Question 17680 — State

Summary

Mr. Gérard Leseul draws the attention of the Prime Minister to the conditions of application of the rules relating to the material and human resources from which former Prime Ministers may benefit, as well as to the risks of circumvention of these rules by the attribution of specific missions or functions. Decree No. 2019-973 of September 20, 2019 relating to the situation of former Prime Ministers provided in particular for the updating of provision, at their request, of a company vehicle and a car driver, with the State covering the related expenses. This system was modified by Decree No. 2025-965 of September 16, 2025, which limited the duration during which a former Prime Minister can benefit from these means to ten years from the cessation of office. Former Prime Ministers who left office more than ten years ago should therefore cease to benefit from it no later than January 1, 2026. However, the information recently made public concerning the situation of Mr. Jean-Pierre Raffarin raises questions about the possibility, for a former Prime Minister no longer meeting the conditions provided for by the decree, of benefiting again, directly or indirectly, from a vehicle and a driver financed by the State under a mission entrusted to him by a administration or a member of the Government. If such a situation were to prove true, it would raise a significant difficulty with regard to the spirit of the 2025 reform. Indeed, the objective of the latter was precisely to put an end to material advantages whose duration could appear disproportionate with regard to the effective exercise of public functions. The one-off or lasting attribution of a mission cannot have the consequence of reestablishing, under another administrative classification, an advantage to which the person concerned is no longer eligible pursuant to the decree. He therefore asks him to please specify under what conditions a former Prime Minister who has ceased to benefit from the means provided for by Decree No. 2019-973 can be assigned a mission, a function or a representation by the State giving right to the provision of a vehicle with driver and what rules govern such a decision. He also asks him to specify whether checks are carried out in order to verify that the attribution of a public mission to a former Prime Minister responds to a real need of the administration and does not constitute a means of maintaining or indirectly re-establishing material advantages to which the person concerned can no longer claim.

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