23 of the budget for human resources and 0

As Mayor of Vanves (27,000 inhabitants), Vice-President of the communauté d ' agglomération Arc-de-Seine and former Vice-President of the General Council of Hauts-de-Seine, the current debate on the reform of local and regional authorities leads me to make a few personal reflections.

It is clear that missions of each territorial community should be clarified to conclude with the French administrative Yarrow. The general jurisdiction clause must be the prerogative of the common sole and duplicates between communities must cease to increase their effectiveness.

As it lies, the reorganization of the public authorities will have consequences for elected officials. The subject is undoubtedly explosive. Thus, the creation of the territorial Adviser, to Midway's General Counsel and regional, would tend to reduce by two the number of elected officials. Is this really the meaning of a democracy of sacrificing its representatives

For my part, I don't the think not. Need to remove territorial levels, it seems to me inconceivable do away with the policy which occupies it. At a time where the bodies of local participation, but also new forms of citizen activism grow, elected representatives are essential democratic life and the debate interlocutors and they must not be collateral victims of a legitimate desire for modernization.

Reduction of the number of elected representatives would not cost savings result. Contrary to received wisdom, the amount of the benefits of local elected representatives is derisory face to what they do on a daily basis. The French elected 500,000 are a richness for our country, and they discharge their civic duties often volunteer cropping on their free time and family life. Indicative for Vanves, indemnities received by elected officials represent 1.23 of the budget for human resources, and 0.80 of the general budget of the commune.

With regard to mayors, real "slaves of the Republic", their benefits are minimal involvement and commitment in their function. One hundred hours a week, seven days a week, a role manager submitted multiple pressures, liability full answer and defence civil as criminal committed at all times, a precarious contract renewable every six years for average 641 euros gross per month for a city of less than 500 inhabitants, and 3.394 EUR gross monthly for a town of 20,000 to 49.999 inhabitants. With respectively 2 billion and 1.7 billion of budget to manage to Paris and Marseille, the mayors of these cities should be able to collect more than 8,000 gross euros in compensation.

Similarly, the primary anti-parliamentarian in recent months of wanting to opprobrium on the benefits of national elected representatives is moved. The pressures and temptations, the independence of the policies is not price and in a democracy, the vote of citizens is the only measure to justify if their work and their earnings worth. In addition, wages of tenors from political life are worlds away from those of a large number of business leaders. What the better paid officials earns in a month is often less to what can be a CEO in a day.

Unfortunately, a wind of populism on our country, and it would have systematically the elected representatives of the wealthy to strengthen their privileges, including running multiple mandates. Rather than having judgments to cookie-cutter on the overlapping of mandates, but need to ask the reasons for this good French.

Beyond to increase his power in the field of public action, the reality is that the political men and women become "moonlighters", because they have, quite rightly, the wish to obtain a fee equivalent to the weight of their responsibilities. If elected, and in particular the mayors, were paid to work they provide, they are certainly not highest-ranking functions. The figures speak for themselves: 577 members and 331 senators, 269 and 133 are mayors.

The debate on the accumulation of mandates celebrated in the press for some time. A man a mandate: why not! But as long as each mandate be compensated at fair value, as is the case in other European countries.

The financial weight of the elect pales against that of the cost of administrative irrationality and the bureaucracy. Ironically, the current debate to reflect a fair sharing of benefits that would end the hypocrisy to the overlapping of functions. The truth is that there will be no territorial reform without reform of the status of elected officials in General.

At the same time, a better organisation of the authorities would identify public funds for better pay also currently injured deserving officials by a system of little flexible promotion, extreme slow and not to personal investment.

The fair price of our local democracy depends on streamlining the administration of the financial policy independence and fair distribution of benefits and responsibilities between the elected representatives.