The holidays are not a restful time for the deputies defeated in the last legislative elections. They have to find work and a new career as quickly as possible.
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Member of Parliament before the summer, unemployed at the start of the school year. A month ago, the second round of the legislative elections took place. After a quick campaign, the National Assembly radically changed its face, and many members of parliament found themselves without work overnight.
The national secretary of the Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, is preparing to register with France Travail. “We have the right to unemployment on the same basis as everyone else in the general schemeexplains the former deputy from the North. But, even without the sash, the communist leader sees himself in the future as “an off-the-record deputy”.
“From September, I will be holding office hours and continuing to plough the ground like never before. I am in contact with people from my area who are asking me for help : it’s as if I remained their deputy.”
Fabien Roussel, former communist deputy from the Northto franceinfo
Also beaten by the National Rally, Caroline Fiat is lucid. She needs to find a job in her field : medical. Before the dissolution, the one who was the rebellious vice-president of the Assembly was planning to do a validation of acquired skills (VAE) to obtain a diploma. “I didn’t have time to do it, so I’ll do it nowshe explains. When you become a member of parliament, you put a line on your CV that can block things. I have a nursing assistant diploma, I can no longer be a nursing assistant. I no longer want to, but there is also a complexity for establishments to say to themselves : ‘Given the repertoire she has, she knows all the laws. She’s going to bring about a revolution in the establishment.’
While waiting to be hired, MPs will receive half of their former compensation for at least two years, except for those of retirement age like Bruno Millienne, former MoDem MP. : “I will only be entitled to my MP’s pension, which will amount to 900 euros per month.” This pension of 900 euros means for him more than 4 000 euros less each month. “My house is not finished paying offexplains, explains Bruno Millienne. My wife, who has a real estate agency, is doing very badly at the moment. I didn’t need to have a hole like that. The hole is quite huge.”
More of an ant than a grasshopper, the former MP announced the creation of a consultancy firm the day after his defeat. “I started to shake up my network on July 1st because I withdrew on June 30th. The very next day, I told myself that I had to strike while the iron was hot.”explains the former MP. Other defeated MPs can count on a WhatsApp loop, in which job offers are exchanged.
Professional reconversion for former deputies: report by Maxime Glorieux