The deputies fought again on Tuesday, July 8 on the issue of the remuneration of elected officials, and approved a decreasing increase in compensation of attached mayors by cities with less than 20,000 inhabitants, as part of the examination of a text on the state of the chosen official.
The deputies approved an amendment to the Government, slightly modified by the Law Commission, which establishes a decreasing increase in accordance with the size of the municipalities, from 10 to 4%. The Senatorial Origin Law must be approved as a whole in the first reading on Thursday or Friday.
Concentrate the increase in small municipalities
On Monday, the deputies had approved in the confusion an amendment that increased to the mayors in a decreasing way, by just less than 8% for the municipalities of less than 500 inhabitants, of around 1.4% for the municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants.
The Minister of Regional Planning and Decentralization, François Rebsamen, expressed the desire that the two measures were harmonized, which could lead to a second vote on the remuneration of the mayors.
The text in its senatorial version proposed a uniform increase of 10% for all municipalities. But the government, in unison with most parliamentarians, wanted to concentrate the increase in smaller municipalities, for the sake of savings.
Some rare voices have been raised against this increase, the deputy of Horizons Marie-Agnès Poussier-Winsback, for example, which considers the debates “completely on the ground”, while the government seeks 40 billion savings.
Voting a mandate for the local elected officials
The deputies also approved against the Government’s opinion an article that aims to grant a quarter of the retirement by mandate to local elected officials, to the limit of eight.
The Minister of Labor, Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, denounced a measure of “exorbitant customary law”, which consists of assigning “retirement rooms (…) without raising funds” and creating “a new position that aggravates the deficit of our retirement system of more than 45 million euros per year.”
The deputy Renaissance of the Renaissance Violette Sparrillbout, on the contrary, defended the measure, inspired by an advantage awarded to firefighters in 2023, and claimed by associations of elected officials, because many of them must put part -time, sometimes see (…) their career, promotions, promotions, because they do not refer in professional life in professional life and that spend a time of time.
Source: BFM TV
