A provision to “strengthen civic engagement.” Several senators have introduced an amendment to allow elected officials who have served a “full term” as a local “executive member,” such as a municipality, to need “two-fourths” less to benefit from a full pension.
Take into account the “workload” of mayors
In the current pension system, the electoral mandate does not constitute a professional activity and therefore does not open the right to housing in the strict sense. However, it allows you to contribute to a supplemental pension plan, with relatively small amounts at stake.
The 29,500 local elected officials who have retired thus receive an average supplementary pension of 1,300 euros a year, or 108 euros a month, according to figures from the Caisse des dépôts.
For the three senators from the European Social and Democratic Assembly (RDSE) group who have presented this text, this mechanism “does not sufficiently take into account the workload that the exercise of a mandate represents”, “especially when combined with A job”. .
Vocations crisis and increase in attacks
There is an urgent need to find new vocations, especially for the mayors of small municipalities. 56% of mayors have no intention of running for a new term in 2026 according to an Ifop survey. The increase in attacks (+15% increase in 2022) according to the Association of Mayors of France hardly makes you want to get involved.
In the Aube, a municipality even had to organize new elections at the end of January, without being able to replace the mayor, who resigned for health reasons.
This amendment must now pass under the caudine forks of the Social Affairs Committee which takes charge of the reform on Tuesday before possibly being discussed in the chamber.
Source: BFM TV
