The Ile-de-France region chaired by former LR presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse unanimously adopted its anti-crisis and inflation “social shield” on Thursday, despite criticism from the opposition who accuse it of a program in ” deceive him”.
Among the 30 measures of the program that the former minister puts at 200 million euros: the freezing of the price of canteens for the coming school year, i.e. 4 million euros which will be returned to families, aid of 500 euros for the conversion of vehicles thermal bioethanol and the doubling of aid for the departure of precarious people on summer vacation, which should benefit 10,000 Ile-de-France residents.
In the direction of young people, the first region of France also voted an anti-precariousness fund of one million euros for students and the strengthening of free driving licenses for young people in integration with the end of the advance of charges.
It also undertakes to double the number of training courses it finances for RSA beneficiaries, a measure which should represent a cost of 100 million euros, according to the explanatory memorandum.
But for the communist group, which voted for the whole, it is a report without vision transmitted hastily, a trompe-l’oeil which does not deceive anyone, castigated its president Cline Malais.
You are proposing to us to commit totally fictitious sums, added the Minister of the Public Service Amlie de Montchalin, a member of the Macronist opposition who nevertheless voted for because there is an obligation to act.
You have a new appetite for social emergencies, it may be related to what you have experienced in recent weeks, quipped the elected LFI Christian Prudhomme.
No doubt a reference to the call for donations made by Ms. Pcresse, personally indebted to the tune of five million euros after her score in the presidential election (4.78%) synonymous with non-reimbursement of her campaign expenses.
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Meeting for the first time since its painful end to the campaign, the regional assembly dominated by the right also adopted the administrative account for 2021, an exceptional year in terms of the execution of credits, welcomed the first vice-president Jean- Didier Berger.
With 2.3 billion euros last year, capital expenditure has never been so high, says the region for which operating expenditure, up 2%, is under control in a crisis context.
Like Paul Vannier (LFI), the left-wing opposition criticized the massive surplus of 448 million euros visible in real operating expenses, seeing it as a budget surplus. Faced with the most violent crisis since 1927, what have we done? Savings, launched Jean-Marc Germain (PS).
We did not have a budget surplus but a surplus from the operating section, replied Valrie Pcresse, stressing that the debt had reached a level of over 500 million euros.