Éric Ciotti: his ex-wife accused of having held three jobs


When she was her husband’s collaborator, Caroline Magne was also press secretary to the mayor of Nice, reveals “Le Canard enchaîné”.





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LWill the Republican presidential candidate Éric Ciotti be destabilized by a new affair a few days before the party congress? This Wednesday, November 16, in its latest issue, The chained Duck explains having investigated the ex-companion of the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes, Caroline Magne. According to the weekly, she has accumulated up to three jobs at the same time … including that of parliamentary assistant to her husband on a part-time basis.

However, at the same time, according to The chained Duck, she held a job as press attaché to the mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi. According to our colleagues, Caroline Magne also joined the “urban community steering team” in 2009 when Éric Ciotti became president of the Alpes-Maritimes departmental council in December 2008. A few months earlier, still in the same community, she had become her husband’s assistant director.

With regard to her job as a parliamentary assistant, all the tasks entrusted to her by her husband would have been carried out from the MP’s constituency. Caroline Magne having never set foot in the Palais-Bourbon. She left her parliamentary job in September 2016. Today, she is the director general of services at the town hall of Mandelieu-la-Napoule (Alpes-Maritimes).

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Employment “in strict compliance with the law”

Tuesday, in a press release, Eric Ciotti defended himself from any illicit practice. “While she successively held positions as a cabinet associate in the Alpes-Maritimes department until March 2008 then in the city of Nice from March 2008 to 2012, Ms Magne worked alongside me as a parliamentary assistant in the constituency, in particular in communications, press relations and the organization of events and part-time meetings for a period of 5:25 hours per week”, he assured.

And to continue, ensuring that “the accumulation of activity has never exceeded [les] 44 hours a week”. “On the merits, I specify that I employed Mrs. Caroline Magne as a very part-time parliamentary collaborator in strict compliance with laws and regulations from my election to the National Assembly in June 2007”, hammered the deputy in his press release. Will this affair disrupt Eric Ciotti’s ambitions to become the next president of the Republicans? The answer will be given next December by the LR members themselves.




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