A first place in the contested classification. Dominique de Vilepin is the former prime minister who costs France the most, according to the figures communicated by the Ministry of the Economy on September 15. “It’s false!” Dominique de Villepin plague at the BFMTV-RMC, on Thursday, September 25.
In 2024, the former head of government spent more than 207,000 euros on costs, including 198,805 euros on personnel expenses and 8,267 euros on expenses related to his car.
“The figures that came out in the press do not correspond to reality,” he defends.
“It’s false”
After leaving Matignon, a former prime minister currently benefits several notable advantages, such as having a company with driver, a private secretary for 10 years maximum and up to 67 years.
If these advantages are not assigned to former prime ministers who have equivalent support in the exercise of another mandate, the note is 4.5 million, including police protection.
Figures that raise Dominique de Villepin at the head of the old most expensive matignan tenants. “This is false and for a very simple reason,” replies the former prime minister.
“My driver comes from Matignon, so it is told in the figures he has. But many prime ministers have a driver that comes from the Interior Ministry and, therefore, are not counted in the figures that are given publicly,” he explains.
From Vilepin “pending” of the decision
The benefits of the life of the ancient prime ministers will soon end. Under the leadership of the new head of government. Sébastien Lecornu published on Wednesday, September 17, a decree that eliminates the latest advantages of “life” of the former prime ministers, which referred to the use of a vehicle and a driver, and police protection.
This decree signed by the Prime Minister will enter into force on January 1, 2026 and will be applied to the former prime ministers “to have left their functions more than ten years” and, therefore, to Dominique de Vilepin.
An end of the advantages to which the latter says it is favorable. “Today we cannot say the advantages enjoyed by the Ministers of the Interior, the Defense and certain ministers of justice. We applaud transparency, this allows the decision,” Dominique de Vilepin said.
Among the advantages he enjoys, the former head of government under Jacques Chirac indicates that he still has a secretariat in addition to his driver. “I am waiting for the decision that leads to the abolition of these secretariats about me,” he said.
According to an Elabe survey for BFMTV, 57% of French consider reducing the lifestyle of the State is a priority to reduce France’s debt. Quite back, then it reaches the fight against fiscal fraud (34%), the reduction of the expenditure linked to immigration (34%) or the fight against social fraud (28%).
Source: BFM TV
