2023-12-19 11:43:28
The head clerk of the Walloon parliament, Frédéric Janssens, spoke at length on Tuesday morning on the disciplinary procedure launched once morest him at the end of October by the Bureau of the assembly. If he recognizes errors, he above all assures that he has acted in compliance with the regulations and points out the responsibility of the politician.
“I have always acted in compliance with the rules in force and in the interest of the Walloon Parliament. I recognize errors of assessment and discernment – in personnel management, editor’s note. I certainly lacked empathy. I regret these errors, as do the fact that agents had to suffer. I’m also sad to have been misunderstood“, he explained during a press conference organized in Namur.
“I apologize to those I have offended or disappointed. But from there to making me a scapegoat, an expiatory victim of one and the other, it is incomprehensible and shocking“, added Frédéric Janssens while calling “to calm and reason, mainly from the political world which quickly passed on its errors to me“.
“I have responsibilities, I assume them but it’s a bit simple to say that it was the clerk who made deals in his corner: the Office was informed and took decisions on many occasions“, he stressed.
The Parliamentary Office proposed, on October 27, the automatic resignation of the clerk, suspended since September 2022 in the wake of the revelations on the assembly’s expenses. Frédéric Janssens then referred the matter to the Board of Appeal, which heard him last Thursday.
The Board of Appeal has two months, until January 13, to issue a non-binding opinion to the Bureau, which will in turn have two additional months to confirm or overturn its decision.
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