The Minister of Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire, suggested on Saturday to the majority parliamentarians to propose amendments to add “savings” to the 2024 finance bill, during a round table in Bordeaux.
If parliamentarians from the majority (…) offer me additional savings, if they are responsible and if they make sense, I will accept them, I will support them and we will put them in the 2024 budget, declared Mr. The Mayor during a round table at the European campus of Renaissance, the Macronist party’s back-to-school event.
During the presentation of the 2024 finance bill (PLF) on September 27, the executive indicated that it planned some 16 billion euros in savings next year.
The minister sent the same message in an interview with the newspaper Sud Ouest, published on Saturday: If the majority wishes to make new proposals for reducing spending during the parliamentary debate, with Thomas Cazenave, we say yes.
The government wants to give pledges of budgetary seriousness, faced with a debt which has exceeded 3,000 billion euros and a deficit well outside the European standards which ranks France among the bad students of the euro zone.
Parliamentary debates on the 2024 budget will begin this month in Parliament.
Deprived of an absolute majority in the National Assembly and probably of support in the opposition, the government could resolve to adopt the budget without a vote by resorting, as last year, to article 49-3 of the Constitution.