The mayor of Paris plans to reshuffle his team after the departure of the socialist Jacques Galvani, too taken by the new company he directs.
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Six months after the departure of Célia Blauel, important assistant of the municipal team, Anne Hidalgo loses a new member of her team at the town hall of Paris. Jacques Galvani, 53, assistant in charge of people with disabilities, has just submitted his mandate available to the socialist councilor. “The end of my assistant mission must still be ratified by the prefect of Ile-de-France, specifies the interested party. She should take effect by the end of the month, and at the latest at the next council of Paris, early July. “
The departure of Jacques Galvani is not linked to a political disagreement, rather to his wish to return full time to the world of the business, after a foray into that of politics. “It’s a matter of workload,” he sums up.
In 2020, this enarch of the same promotion as Edouard Philippe, a time secretary general of the Think Tank Les Gracques, had accessed his first political mandate. Elected Paris Councilor on Anne Hidalgo’s list in 18 e arrondissement, he had been appointed assistant in stride. This former McKinsey, Lagardère and Casino had then retained a professional activity in an innovation firm, Schoolab, whom he considered compatible with his elected role.
But since January, Jacques Galvani has become general manager of Atlante, a heavier responsibility. This new subsidiary of the NHOA group, which itself belongs to Taiwan Cement Corporation, one of the main Taiwanese industrial conglomerates, wants to install a network of rapid charging stations for electric vehicles. Objective: 35,000 terminals installed in Europe in 2030. For the time being, everything remains to be done, and Jacques Galvani has the first mission to set up the team.
“It is an extremely engaging work, he explains. It was no longer reasonable to lead it at the same time as my post of assistant, especially since when approaching the Olympic Games and Paralympic of 2024, accessibility becomes an increasingly heavy subject. It is not cheerful at heart, but I informed Anne Hidalgo that I had to lift my foot. “If he intends to stay in Paris, And participate in the advice that held every month and a half, he no longer thinks possible to keep his role as assistant.
Giving political momentum
On the occasion of this departure, Anne Hidalgo plans to reshape her team. In July 2020, just after his re-election at the town hall of Paris, the socialist councilor had unveiled an extra-long list of thirty-seven assistants, a subject of mockery for the opposition. Since then, four of these assistants have already left their duties. Anne Hidalgo first dismissed her culture manager and friend Christophe Girard, implicated for her ties with the writer accused of pedocriminel acts Gabriel Matzneff. Then the assistant in charge of the Seine, Pierre Aidenbaum, was forced to resign after accusations of rape, in November 2020. In November 2021, the former environmentalist Célia Blauel, in charge of the prospective Paris 2030, chose to leave her post, which she considered too heavy. The following month, finally, the assistant in charge of Europe, Hermano Sanches Ruivo, resigned from his duties after the opening of an investigation for suspicions of whitening tax fraud.
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