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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