Christine Engrand finally comes out of silence this Thursday, November 21, in plenary session of the Hauts-de-France regional council. The National Rally deputy for the 6th constituency of Pas-de-Calais, also elected to the Region, was temporarily excluded Tuesday by her party pour the misuse of its mandate fees. According to Médiapart in an article published two months ago, the elected official used the money to register on dating siteshave your dogs looked after. She is also accused of driving with an invalid license. The amount of the mandate fees which pose problems amounts to more than €10,000, according to the investigation site.
“You will hear from me soon”
After a sick leave, she spoke for the first time at the regional council which took place in Lille. It was the environmentalist regional advisor Thomas Hutin who called her to ask her to account: “Since Ms. Engrand is here, I would also like to take this opportunity to remind her that the mandate fees are quite sufficient and are used to reimburse travel made for obligatory meetings as elected officials and that it is not to make a mandate profitable. I would also like to ask what about her mandate costs in the Region since she was caught red-handed in the National Assembly? And I would like to know if, since she was only suspended from her party for six months. I would like to know if it remains attached to the RNIA group [groupe RN au conseil régional n.d.l.r] Or will it sit independently?“
Christine Engrand, suspended on Tuesday from her parliamentary membership in the National Rally party, ended up taking the microphone. “JI would like to point out here that all expenses have been fully reimbursed and for a long time, well before Mediapart used it. Here, at the Regional Council level, I even have a lot of late fees. So frankly, there is no point on that. But I will respond soon. You know, I still filed thirteen complaints. I'm not going to go into detail today, but you'll hear from me soon.“
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