Before the municipal elections, Parliament definitively adopts a textual content in favor of native elected officers | EUROtoday

Less than 100 days earlier than the municipal elections, Parliament definitively adopted, on Monday December 8, a invoice to encourage the dedication of native elected officers with, amongst different measures, a rise of their compensation. As in committee, the deputies voted with out modification for this transpartisan invoice which got here to them from the Senate on second studying, by 109 votes to zero. All teams voted in favor, except for La France insoumise (LFI), which abstained.

Remuneration, pensions, assist for elected officers, maternity or sick depart, post-mandate reintegration… The textual content proposes a complete vary of measures to facilitate the dedication of elected officers. Some “450 mayors resign each year under the weight of responsibilities, moral pressure, violence, but also because reconciling a local mandate, family life and professional activity has become too difficult, if not impossible”argued the Minister of Regional Planning, Françoise Gatel.

One of the flagship measures is the rise within the compensation of mayors and their deputies: parliamentarians have opted to extend that of elected officers from the smallest municipalities (lower than 20,000 inhabitants), with a lowering system extra favorable to very small municipalities. Thus, the utmost month-to-month workplace allowance for a mayor of a municipality of two,000 inhabitants can be set at 2,290 euros, in comparison with 2,121 presently. The price of the measure would quantity to between 50 and 55 million euros for the mayors, in keeping with M’s entourage.^me Gatel.

The Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, additionally introduced on November 20 on the congress of mayors that he was learning the thought of ​​a bonus of 500 euros per 12 months for every, which doesn’t seem within the textual content.

Clarifying the notion of battle of curiosity

Another article supplies for granting a further quarter of retirement per mandate to native elected officers, with a restrict of three quarters. The textual content additionally intends to facilitate the reconciliation between the train of the mandate and that of an expert exercise, by doubling the period of the “elective leave” for candidates who’re head of the checklist in native elections, bringing it to twenty days.

It additionally extends the scope of actions giving entitlement to reimbursement of childcare prices for native elected officers, and creates a standing of “the chosen student”. The granting of purposeful safety has been made computerized for all native elected officers who’re victims of violence, threats or insults as a result of their capabilities.

The textual content seeks to make clear the notion of battle of curiosity, a delicate level for native elected officers in addition to for voters, particularly when an elected official sits in two communities referred to as upon to determine on the identical deliberation, or when he’s a member of a neighborhood and of a company on which this neighborhood should determine. The “rebellious” MP Elisa Martin expressed her questions relating to a “new wording of the conflict of interest”justifying LFI’s reservations on the textual content.

The authorities’s goal is to publish the decrees implementing the regulation earlier than the municipal elections in March, in keeping with the minister’s entourage.