The Senate voted Thursday in favor of maintaining the income of mayors on maternity leave. The decision corrected a blind spot in the law recently denounced by the councilor of Poitiers.
“Maternity leave cannot cause a net loss of resources. We must act to make the necessary feminization of local executive functions more concrete,” argued ecologist Monique de Marco. Many benches in the hemicycle expressed their annoyance, including within the Macronist group. The Minister for Communities, Dominique Faure, did not approve a measure to increase the pensions of local elected officials up to one quarter.