Clothes bill removes a French deputy from the Macron party from her chair!
Coralé Dubost, a prominent lawmaker from President Emmanuel Macron's party, was forced to resign over spending 2,000 euros a month on her underwear from Parliament.
According to a report published by the British newspaper "The Times", Dubost, 39, a former executive director at the Business School who was elected to a parliamentary seat in the city of Montpellier for the "Republic on the Move" party, faced a parliamentary investigation into ethics, accusing her of spending parliamentary money on hotels and meals. and outings that had no apparent effect on her parliamentary duties, as well as the mismanagement of her assistants, by requiring them to spy on her local staff, and to take care of her cleaning and shoe repair.
For its part, Dubost denied any wrongdoing, and indicated that she had been misled about what she was allowed to buy from her fixed monthly allowance, amounting to 5,373 euros, for personal expenses, and confirmed that she was the victim of a "gang".
"It is time for me to withdraw from political life and devote myself to my family," she said. "I have been targeted by unfair attacks, and they are hurting my political party, election deadlines, and even more so, democracy."
Dubost also described herself as "stupid", adding: "I'm not a cheater, there are parliamentary clothes and personal costumes. I don't wear the same clothes in my personal and professional life."
The parliamentary report had mentioned that the MP also spent parliamentary money on hotels, meals and picnics, which had no apparent impact on her parliamentary duties.
This highlights how little control is still applied to the allowances granted to France's 577 deputies, in addition to their €86,000 salaries.
The British newspaper notes that the Macron administration has tightened the rules and required MPs to submit receipts for the annual allowance of 64,476 euros they receive in advance for personal expenses.
Moreover, they receive 19,000 euros a year for office equipment, taxis, mail and telephones, in addition to another 127,000 euros a year to pay the salaries of their parliamentary assistants, and they also enjoy unlimited free use of local transport and rail travel.
Dubost's departure is an embarrassment to the newly re-elected president, who is awaiting, after six weeks, the parliamentary elections in which he will seek to renew his party's majority in the outgoing parliament, knowing that the resigned MP was aiming for her re-election.
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