It is a case that is strangely reminiscent of the Penelopegate which had splashed François Fillon on the eve of the 2017 presidential campaign. The chained Duck reveals this Wednesday morning November 16 that the ex-girlfriend of Éric Ciotti would have accumulated several jobs in politics and in several communities at the same time for several years. Nothing indicates at this stage that these jobs were fictitious, but here is the deputy LR, candidate for the presidency of the party, forced to justify himself less than three weeks from an internal election of which he is the favorite.
Parliamentary collaborator of Éric Ciotti from 2007 to 2016, Caroline Magne would, according to The chained Duck, over the same period occupied a whole series of positions at the local level: with Christian Estrosi at the town hall of Nice, at the Departmental Council of the Alpes Maritimes, at the urban community of Nice and finally at the head of the municipality of La Colle-sur -Loup, still in the Alpes-Maritimes.
The mother of the children of Éric Ciotti would have accumulated up to three jobs at the same time. In a press release, the deputy said: basely attacked “, confirms a large part of this information but specifies that his ex-companion was doing what she has always done, communication.
” You don’t shoot friends »
No comment this Wednesday either from the party leadership or from its two competitors. Instructions were given in Bruno Retailleau’s team not to exploit his revelations. ” You don’t shoot friends “, abounds a close friend of Aurélien Pradié. Because among the Republicans, the Fillon affair left traces; “ it started like that, we said to ourselves that it was not serious and we know the rest », points out a neo-deputy who has only one fear, that these revelations are only the first episode of a new but just as bad soap opera on the right.