two events.
Since 2014, within the declarations of pursuits of Eric Ciotti
In 2014, when the Excessive Authority for the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP) revealed the declarations of curiosity of deputies, Eric Ciotti was amongst these parliamentarians who paid a member of their household as an worker. From the knowledge out there on this file, the information web site 20 Minutes notice that“Eric Ciotti employs his spouse as a collaborator. The latter, “a short lived instructor”, can be deputy director of the workplace of the UMP mayor of Good, Christian Estrosi”.
Then in 2017, throughout the Pénélope Fillon affair revealed by the chained Duck, new articles are written to feature MPs who work with their spouses. In a file, the journal Challenges cites Eric Ciotti for instance by referring to his spouse’s quite a few posts declared to the HATVP in 2014.
