AUDIT · INSTITUTIONS ·
Institutions: financial audit of all 20 measures in category 01
All twenty institutional measures now have a current public benchmark, a consistency check and an explicit rule governing whether — and how — they can enter the multi-year simulator.
— Business, procurement, public service and constitutional review
The current doctrine adds four cross-cutting workstreams: simple 15–30% corporate taxation, CIR abolition and anti-avoidance, sovereign public procurement with AI controls and a markup ceiling, public-service pay and integrity, and abolition/replacement of the Constitutional Council.
What this release changes
Rule: a ceiling or mechanical calculation is a consistency test, not an automatic net saving. Figures that still require work are described by the documentary step needed to consolidate them.
All twenty measures and their financial treatment
The public dataset and the detailed audit notes are now fully bilingual. The French and English pages use the same figures, source provenance, deduplication rules and simulator treatment.
| Measure | Plan effect | Current reference | Public consolidation note | Simulator treatment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.01 Reduce the National Assembly from 577 to 125 members, at least one per department | €432–467m per year | 2026 National Assembly budget: €644.01m; 577 members. | Fixed and variable costs still need to be separated; the mechanical ceiling is not a net saving. | Do not automatically inject the upper end of the range before a full cost breakdown. |
| 1.02 Reduce the Senate from 348 to 125 senators | €232–250m per year | 2026 Senate budget: €382.3m; 348 senators. | Separate senator-linked expenditure, permanent staff, property costs and residual commitments. | Keep as a parameterised scenario, not as an automatic saving. |
| 1.03 Reduce the government to nine full ministries and abolish delegated ministers | €90–180m per year | In 2026, the legal ceiling allows up to 14 cabinet members for a full minister and 8 for a delegated minister (with a specific exception for Relations with Parliament). | Separate cabinet savings, political functions, support functions and any reorganisation costs. | Model only after headcount/cost inventory; deduplicate against measure 1.08. |
| 1.04 Mandatory parliamentary attendance with automatic financial penalties | €150m per year | Absence-related deductions already exist: at the National Assembly, some committee absences can trigger a 25% deduction from the functional allowance; in the Senate, Rule 23 bis allows deductions up to the quarterly amount of the functional allowance. | The financial effect depends on future behaviour; the primary objective is attendance, not revenue generation. | Do not inject €150m as a deterministic saving; simulate only once the proposed rules are precisely defined. |
| 1.05 Halve parliamentary staff allowances | €85m per year | National Assembly 2026: €83.80m for parliamentary staff credits including payroll charges. Senate 2025: €68.283m subsidy to AGAS, alongside ancillary resources. | The €85m figure can now be compared with official envelopes; the next step is to harmonise the reference year and account for termination/transition costs. | Build low/central scenarios after scope harmonisation; avoid double counting with 1.01 and 1.02. |
| 1.06 Abolish the 1,758 regional councillor seats | €350m per year | DGCL 2025: 1,921 regional and territorial councillors on the broad perimeter, including single territorial authorities. 2026 scale: up to €2,877.37 gross/month for a regional councillor in a region of at least 3 million inhabitants. | The €350m figure cannot represent allowances alone: associated institutional costs must be itemised separately and the 1,758/1,921 perimeter must be fixed. | Do not inject €350m as one block; model allowances + assembly costs + support functions, with territorial deduplication. |
| 1.07 Reduce departmental councillors by 50 percent | €180m per year | DGCL 2025: 4,041 departmental councillors. 2026 scale: maximum base allowance up to €2,877.37 gross/month depending on population. | The €180m target assumes a broader scope than allowances alone; assembly and support costs must be inventoried and overlaps removed. | Model by component, not with a single percentage. |
| 1.08 Limit ministerial cabinets to ten members | €120m per year | Since October 2025, the legal ceiling is 14 cabinet members for a full minister and 8 for a delegated minister; the Plan target is 10. | The measure becomes directly costable once cabinet headcount and remuneration are consolidated. | Strictly deduplicate against the reduction in the number of ministries under 1.03. |
| 1.09 Strict ban on holding multiple local executive mandates | €200m per year | The 2014 organic law already bars the combination of a parliamentary mandate with many local executive offices. | Define the operational perimeter before costing so that no saving is attributed to a prohibition already in force. | Consolidate the budget effect only after the residual perimeter is defined. |
| 1.10 Cap combined allowances at 150 percent of the main mandate | €80m per year | Local elected-official allowances are already governed by separate statutory scales according to mandate, function and population. | Build a microsimulation of combined allowances before including €80m in a consolidated total. | Microsimulation; deduplicate against 1.09, 1.19 and seat-reduction measures. |
