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Girlfriends, cheating and stolen sunglasses: the 12 most embarrassing resignations of European politicians

2023-07-31 14:08:52Fokus SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Norwegian MP Bjørnar Moxnes at the glasses shop at Oslo airport, where he left without paying

It's not every day that a pair of sunglasses can cause your downfall. But that's what happened to a Norwegian left-wing party leader who was caught on camera stealing a pair of luxury glasses from Oslo airport.

The prestigious "Politico Europe" lists the 12 most shameful cases, where politicians, former prime ministers or representatives of the EU, have misused their office in corruption or sexual affairs that have cost them their position.

There are 12 absurd stories summarized below.

The Norwegian Spectacle Thief

Girlfriends, cheating and stolen sunglasses: the 12 most embarrassing
Norwegian Bjørnar Moxnes

"Galeotti" were a pair of sunglasses of the well-known brand "Hugo Boss". Norwegian MP Bjørnar Moxnes, leader of the left-wing Rodt party for a decade, slipped his suitcase into Oslo airport duty-free after removing the bar code tag. All under the eyes of a security camera: the images were published in mid-June by a Norwegian newspaper.

He was detained in Gardermoen after it was discovered that he had walked out of a shop at Oslo airport with expensive glasses that he hadn't paid for.

Moxnes tried to justify himself with a "it was an incident". He then had to admit the truth in a Facebook post: “Many people have asked me how I could have done such a stupid thing. I've asked myself this many times over the past few weeks. I don't have an adequate explanation." In addition to being arrested, Moxnes also lost his job: on July 24 he announced his resignation from his party post.

English and erotic videos

Girlfriends, cheating and stolen sunglasses: the 12 most embarrassing
Englishman Neil Parish

English Conservative MP Neil Parish deserves a place on the podium of the most absurd apologies. Last year, in April, he was caught watching an erotic video on his mobile phone in the middle of a House of Commons session.

At first he deemed it "a moment of madness", then he made up his mind that he had ended up on that page while searching for information about tractors on Google.

In the end he gave in and admitted that farming had nothing to do with him and that he had indeed been looking for that video. And goodbye to the Westminster seat.

French, airplanes and cigars

Girlfriends, cheating and stolen sunglasses: the 12 most embarrassing
Frenchman Aalain Joyandet

Spending €116,000 to charter a private jet to take you to a country that has just been devastated by an earthquake?

Alain Joyandet, then French Cooperation Minister, didn't think it was a bad idea when he was invited to a conference in Haiti a few weeks after the catastrophic January 2010 earthquake.

Joyandet (now senator) was forced to resign, as well as undersecretary Christan Blanc, when it was revealed that he had spent 12 thousand euros (publicly) on Cuban cigars.

Winston Churchill, by comparison, was a novice. Blanc even made a strange excuse: "I didn't smoke the cigars." Question: who smoked cigars then? Answer: "I have no idea."

Anti-evaders with companies in the Seychelles Islands

Girlfriends, cheating and stolen sunglasses: the 12 most embarrassing
French Jérôme Cahuzac

Champion of the fight against tax evasion and ends up convicted of fraud. Fate is cynical and deceitful, and former French Economy Minister Jérôme Cahuzac knows something about it.

Having built a reputation as one of the staunchest critics of tax evaders and tax havens, he ended up in a scandal in 2012 when it was revealed that he had a bank account in Switzerland for twenty years.

If that wasn't enough, in 2016, the Panama Papers revealed that he also owned a company in the Seychelles islands. From a member of the government, he ended up in prison and was sentenced to two years for tax fraud and money laundering.

Candidate "enjoy"

Girlfriends, cheating and stolen sunglasses: the 12 most embarrassing
Frenchman Benjamin Griveaux

We mentioned the case of Neil Parish above. In the same way belongs that of Benjamin Griveaux, close associate of Emmanuel Macron and candidate of La République En Marche for the post of mayor of Paris in 2020.

Griveaux didn't even make it to the polls. What brought him down were the explicit messages and photos he had sent to a woman (a detail: Griveaux was married with three children) and which in February of that year went viral on the Internet after Russian blogger Piotr Pavlenski had distributed them.

In 2021, Griveaux also vacated his seat in parliament and has since rebuilt his career in the private sector.

