The Court of Auditors could refuse to certify the State accounts if their recommendations are not heard better, threatened its first president Pierre Moscowi on Wednesday, while recognizing that the 2025 budget promised to be better than that of 2024.
The president of the Court of Auditors reported his resentment before the press, then in the National Assembly, presenting several documents, including the certification of state accounts by 2024. “I imagine that the situation of a company” where the auditor “would certify the accounts with strong reservations or not certify them, and where the Council of Directors would say”: The State, Moscow.
“Court reserves cannot be taken light or disputed”
“Reservations made by the court cannot be taken light or disputed,” but they should “on the contrary be the issue of all the attention of the administration to make them disappear,” he said.
However, “by the year 19 consecutive, state accounts cannot be certified without very significant reservations,” he said. “In the absence of significant progress in 2025, the court could be taken to (…) not to certify the accounts,” said Pierre Moscovici, who wrote in this regard for Bercy this week.
The first president had very hard words about the 2024 budget, invented in the autumn of 2023 with forecasts, which turned out to be too optimistic, the teams led by Bruno Le Maire, in particular a public deficit announced in 4.4% of the GDP that slipped 5.8%.
Regretting that there was no financial law of amendment at the beginning of 2024, to take into account the landslides already observed in 2023, Mr. Moscovici denounced “erratic management, visionary management, the succession of postponements, gels, overgels, placement plans” that uploaded last year. In 2025, “it is a little better, it must be recognized”, even if “we are still observing light optimistic biases or risks that are not completely evaluated,” he said.
“However, he greeted, the growth forecast (current) at 0.7% is not beyond reach, even if the risks linked to international economic conditions and geopolitical uncertainty are high.”
Source: BFM TV
