Question 17867 — elected officials

Summary

Mr. Laurent Furst draws the attention of the Minister of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities to the ban imposed by the NOTRe law on paying official allowances to executives of “restricted” municipal unions and mixed unions whose scope is less than that of an EPCI with its own taxation, from January 1, 2020. This provision, which immediately seems contrary to the principle of free administration of communities, also poses a problem with regard to the skills which are not intended to be transferred to the EPCI. This is particularly the case for intermunicipal school unions created by a few municipalities wishing to pool their resources within the framework of the implementation of their educational competence, within much larger intermunicipalities. In this case, the transfer of this competence to the intermunicipalities would be detrimental to both the existence of municipalities and their groups, and the elimination of office allowances for executives of this nature still tends to discredit elected officials who are involved in the daily management of these unions. In addition, the legal responsibility linked to these functions requires elected officials to take out insurance; we therefore create a situation where we have to pay to have the right to work, which is largely demotivating and even humiliating. While the President of the Republic reaffirmed during his speech to the mayors of France on November 22, 2018 the attachment and consideration he had for them, while as an extension of the project launched by the national conference of territories, the delegation of the Senate to local authorities presented an in-depth study on the conditions for exercising mandates local authorities, while the delegation of the National Assembly has undertaken similar work with the Association of Mayors of France, he asks it if it would not be appropriate to bring the legislation back to more common sense, confidence and consideration for local elected officials, by returning to these ubiquitous provisions.

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