Europe 1 with AFP // Photo credit: Alain JOCARD / AFP 5:10 p.m., January 29, 2024
After the deputies, it was the senators who decided to increase the advance of mandate fees (AFM) by 700 euros per month. Until now, members of the Senate had a general monthly advance of 5,900 euros for mandate fees, the amount increased to 6,600 euros, according to the Senate website.
The senators have decided in recent weeks to increase the advance of mandate fees (AFM) by 700 euros per month, as the deputies recently did to a lesser extent, according to the report of a meeting of the Senate Bureau consulted Monday by AFP and revealed by Mediapart.
“To take into account the consequences of the inflationary context”
The Bureau of the upper house, the highest body of this assembly, noted in mid-November that this increase would be proposed from January 1, 2024, "to take into account the consequences of the inflationary context", according to the minutes of the meeting. While until then they had 5,900 euros per month in general advance of mandate fees, this amount increased to 6,600 euros, according to the Senate website consulted Monday by AFP. That’s an increase of 700 euros.
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These advances, duly controlled, concern the expenses of parliamentarians in the exercise of their mandate (local permanence, travel, documentation, representation, etc.). They are supplemented by specific advances, in particular for the Parisian accommodation of senators. For the latter, an increase of 300 euros was decided, bringing it to 1,500 euros monthly according to the Senate website. Having gone unnoticed, this decision resurfaced as the National Assembly decided, on Wednesday, to increase the AFM of deputies by a little more than 300 euros per month, bringing it to 5,950 euros.
This increase, voted by the Bureau of the Assembly with the support of all the political groups present at the time of the vote, except La France insoumise which had abstained, had provoked several political reactions, in particular from the National Rally, the latter in requesting the postponement after initially approving it. The socialist Valérie Rabault, absent during the vote, had expressed her reservations. The Union of Parliamentary Collaborators also denounced this decision.