ELECTED OFFICIALS WHO HIRE WIVES HUSBANDS AND CHILDRE

A survey of Mediapart, 20% of French MPs have paid one or more family members. Is legal in France, but controversial.

In France, members can enroll up to 5 assistants. Assistants they must obligatorily mention in a statement of interest, set up in 2014, following the scandal of the Cahuzac affair. These public lists were peeled by several media, including the website Mediapart. They prove particularly at least 115 deputies hired as associate a son, a daughter, a wife. Is twice times more in proportion found among the senators by investigators of the Eye of the 20 hours of France 2 in September 2014.

“The Assembly paid 52 wives, 28 daughters and 32 sons of MPs" headlined the website Mediapart shock in its report released in July 2014, from declarations of interest still in force and posted on the Assembly website .

Even if the arguments of members who use it are legion to minimize family jobs, others put the hola and recognize that it can disturb. If they are not many in the Bourbon Palais, the centrist Charles de Courson, told France 2 in September 2014, is one of them: "This supports the idea from a portion of the electorate that parliamentarians are not there to serve their country but to line their pockets. It’s like that even if it's wrong. And so I say that the protection of parliamentarians, it would say 'no, it is forbidden.' This is what the European Parliament. " Among the long list of MPs interviewed by Mediapart, alone UMP Étienne Blanc said he was "rather favorable to a ban, as the European Parliament".