2023-05-26 09:13:00
On Thursday, the Politico site announced that the European Parliament had opened an investigation last November into Belgian MP Assita Kanko (N-VA) for accusations of harassment. Politico then spoke to several former employees of the MEP and obtained voice recordings, emails and text messages, proving that Assita Kanko was calling her employees on weekends, holidays and following hours. office, sometimes even at night.
Our colleagues from Het Laatste Nieuws decided to interview four former collaborators as well as five people who responded anonymously, ensuring that they were close to the file concerning these accusations once morest the Flemish politician. “I want to bring this matter to light out of pure party loyalty. By putting these personal issues on the table, I hope the N-VA will tackle the issue head-on.” indicates a member of the N-VA to our colleagues.
Assita Kanko would have, since 2019, employed 16 different collaborators and trainees. Profiles that were not chosen by chance according to a source familiar with the matter and interviewed by HLN. “Young profiles who might not go once morest the strict requirements set in the world of politics.”
Another source goes even further in the accusations by referring to the way the MEP treated her employees. “She has the totally wrong idea of what a ‘personal assistant’ is,” launch this source. “She treated her employees as her vassals: they had to carry out ‘special’ missions for them. His ex-collaborators had to go to the dry cleaners, play the driver, or carry his handbag, for example.
After the publication of Politico’s article, Assita Kanko reacted fairly quickly on the subject through her Twitter account. “I cannot go into the merits of the case at the moment because the procedure is still in progress. […] It’s pretty unreal to be accused in the press of all sorts of things that procedurally I can’t defend myself once morest publicly right now.”
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