European Parliament refuses to pay Jordan Bardella's chief of staff as parliamentary assistant

The trial of the parliamentary assistants of the National Front (FN), which threatens Marine Le Pen with ineligibility, does not dissuade the National Rally (RN) from counting on the generosity of the European taxpayer. Its president, Jordan Bardella, was refused employment as a parliamentary assistant in November local of his chief of staff, as revealed The Chained DuckDecember 4. Nine other far-right MEPs, elected in July, are in the same situation.

The letter of refusal from the European Parliament to Jordan Bardella, which The World has been obtained, mentions the risk that “the resources of the Union (…) be used for purposes other than those for which they are intended to be used, in particular for the benefit of a political movement”. The president of the RN, for his part, is surprised: his chief of staff was already paid as a parliamentary assistant local during the previous European mandate and evidence of its work in this area has been provided. Local parliamentary assistants are paid directly by the MEP, unlike assistants based in Brussels. They are supposed to help the elected official explain his work as an MEP in his constituency, in this case France.

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