The French official leading a pension reform drive that has unleashed a crippling public transport strike resigned over undeclared payments on Monday as citizens endured a 12th day of commuter misery with their holiday plans hanging in the balance.
Jean-Paul Delevoye became the target of unions’ ire after admitting he had failed to disclose 13 private sector posts, paid and unpaid, in a recent asset declaration.
One of his jobs, as president of an education think-tank, paid nearly 5,400 euros ($6,000) a month on top of his government salary — money he should have forfeited under a 2013 political transparency law.
An official in the French presidency said Emmanuel Macron will name a new pension reform commissioner “as soon as possible”.
Government spokeswoman Sibeth Ndiaye later stressed that the pension reform won’t go away with Delevoye, “it will still be defended” by the executive and will not be withdrawn.
