2023-09-11 14:31:00
The acting municipal secretary of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean has just submitted her resignation. In a letter addressed to the members of the college of aldermen, she informs of her “desire for an end to [sa] appointment as municipal secretary ff”. Marijke Aelbrecht denounces an unbearable political stranglehold on municipal administration.
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”Recent developments show that decisions are taken by the College of Mayor and Aldermen without taking into account these legal provisions: files established outside of the Secretary FF or non-compliance with opinions given by the municipal hierarchy. It is to be feared that no member of staff is still safe from the whims and other settling of scores by politicians. The non-respect, by the college of aldermen, of the authority of the acting secretary and his direct collaborators and certain decisions taken by members of the college have led to the impossibility of making the administration function in a normal and calm manner. she assures in the missive that La DH was able to read.
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”She has become unmanageable. This situation also affects the service provided to residents. An example was seen in August and, unfortunately, a large number of people were victims. To paraphrase Ms. Raiss’s quote, Molenbeek residents deserve better than political games. The current situation and the context in which everything is taking place are no longer tenable or acceptable to me.”
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This request for resignation takes place in a particularly tense context between the local political world and the municipal administration. At the end of July, the three unions of the Molenbeek administration denounced “the toxic work atmosphere” within the municipal hotel. And highlighted “political interference and other issues regularly addressed in consultations, negotiations, and CPPT”.
The list of denunciations is long. The unions also mentioned “a toxic working atmosphere, the use of administration workers for private purposes, a tendency to exert pressure and destabilize senior civil servants, a legal service orchestrated by certain representatives of the majority, restraint on remuneration without respect for the 1965 law, the loss of confidence in the CESI which admits to not encouraging the filing of formal complaints given that it is contractually and financially linked to the municipality…”
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