One month after the legislative elections, defeated deputies seek professional retraining

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.

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 North

to 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.’