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Deputies, senators, ministers, if you think you have time, be a member of the parents’ association, help with homework, distribute meals at the Restos du coeur or go on marauding trips with the Croix- Red.
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It’s a little retro fashion, at the moment, an argument in vogue among elected officials and commentators – including myself – who knew the old world, that of the Gargantua of power, of the great elected officials, of the great personalities, ravenous for talent, local and national monsters. This old new idea, here it is: we must come back to the non-cumulation of mandates. The figure of the Minister of the Interior-mayor of Marseille, the deputy-mayor, the senator-mayor, the president of the region-senator or the president of the general council (today “departmental”) has disappeared thanks to the laws successive to reduce the possibilities of accumulating mandates.
Before 1985, there were no limits. We could accumulate everything, pile everything up without shame. It was the era of arch-cumulative baron potentates. The pinnacle of the accumulation of titles, functions and compensation was undoubtedly reached by Jacques Chirac, famous for his gigantic appetite in all things. Judge for yourself: in 1979, Jacques Chirac was mayor of Paris, president of the General Council of Corrèze (so he was at the t
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