A “critical”, “untenable”, “explosive” situation: the senators scrapped for a long time on Wednesday around the serious financial difficulties of Ile-de-France Mobilités (IDFM), combined with a deterioration in Parisian transport.
At stake at this time of the debate on the draft budget for 2023, the question of an increase in the mobility payment, a tax on the payroll of companies with more than 11 employees, to which the Minister in charge of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal has said firmly opposed.
Claimed left, this increase has divided the senatorial majority on the right. The proposals for a 5% increase put forward by LR senators Philippe Tabarot and centrist Vincent Capo-Canellas were finally rejected by 121 votes for and 208 votes against.
We must not agree on the backs of companies, which finance 50% of transport mobility, because no one wants to start the dialogue, protested Philippe Dominati (LR).
But the cry of alarm launched by the president LR of IDFM Valrie Pcresse, who agitates the threat of a Navigo past 100 euros (against 75.20), was widely relayed in the hemicycle of the Senate.
The regional president has estimated 950 million euros in additional operating costs for transport in the Ile-de-France region in 2023 due to the foreseeable explosion in electricity prices. At the same time, there is a degraded offer due to operator failures.
We are talking about the daily life of millions of people, at the risk of accidents and even jacqueries, alerted the ecologist Daniel Breuiller.
The standards for animals are not respected, added Sbastien Meurant (LR).
On the dock, the government. What I regret in everything is that we have the impression that the State is elsewhere, declared Roger Karoutchi (LR), wishing that part of the repayable advances granted in the face of Covid-19 IDFM will be transformed into endowments.
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You cannot only keep the responsibility of appointing the CEO of RATP, of appointing the CEO of SNCF, but at the same time not to finance, he added.
It is not this assembly that is asking for additional taxation, it is you. It is you who are deaf, launched Sophie Primas (LR) to the government address.
As for the Hauts-de-Seine senator Pierre Ouzoulias (CRCE with a communist majority), he invited Mr. Attal to meet him tomorrow at the Bourg-la-Reine station, but at 7:30 a.m., because at 8:00 a.m. it’s over, he doesn’t there is more room.
Let us keep simplistic solutions, warned the minister, for whom there is no magic solution. Discussions will continue at the level of the Prime Minister and ministers, he said.