Is it possible to be the mayor of the fourth largest city in France and at the same time occupy a senior civil servant position in Bercy? Jean-Luc Moudenc, mayor of Toulouse, responds “Yes”. The Anticor association, it ticks a little. How our colleagues from Mediacité work this Wednesdaythe anti-corruption organization translated a report to the Toulouse prosecutor on December 9, questioning the reality of the employment at the Ministry of the Economy of the mayor of Toulouse and president of the metropolitan council.

His activity at Bercy would have brought in last year, according to the local investigative media, 6,700 euros gross per month for the elected Les Républicains. Without counting his remuneration as a local elected official, which would have amounted to around 6,000 euros per month.

“My schedule revolves around 90 hours seven days a week”

The anti-corruption association raises the question of “the legality of such accumulation” and “of the effectiveness of this job as a senior civil servant with that of first magistrate of a municipality of more than 440,200 inhabitants”. The study of the Toulouse elected official’s schedule is far from having dispelled Anticor’s doubts. “The diary shows, for example, very intense activity during the week of November 20 to 26, 2017, when whole days are devoted to representation missions, distributed with little room for the parallel exercise of an activity at Bercy, details the organization in its description. This intensity is done over other periods.

“When you have the schedule of mayor of a big city like Toulouse and you chair the metropolitan council, it seems difficult to combine with the activity of a senior civil servant, summarizes Farah Zaoui, legal director of Anticor, with Mediacités. The law anticipates these difficulties by calculating the allowances of the elected officials according to the number of inhabitants of the municipality of which they ensure the supervision and the administration. These allowances have been put in place in particular to allow them to resolve themselves, almost exclusively, to this voluntary activity to the detriment of their professional activity.

Contacted by the local media, with which the city councilor is nevertheless cold, Jean-Luc Moudenc is offended by SMS against “fixed idea” dunes “politicized association close to [ses] far-left opponents” Who “esteem – by what right? – that[il] shall not[t] not have a professional activity!” In his defense, Mayor LR highlights his “work capacity” worthy of the toughest traders on Wall Street. “If it were 35 hours a week, I would understand that we can wonder”. “In reality, my schedule is around 90 hours seven days a week.”

If, after having already been seized by Anticor, the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP) has indeed validated Moudenc’s declaration of interest in 2020, the public prosecutor of Toulouse confirms with Mediacités that this new folder is ” being evaluated “.