Ex-employees testify how Assita Kanko (N-VA) treated them like ‘vassals’: “I had to carry her handbag”

“I had to go to the dry cleaner, carry her purse and play her driver.” When the flamboyant Assita Kanko switched from MR to the N-VA at the end of 2018, it seemed an ideal transfer for the Flemish nationalists. But four years later, the picture looks less rosy, and doubt about her future is creeping into the party ranks. Our journalist spoke to four ex-employees about Kanko’s diva behavior: “The working weeks in Strasbourg were hellish.”

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