Three advisors to Prisca Thevenot have left the government spokesperson’s office, according to a decree published on Saturday in the Official Journal, bringing the number of departures in the minister’s team to seven in less than a month.
Three advisors to Prisca Thevenot have left the government spokesperson’s office, according to a decree published on Saturday in the Official Journal, bringing the number of departures in the minister’s team to seven in less than a month. The functions of Prisca Thévenot’s special advisor, her “parliamentary and local elected” advisor, as well as her advisor “in charge of the argument” were “terminated”, specifies the decree.
The three concerned “submitted their resignation”, according to the daily Libération, which echoed these departures on Friday evening by making the link with “the behavior of a government spokesperson weakened by hiccups from communication”. Appointed in January, the minister had already lost her “discourse” advisor at the beginning of April, questioned by a Mediapart investigation revealing her “attraction” to the ideas of far-right essayist Alain Soral.
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Then in mid-April, his three main advisors – director, deputy director and chief of staff – slammed the door at the same time, immediately replaced by other ministerial colleagues.
The spokesperson had meanwhile found herself at the center of a mix-up over the terrorist threat, announcing an “attempt to take action” during the Easter weekend before having to correct her own statements during a report from the Council of Ministers.