Question 17266 — defense

Summary

Mr. Aurélien Saintoul questions the Minister of the Armed Forces and Veterans about the information revealed by the press concerning the existence of a file listing the general officers candidates for the municipal elections as well as their affiliation or their political sensitivity. According to the press, a document established following the last municipal elections would list the candidate or elected general officers, specifying in particular their rank, their territorial assignment as well as their supposed political label. This revelation raises several questions. Indeed, the law of July 13, 2018 relating to military programming opened up new possibilities for soldiers to participate in elections in municipalities with less than 9,000 inhabitants. During the parliamentary debates, the deputies of La France insoumise had also expressed their reservations on this system leading to a distinction between mandates deemed compatible with military status and others which would not be. In this context, he asks why such a document would have been created and whether the CNIL was consulted for its opinion before its creation. He also wishes to know which authority ordered its creation, which services were responsible for its development and what objectives this was pursuing. census. He also asks on what legal basis the data relating to the political sensitivities or affiliations of the persons concerned would have been collected, processed or stored, even though political opinions constitute data particularly protected by law. Finally, he wants to know what has become of this file since its creation; if it is still kept by the ministry's services, whether it was communicated to other administrations or public authorities, which people had access to it and, if applicable, whether its destruction was ordered. Finally, he wishes to know if disciplinary measures have been taken since then, if it intends to take any and how it intends to prevent such irregularities from happening again.

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