Mandate fees for French elected officials cause scandal in Sweden
Thanks to François Grøssbåff for the translation 
A Franco-Scandinavian reader sent us a video taken from a Swedish TV show.
This excerpt shows us Swedish political scientists scandalized by the allowances representative of the expenses of mandate (IRFM) which receive, in addition to their salary, French deputies and senators (5 euros per month for a deputy and 884,91 euros for a senator).
The Swedes are surprised that there is no control over the use of these funds.
Each deputy and senator spends as he sees fit the allowance representative of the expenses of mandate, without proof to be provided or control. Since April 2010, no Member has had the courage to table the draft bill for IRFM control. In this context, Bernard Accoyer, the President of the National Assembly, refused to meet with taxpayers.
Without knowing it, a Danish analyst makes
the same proposal as Contribuables Associés: replace the current IRFM system, perverse and obscure, with that of expense reports, as is done both in private business and in the British Parliament.
At the end of each month, the parliamentarian would send the financial services an expense report accompanied by all the supporting documents for the expenses. An expenditure not justified with regard to the exercise of the parliamentary mandate would be rejected by the services in question. And the appropriations not consumed in relation to the ceiling would be donated to the treasury of each assembly.
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