PARLIAMENTARY RESERVES 136 MILLION EUROS THE COST OF CLIENTELISM

The National Assembly and the Senate will unveil in a few days the distribution of parliamentary reservation, which allows parliamentarians to subsidize "community investment". A parliamentarian is a legislator, not a boss of public money!

One billion euros for 8 years, almost 136 million euros a year, 130,000 per deputy and senator and more for high offices Parliamentary reserve squanders tax annual income of 33,000 family’s subject!

For Eudes Baufreton, CEO of Associated Taxpayers, "the role of a parliamentarian is to vote the law, control government action and evaluate public policies, not to distribute the money of French investments in often patronage, making and campaign at taxpayer expense. In the current context of fiscal overkill of French on one hand, but also the need to reduce public spending (56% of GDP) on the other hand, it is essential to eliminate the costly and unnecessary parliamentary reservation".

The investment and subsidizing of associations and local authorities should not be provided by the parliamentarians who are elected national and not local. MPs and senators should focus on their role as legislators.

While parliamentarians are frequently absent from the chamber, taxpayers may regret their haste to distribute public money, which is money from all the French.