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Marlène Schiappa, Secretary of State for the Social and Solidarity Economy, might no longer process files relating to MGEN, whose president now shares her life.
POLITICS – Love is worth a few less wallets. Marlène Schiappa, Secretary of State for the Social and Solidarity Economy, had to give up – to withdraw, according to administrative jargon – to several files for private reasons. In question: his new romantic relationship, publicly revealed in the weekly Paris Match this Thursday, March 2.
On March 1, a decree published in the Official Journal and spotted by Release indicates that Marlène Schiappa “does not know of any acts of any kind concerning the VYV group, the MGEN group, the Union Mutualiste Retraite, the International Mutual Association and the Education and Solidarity Network Association”.
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All files related to these entities will in future be handled directly by Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, in order to avoid any risk of conflicts of interest. In fact, Marlène Schiappa now shares the life of Matthias Savignac, president since 2011 of the Mutuelle Générale de l’Éducation Nationale (MGEN).
Coronation of Virginie Efira, love at first sight in Manhattan for Marlène Schiappa, shock photos of the drought, Jill Biden… https://t.co/jUWSfz5GjT
— Paris Match (@ParisMatch)
The guardian of the social and solidarity economy forced to give up a flagship group
In Paris Matchthe couple appears hand in hand and all smiles in the 5th arrondissement of Paris and talks regarding their meeting: in New York, in December 2022, on the sidelines of a trip by Marlène Schiappa to the UN with a delegation actors in the solidarity economy, including the boss of MGEN.
“It was obvious, it was immediate”, says Schiappa in the columns of the newspaper. The Secretary of State, who claims to have warned Emmanuel Macron and Élisabeth Borne, assumes to reveal her relationship in order to “not to give the stick to be beaten”. She ensures that she does not seek to expose herself, nor to ” to hide “. “Some will think it’s too fast, too bad,” she sweeps.
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Nevertheless, this relationship forces the Secretary of State to renounce one of the most representative groups of the social and solidarity economy of which she is the guarantor. A case which is however not so rare within the government since no less than 16 of its members are in a similar situation, underline our colleagues from Freed.
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