| 1.11 Reduce municipal councillors by about 30 percent | €250m per year | DGCL 2025: 484,662 municipal councillors. A reduction of about 30% corresponds to roughly 145,399 seats on that count. | Reconcile the €250m estimate with municipal accounts: allowances actually paid, meeting costs, training, insurance, logistics and support functions. | Do not inject automatically; build a model by municipality population band. |
| 1.12 Abolish the national Economic, Social and Environmental Council | €36m per year | 2026 CESE appropriations: €34.1m. | The live model will use the 2026 benchmark without rewriting the historical Plan figure. | Cap the scenario at the current envelope, then subtract transition costs. |
| 1.13 Abolish the 13 regional economic, social and environmental councils | €75m per year | Law caps a CESER member’s allowance at 45% of the maximum allowance of a regional councillor in the same region; the chair is capped at 50% of the maximum allowance of the regional president. | Break the €75m estimate into allowances, staff, operating costs and shared costs. | Do not inject before region-by-region aggregation. |
| 1.14 Full transparency of public remuneration on a dedicated platform | Structural effect | Transparency measure: it first creates a disclosure obligation and a public information infrastructure. | Cost implementation separately; any audit/control savings should be measured ex post. | Structural effect, excluded from the savings total until a net effect is observed. |
| 1.15 Cap public remuneration at six times the gross minimum wage | €320m per year | Gross monthly minimum wage from 1 June 2026: €1,867.02. Six times the minimum wage equals €11,202.12 gross/month (€134,425.44 gross/year), before defining the remuneration perimeter. | Define the assessment base and responsibility-related exceptions precisely before consolidating the €320m figure. | HR microsimulation; deduplicate against 1.20. |
| 1.16 End lifetime close protection for former presidents | €5m per year | A written parliamentary question published on 21 July 2026 specifically asks the Government for the 2023–2026 cost of resources and protection provided to former presidents. | The €5m figure remains an estimate to consolidate until recent official data are published; security arrangements should remain threat-assessment based. | Do not inject automatically; update as soon as an official answer is published. |
| 1.17 Reduce the presidential budget and ensure full transparency | €30m per year | 2026 Presidency appropriation: €122.56m. | Separate staff, travel, security, property, investment and transferable functions before calculating a net saving. | Parameterised scenario; avoid unrecorded cost transfers. |
| 1.18 End subsidies for parliamentary restaurants and bars | €12m per year | Senate 2025 accounts: total restaurant subsidy €987,160, including €123,325 for the senators’ restaurant and €863,835 for staff restaurants. National Assembly catering services charge members, but a comparable net-cost perimeter still needs to be isolated. | Publish net cost by establishment and beneficiary category before consolidating the target. | Do not inject €12m as one block; include only verified net subsidies. |
| 1.19 Remove benefits in kind not justified by security | €180m per year | “Benefits in kind” cover multiple schemes and public employers; some are function- or security-related. | Build a scheme register before costing; justified security arrangements remain outside the removal scope. | Mandatory deduplication against 1.16, 1.18 and mandate-related expenses. |
| 1.20 Harmonise and cap senior civil-service allowance schemes | €450m per year | RIFSEEP includes the IFSE and CIA components and coexists with specific allowance/bonus systems for certain civil-service corps. | Define the base, target caps and transitional/acquired-right rules before consolidation. | HR microsimulation; deduplicate against the overall remuneration cap under 1.15. |
Four immediate findings
Parliamentary staff. The 2026 National Assembly budget identifies €83.80m for staff credits including related payroll charges. The Senate's 2025 accounts record €68.283m for AGAS. A mechanical 50% check is about €76m, but years, scope and transition costs still need harmonisation.
Regional and departmental seats. 2026 legal indemnity ceilings show that the Plan's €350m and €180m figures cannot be read as allowances alone. The next layer will therefore isolate broader assembly and support costs while preventing overlap with territorial reforms elsewhere in the Plan.
Attendance and multiple mandates. Existing law already contains absence-related financial penalties and major incompatibility rules. The Plan's additional effect must therefore be measured against current law.
Parliamentary restaurants. The Senate's 2025 accounts identify a €987,160 restaurant subsidy in total, including €123,325 for the senators' restaurant. A comparable net perimeter for the Assembly and bars must be built before the Plan's €12m figure is consolidated.
Machine-readable data
institutional audit — JSON · CSV · Public index of all 155 measures.