A desire to strengthen the attractiveness of the status of local elected officials?
The Minister Delegate in charge of Local Authorities, Dominique Faure, said she was in favor of a “legislative development” to “allow elected officials to take their leave without loss of compensation”, in a letter to the mayor of Poitiers.
Environmentalist councilor Léonore Moncond'huy announced on February 12 her intention to take maternity leave from March 15 to May 15, deploring the loss of income linked to this absence.
The president of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF), David Lisnard (LR), denounced a “scandalous” situation.
Upcoming legislative proposals
At present, communities cannot supplement the daily allowances paid by Social Security for elected officials who have ceased all professional activity in order to exercise their mandate, recalls Dominique Faure in his letter, dated February 23.
“A legislative development, which will be carried out by the government within the framework of the legislative proposals relating to the status of elected representatives which will soon be submitted to Parliament, is therefore necessary,” writes the minister.
“We will thus give a clear sign of our desire to allow elected officials to take their leave without loss of compensation,” she continues.
This question should be addressed during future broader parliamentary debates around the creation of a more attractive status for local elected officials.
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A bill was tabled in the Assembly by Renaissance MP Violette Spillebout and Communist MP Sébastien Jumel.
A senatorial text also aiming to “create a status for local elected officials” must be debated in the hemicycle of the upper house.
The president of the Assembly's law committee Sacha Houlié (Renaissance), elected from Vienne, has undertaken to table an amendment to “correct the inequality” brought to light by the mayor of Poitiers.