After the hiccups of the first round, the city of Marseille has decided to increase the bonus given to municipal agents who will hold polling stations for the second round on Sunday of regional and departmental, we learned Wednesday from the municipality.
The premium will be increased to 350 euros, against 160 euros usually and 250 euros for the president of the office, indicates the city without specifying whether this compensation is net or gross, confirming information from France Bleu Provence. “We hyper-mobilize upstream to compensate for the lack that we sense,” says the left municipality. Training will also be given to volunteer agents on Friday.
On Sunday, for lack of assessors, voters in 34 offices found the door closed when the offices opened and a dozen of them could not open until 11 a.m. The town hall then proceeded to requisitions among officials. For the second round, she wants to avoid this solution of last resort in the second city of France which has 481 polling stations.
The shortage of assessors is general in France and other municipalities like Perpignan had resolved even before the first round to pay 300 euros gross for presidents and secretaries of offices. Assessors are normally volunteers and traditionally each candidate can appoint one assessor per office, but political activists are increasingly rare.