The Austrian and the niece of the oligarch

Girlfriends, cheating and stolen sunglasses: the 12 most embarrassing
Austrian Heinz-Christian Strache

Heinz-Christian Strache, Austrian vice-chancellor at the time of the scandal, which later went down in history as "Ibiza-Gate", blamed alcohol.

The matter was quite serious: in 2017, in the middle of the election campaign, Strache flew to Ibiza for vacation.

One evening he met a young Russian woman who introduced herself as the granddaughter of an oligarch and promised to invest in a newspaper and then move her into a line close to a right-wing party of her interlocutor.

Who in return assured him that he would favor him in awarding public contracts. Except that the woman was actually a journalist, but Strache didn't notice because he was drunk (so he later claimed).

The case arose in 2019: Strache was forced to resign and withdraw from politics, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz dissolved the government and called early elections.

Hungarians and gay parties

Girlfriends, cheating and stolen sunglasses: the 12 most embarrassing
Hungarian József Szájer

In this list of absurd episodes, the one with Yózsef Szájer deserves the pride of the list. The MEP, a long-time member of the Hungarian Fidesz party – led by Viktor Orbán – known for its conservative stances especially on the LGBTQ issue, had his career ended due to a rather unusual holiday.

On the evening of November 27, 2020, in complete isolation, Brussels police found 25 men involved in a group sexual encounter.

Szájer was found to have escaped, descending from the flat through a water pipe and when he was stopped in the street, officers found drugs in his rucksack. Orbán immediately removed him from political life."Unacceptable and indefensible".

The "involuntary" Spanish thief

Girlfriends, cheating and stolen sunglasses: the 12 most embarrassing
The Spanish Cristina Cifuentes

Fatal for Cristina Cifuentes was a face cream 40 euros. In 2018, the then president of the Community of Madrid was forced to leave her post after the release of a 2011 video in which she was filmed stealing cosmetics from a supermarket.

"An unintentional mistake," she argued, who then paid what was due. But when allegations surfaced shortly after that she had lied about her degree, she had no choice but to resign.

The Slovenian betrayed by a sandwich

Girlfriends, cheating and stolen sunglasses: the 12 most embarrassing
Slovenian Darij Krajcic

Not only Cifuentes and Moxnes were guilty of theft, but also Slovenian parliamentarian Darij Krajcic, guilty of stealing a sandwich in 2019.

In reality, he explained, he was conducting a social experiment: Annoyed by the fact that the clerks ignored him, he felt the urge to test for himself how effective the supermarket's security was.

The theft was not discovered locally, but colleagues asked him to resign (and pay for the stolen sandwich).

Farewell to the Commission

Girlfriends, cheating and stolen sunglasses: the 12 most embarrassing
Frenchman Jacques Santer

In this case, the step back was a group. In 1999, the entire European Commission then led by the Luxembourger, Jacques Santer, resigned after a report had illustrated the practices of "corruption, abuse of power and fraud" which had become a real practice.

In particular, the former French Prime Minister Edith Cresson ended up at the center of the scandal, who had relatives, friends and even her dentist hired for generously paid positions. The dentist remained on duty for 18 months, where he managed to produce a single document of 24 pages…

Malta and the lobbyist

Girlfriends, cheating and stolen sunglasses: the 12 most embarrassing
Maltese John Dalli

Sixty million euros: this is what an associate of John Dalli, then (it was 2012) the European Commissioner for Health, had promised a Swedish tobacco company in exchange for a commitment to repeal a law that prohibited the sale and use of "snus" -it, moist powdered tobacco, which is consumed by mouth.

Dalli claimed he was forced to resign by European Commission President José Manuel Barroso and sued him.

In 2019, the General Court of the European Union rejected the claim and with it the claim for damages.

Czech Republic: a rosy story with a happy ending

Girlfriends, cheating and stolen sunglasses: the 12 most embarrassing
Petr Necas and Jana Nagyova

This latest story could inspire a movie script. Czech Republic, 2013. Prime Minister Petr Necas was forced to resign after his chief of staff, Jana Nagyova, was accused of corruption and abuse of power.

Not only was the woman used to bribe MPs, but she had also instructed military intelligence to spy on Neca's wife. Yes: the prime minister and his associate were in love.

Neca lost his job and his wife, but every bad has a good: a few months later, he married his beloved Jana.

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