European Parliament refuses to pay Jordan Bardella’s chief of workers as parliamentary assistant | EUROtoday

The trial of the parliamentary assistants of the National Front (FN), which threatens Marine Le Pen with ineligibility, doesn’t dissuade the National Rally (RN) from relying on the generosity of the European taxpayer. Its president, Jordan Bardella, was refused employment as a parliamentary assistant in November native of his chief of workers, as revealed The Chained DuckDecember 4. Nine different far-right MEPs, elected in July, are in the identical state of affairs.

The letter of refusal from the European Parliament to Jordan Bardella, which The World has been obtained, mentions the danger that “the resources of the Union (…) be used for purposes other than those for which they are intended to be used, in particular for the benefit of a political movement”. The president of the RN, for his half, is shocked: his chief of workers was already paid as a parliamentary assistant native in the course of the earlier European mandate and proof of its work on this space has been supplied. Local parliamentary assistants are paid immediately by the MEP, in contrast to assistants primarily based in Brussels. They are supposed to assist the elected official clarify his work as an MEP in his constituency, on this case France.

François Paradol, 37, has been Jordan Bardella’s trusted man for the reason that latter’s first activist conferences within the 2010s. Long employed by e-Politic, the RN’s communications service supplier, he manages his small workforce of collaborators on the occasion’s Paris headquarters. Other tasks occupy him: his mandate as regional councilor for Ile-de-France, the place he’s way more diligent than his boss, his seat on the board of administrators of Ile-de-France Mobilités, the regional union public transport, and his voluntary position as president of the RN Financing Association. In addition, he has been, since 2020, native parliamentary assistant to MEP Jordan Bardella. It was by eager to renew his features, after his re-election, that the quantity one of many occasion encountered the refusal of the establishment.

“There is nothing problematic”

According to the response made by the European Parliament, Mr. Bardella demanded a contract for his relative of 21.5 hours per week, for a gross month-to-month wage of 1,815 euros, making it attainable to boost the full remuneration of his chief of workers to six,027 month-to-month euros uncooked. For the European Parliament, “given [ses] responsibilities of president of the RN and in view of the remuneration paid by the RN to Mr. Paradol, it would seem that the functions of “assistant to the president RN” of the latter transcend easy administrative assist and symbolize greater than “third time ” ».

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