Anne Hidalgo's assistant in charge of accessibility and disability, Jacques Galvani, resigns to devote himself to the new company he runs and which imposes an " impossible
" workload on him
to carry out in parallel.
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Became in April Managing Director France of Atlante, a subsidiary of the NHOA group, which wants to develop a European network of electric charging stations, Jacques Galvani, 53, encounters a "
workload too heavy
" to carry out the two tables, he explained to AFP on Thursday, confirming information from Le Monde.
Especially since with the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the accessibility file has become “
more and more demanding
”, he underlines.
Fifth deputy out of 37 to resign
This enarque of the promotion Marc Bloch (1997) therefore sent his letter of resignation to the socialist mayor and to the prefect of Ile-de-France, and should be replaced by the next Paris Council in early July.
“
The mandates of elected officials have become much heavier than before
”, estimates this former executive of McKinsey, Lagardère and Casino.
“
In the big cities, they have become full-time jobs.
“Elected for the first time in 2020, during the re-election of Anne Hidalgo, Jacques Galvani, who keeps his mandate as councilor of Paris, is the fifth deputy out of 37 to resign since.
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As of July 2020, the cultural assistant Christophe Girard had been forced to resign because of his links with the writer accused of pedophilia Gabriel Matzneff.
Then in September, it was the deputy to the Seine Pierre Aidenbaum who had resigned before being indicted for rape.
Célia Blauel (prospective 2030 and resilience), who had taken over the latter's delegation, resigned in December 2021 for personal reasons.
In the same month, the deputy in charge of Europe Hermano Sanches Ruivo resigned after the opening of an investigation for suspicions of laundering tax fraud.
The ethics commission for elected Parisians had pointed out a conflict of interest between its public and private activities.
