The Senate rejected by a large majority on the night of this Monday to Tuesday a control considered “very strict” of the finances of local entities sought by the Government in the 2023 budget project, recalling that Elisabeth Borne had promised that there would be no penalty .
The upper house, dominated by the opposition, approved by 302 votes against 38 an amendment that suppresses an article of the Finance Law project, which it accuses of resuming a “protocol” on the public finances of the communities that the Assembly and the Senate had already rejected the 2023-2027 budget planning bill.
“You are not even taking into account what the Prime Minister said” during the recent congress of mayors where she assured that “the intention of the Government was not to maintain a sanctioning mechanism”, the rapporteur of the Finance Commission, Jean-François Husson, was outraged (LR).
“Trust Agreement”
The Minister of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, wanted to be reassuring, recalling that it is a “contract of trust” between the government and the communities. “It is about giving credibility to our goal” of restoring public finances, he assured.
The adopted amendment deplores a “very strict protocol to commit local authorities to ‘contribute to the recovery of public accounts'”.
“Although they generated a surplus of 4.7 billion euros in 2021, they represent only 7% of public debt and 20% of public spending, therefore such a level of constriction does not seem justified,” he says.
Source: BFM TV
