From the environmental group of the Assembly, serial departures of advisors – Libération

Nearly half of the employees serving the environmental group in office since 2022 have left their position since June. Some speak of a lack of consideration and a heavy workload.

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It is with missing or renewed troops that the environmental group approached the budgetary sequence this fall, while the political situation has already pushed elected officials to work urgently, on a copy revealed at the last minute by the executive. Not on the side of the deputies, who increased from 23 to 38 after the early legislative elections of 2024, in particular by integrating the five “insurgents”, these ex-rebels breaking with Jean-Luc Mélenchon. But from the point of view of the group's advisors, that is to say the eleven employees employed by the collective of elected officials to manage thematic subjects or support functions. Unlike parliamentary assistants whose fate is linked to the election of their deputy, their contract did not automatically end with the dissolution.

With effective departures staggered since June, these are five of the eleven colleagues