Wounded in less than twenty-four hours. Minister of the Interior since December, Bruno Le Roux left office late Tuesday afternoon, replaced Place Beauvau by Matthias Fekl, until then in charge of Foreign Trade.
Le Roux has been on the spot since Monday night, when Quotidien, the TMC program hosted by Yann Barthès, revealed that the elected member of the first riding of Seine-Saint-Denis had regularly hired his two daughters as parliamentary assistants between 2009 And 2016, a practice not illegal, but for which the reality of the work carried out remains doubtful, according to the data collected by Quotidien. In the Fillon case, suspected of having granted a fictitious job for years to his wife Penelope, the executive quickly delayed the Minister of the Interior. The latter will now have to explain to the investigators of the Central Office for Combating Corruption and Financial and Fiscal Offenses (OCLCIFF), who are responsible for conducting the preliminary investigation opened on Tuesday by the National Financial Office. A procedure that could have "prejudiced the work of the government," as Bruno Le Roux acknowledged by announcing his resignation.
What is Bruno Le Roux suspected of?
For eight years, the former member of Parliament for Seine-Saint-Denis has hired his two daughters on several occasions as parliamentary assistants. The first fixed-term contracts (DDCs) go back to 2009, during the holidays of All Saints' Day, the last to the summer of 2016. Holiday jobs, in a way, for young people visibly early: high school girls had only 15 And 16 years at the time of their first contract, the eldest was in first and its youngest in second. Face-camera, Bruno Le Roux defended himself by describing the tasks accomplished, of the "ranking". Parliamentary secretarial work, which consists in answering the telephone and e-mails and even writing blog posts. To entrust summer jobs to loved ones would be a fairly common practice, according to the elected: "Me, I remember to have taken also people recommended to me over the summer, and so I believe it is some Something that is done regularly enough to try to discover things, to try to discover a job. "Indeed, as we have shown (Libération, March 9), about one in five (A) work a member of his or her family, over long or short periods of time. In total, the two daughters of the minister have accumulated ten fixed-term contracts for one and fourteen for the other, for an amount of 55,000 euros, estimates the journalists of Quotidien.
Is this practice legal?
Yes, but it is framed. Hiring a member (s) of his / her family as a parliamentary assistant is subject to several obligations. A deputy can recruit up to five collaborators, which he rewards with his monthly envelope of 9 618 euros. The only limit for family members: since 2011, the Assembly's Rules of Procedure stipulate that remuneration for a family job must not exceed half of the credit allocated to the Member. Moreover, since the post-Cahuzac law was passed in 2013, ministers and parliamentarians are obliged to make known at the beginning of their mandate to the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life their declarations of interests and heritage.
On Tuesday, it was impossible to consult the documents of the Minister of the Interior on the site of the institution. On the other hand, Libération was able to see the identity of the three parliamentary collaborators declared by Bruno Le Roux when he was a deputy. Among them, the wife of his substitute, Yannick Trigance, but no trace of his daughters. An absence not necessarily reprehensible. According to the High Authority, the declaration must be amended in the event of a 'substantial' change in their situation. But the law does not define what constitutes a substantial change, leaving this interpretation open to the discretion of parliamentarians. The two children of Bruno Le Roux having multiplied the contracts of short duration, their father will not fail to argue that it was not necessary to mention their hiring.
The Le Roux family will have to attest to the reality of the work carried out to avoid prosecution for fictitious jobs or even for embezzlement of public funds. Quotidien indeed noted several oddities. In the summer of 2013, one of the girls, Le Roux, trained at Yves Rocher in Belgium from 17 June to 17 August. Either during one of her fixed-term appointments at the Assembly ... Same configuration for her sister: she worked for a few weeks in 2015 a full-time job at the Assembly while attending her classes in preparatory class in Paris. The minister's office explained these concomitances: "These missions were carried out in reinforced schedules before and after the internship, and in remote work during the training period and for several additional days
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