The Court of Auditors will publish its traditional annual report on Friday on public policies and the proper use of state funds, which this year will take stock of four decades of decentralization in France.
This document, the culmination of the action of the financial jurisdiction, has been given to parliamentarians since 1832. last year.
The Elders of rue Cambon and the regional and territorial chambers of accounts (CRTC) have chosen to examine this year the performance of the territorial organization of our country, 40 years after the first decentralization laws, according to a press release sent to the AFP.
This report will be made public when the boss of the presidential Renaissance party, Stephane Sjourn, provoked an outcry in February by showing himself in favor of questioning the large regions created in 2015.
The Court of Auditors and the CRTCs, created during the decentralization movement born of the law of March 2, 1982, wanted to draw up an inventory of the current situation and compare the initial ambitions of decentralization with the results on the ground, in terms of of services rendered to the population and to businesses.
The report includes two chapters on the renewed momentum of decentralization 40 years later and on the redefinition of the method of financing local finances.
Its second part goes through various areas of decentralization with a fine-toothed comb, such as the economy of local authorities, social policies, education, art and in particular performing arts, household waste, water management and the intervention of local authorities in access to primary care.
More usually, the opening chapter of the report to be released on Friday will deal with the overall situation of public finances at the end of February 2023.
The whole is intended to be shorter in order to be more easily accessible to citizens, with many infographics to allow better reading and facilitate understanding of the findings of the financial jurisdictions.