“
It was not a pleasant time.
We had the feeling of being left behind.
We saw our ministers almost every day, but without being able to do anything.
At least I had time to go clubbing
!
» This deputy director of a ministerial office retains a bitter taste of the interminable wait for the reshuffle, at the start of 2024. It took an unprecedented period of one month for Emmanuel Macron and Gabriel Attal, between January and February , to appoint a full government.
A period all the more difficult to live through for the ministers' collaborators left in uncertainty as their contracts ended when the previous Borne team resigned.
Without pay, they had to report to France Travail (formerly Pôle Emploi) while awaiting the presidential verdict.
“
I lost about a month's salary
,” calculates one of those concerned, who finally found a position in the same ministry.
Splendors and miseries of shadow advisors.
These graduates who, in the offices of the Élysée, Matignon or the ministries, are active around those who embody power, through cabinet meetings, notes written every kilometer and negotiations to win arbitrations.
Positions that offer the adrenaline sought by those who want to experience the frenzy of political life from the inside.
But the “job,” as they call it, is not without risk.
If they are meant to remain in the shadows, some may find themselves…
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