Pandora papers

[viper37]

If we prevent them from working after they retire from political life, we will dissuade younger people of joining politics.  The pay sucks, the retirement fund is about average and there's no job security.

An MP elected for 2 mandates culminating in a total of 6 years without the possibility to work after that?  Unless you're rich and 55 years old, who would want to risk that?

There can be a time limit on how much time you can spend without contacting (as in lobbying) your former comrades at arms or bureaucrats (ex: I think in my own contract, I can't do business with the city for 2 years after I leave, to avoid appearances of conflict of interests), but I don't think it's realistic to prevent a well viewed politician from joining a big firm.

I mean, retired politicians or political advisers are often hired by a government of the same party/affiliation at high costs (like, 800$-1000$/hrs) for some special consultation job or another.  That is more worrying for me than the dude who charges 5000$/hrs to be heard talking about anything he might not even be a specialist of.