An LR candidate in the North will donate 10% of his deputy's allowance

• The first round of legislative elections will take place on June 12.

• In the 4th district of the North, an LR-UDI candidate has already entered the campaign.

• His first measure if he is elected would be to donate 10% of his deputy's allowance to local associations.

The second round of the presidential election has not yet passed and the legislative candidates are already entering the campaign.

Not surprising, especially since the deadline is near, June 12.

The setback suffered by LR two weeks ago, leaving Valérie Pécresse on the straw, further motivates the right-wing party to rebuild itself within the National Assembly.

To be elected deputies, some LR candidates do not hesitate to make unusual promises.

Like Sébastien Leblanc, "almost invested" in the 4th district of the North.

At 33, Sébastien Leblanc has just entered the campaign for the legislative elections in the 4th district of the North which includes, in particular, part of Lille and the commune of Saint-André, of which he is a municipal councilor.

Close to Marc-Philippe Daubresse, tenor of LR, the candidate goes there under the LR-UDI label even before having been officially invested: “The president of the party, Christian Jacob, told me that the nomination was acquired , following a global agreement with the president of the UDI Jean-Christophe Lagarde ”, assures Sébastien Leblanc at

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A generous gesture on a very generous salary

However, the 30-year-old has already drawn his “first campaign proposal” via a press release sent to the press.

"From July, in order to promote the dynamism of the sports, cultural, social and charitable fabric of the 4th district of the North, I will donate every month 10% of my personal allowance as a deputy to the benefit of the associations of the territory" , he wrote.

A very generous proposal about which

wanted to obtain details.

According to the person concerned, these 10% will be calculated on the basis of the gross monthly allowance of 7,239.91 euros, or 723.99 euros.

This would still leave him with a salary of 4955.72 euros net once social security contributions and the 10% deducted.

We can already imagine the gossips shouting that he could do more, arguing that the average salary in France is around 2,400 euros net per month.

Some do, like François Ruffin, elected deputy for the Somme in 2017, who keeps 1,200 euros to live on the total of his parliamentary allowance, donating the rest to associations and taxes.

For the restoration of the parliamentary reserve

While it is true that the amount may seem anecdotal when looking at the month, it is less over the entire duration of the mandate.

In five years, this represents nearly 44,000 euros.

Admittedly, this is not enough to build a new football pitch, but the candidate sees it rather as a symbol, and an opportunity to tackle the outgoing LREM deputy: “This measure aims to compensate for the abolition of the parliamentary reserve voted by MP Brigitte Liso, in 2017”.

This same argument had also been put forward by the deputy LR Julien Dive after his election in the Somme in 2017, except that he was limited to putting "every month 200 to 400 euros aside".

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This famous "parliamentary reserve", abolished in 2017, consisted of a sum of money (130,000 euros on average per parliamentarian in 2016) that deputies and senators could use at their discretion, for example to finance local equipment or subsidize associations. .

Big money, therefore, the use of which was sometimes deemed opaque and clientelist.

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