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Illustration of former President Valery Giscard d’Estaing. – Stephanie Pilick / AP / SIPA

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Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, the former president who is the most expensive in the budget of the state, with 2.5 million euros a year, ahead of Nicolas Sarkozy (2.2 million) and Jacques Chirac (1.5 million), according to a new assessment of PS deputy René Dosière from departmental data.

6 million euros per year, the cost of past presidents

“Over six million euros per year, the total cost to be borne by the State of former presidents, “wrote on his blog René Dosière, longtime Elysée budget specialist. This budget does not include the monthly salary of former presidents (about 6,000 euros) or the monthly pay of a member of the Constitutional Council (12,000 euros) that VGE is the only one touch.

The member of the Aisne recalled that the former president is set to status “solely on the basis of a personal letter” in 1985 by Laurent Fabius, then Prime Minister, to VGE. Former presidents have a furnished corporate apartment in whose service are assigned two people. They are entitled to two police officers for their close protection, a company car with two drivers and seven permanent employees.

According to a Matignon response of 13 January to a written question from René Dosière, operating expenses (mainly leases apartments) accounted in 2014 an expenditure of 343,307 euros for VGE, 309,342 euros to 242,816 euros and Nicolas Sarkozy to Jacques Chirac. Staff costs are borne by the ministries by providing these collaborators

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The MP proposes that expenses for former presidents are limited to five years

In addition, Eric Dosière still awaits response of the Ministry of Interior on the cost of securing the homes of former heads of state. Pending this response, the hon including its assessment on the basis of a Senate report which stated that 15 policemen were mobilized in 2010 full-time to keep the private residence of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing in Authon (Loir -and-Cher) and 6 for the Jacques Chirac Bity (Corrèze), an annual cost of respective 1.1 and 0.4 million according to the member (70,000 euros a policeman). The cost of security Nicolas Sarkozy it would amount to about 700,000 euros.

To reduce this “high level of spending,” the MP proposes several tracks, including a decree provides for the expenses incurred by the state. They “should be limited to a period of 5 years” and “exclusive of any private compensation – with the exception of intellectual activities (eg books) – and a leading political activity.”