254 million euros of commitment authorization to renovate schools in Marseille, voted on October 25. 256 million, including 32 released from 2022, to develop the city’s public transport network, validated a week later. The deputies incorporated into the 2022 finance bill (PLF 2022) the amendments materializing the main promises made by Emmanuel Macron during his presentation of the “Marseille en grand” plan.
The law still has to go back and forth with the Senate but, barely more than two months after the river speech delivered in the Phocaean city on September 2, the declarations of intent of the President of the Republic have indeed been translated into the budget of the ‘State. “We wanted a quick political commitment on the promised envelope. The voted amendments guarantee local authorities the funding announced for the years to come ”, welcomes the deputy La République en Marche (LRM) of Bouches-du-Rhône Saïd Ahamada, one of the rapporteurs of the PLF 2022.
744 million euros in reimbursable advances
To reach the total mentioned in September by President Macron – among others, 1 billion for mobility – the government completed the commitment authorizations, which validate direct state subsidies, with two other amendments. The first, voted on November 4, grants the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis 744 million euros in reimbursable advances. Of this amount, 100 million payment credits are opened from 2022, for, says the text, “Secure the rapid start of projects”. The second amendment, tabled Saturday, November 6 and submitted this week to deputies, aims to give the state guarantee for loans up to 650 million for Marseille schools. This sum will be raised by the company to be created jointly by the Marseille municipality and the State to pilot this project concerning 174 schools out of the 472 in the city.
The mayor of Marseille, Benoît Payan, who has made this unprecedented scale a symbol of his term of office, wishes to see his municipal council validate this company before the end of 2021. The vote was not included in the meeting scheduled for Wednesday November 10, but could be on the agenda on December 17. “It is progressing so well with the State that this society, its nature and its composition should be defined by then », Assures the president of the majority group Printemps Marseille, Joël Canicave.
The socialist mayor of Marseille, Benoît Payan, hailed these financial commitments as “historic” decisions
You have 56.47% of this article to read. The rest is for subscribers only.