Privileges of the former prime ministers: the decree that ends with the advantages of “life” published in the official magazine

Sébastien Lecornu published on Wednesday, September 17, a decree promised on Monday, eliminating the latest advantages of “life” of former prime ministers, which referred to the use of a vehicle and a driver, and police protection.

“The decree limits ten years since the cessation of functions in the period during which the prime ministers benefit from a company vehicle and a car driver,” reads this decree dated September 16 and published Wednesday in the official magazine.

This decree signed by the Prime Minister will enter into force on January 1, 2026 and will apply to the former prime ministers “to have left their functions more than ten years.”

The prime ministers who have left their duties for more than ten years are Manuel Valls (Party December 6, 2016) and all his predecessors: Jean-Marc Ayrault (March 31, 2014), François Fillon (May 15, 2012) or Dominique de Vilepin (May 17, 2007).

Driver, secretariat, police protection …

The new decree modifies a previous text taken by the Prime Minister of the time of Édouard Philippe of September 20, 2019 that stipulated that the State was in charge of related expenses “to a” service vehicle and a car driver “, without limitation in time.

But this advantage does not apply to the former prime ministers who have a company vehicle for the exercise of a parliamentary mandate, a local elected official mandate or a public service.

The new decree is not related to the provision of former prime ministers, “at the request of your application”, an “agent for its private secretariat” that had already been limited in 2019 to ten years from the end of its functions already more late to sixty -seven years. “

The prime minister also sent an instruction dated Monday – AFP was able to consult the Directorate of the National Police (DGPN) to review the police protection enjoyed by the old Tenants of Matignon.

They can benefit “for three years from the end of their functions” and can be renewed “after a security evaluation.” This provision will also be applied as of January 1, 2026.