The Senate rejected by a large majority on the night of Monday Tuesday a control deemed very strict of the finances of local authorities wanted by the government in the draft budget 2023, recalling that Elisabeth Borne had promised that there would be no sanction.
The upper house, dominated by the opposition, adopted by 302 votes against 38 an amendment deleting an article of the finance bill which it accuses of taking up a protocol on the public finances of the communities that the Assembly and the Senate had already refusal in the 2023-2027 budget planning bill.
You are not even taking into account what the Prime Minister said during the recent congress of mayors where she assured that the government’s intention was not to maintain a sanction mechanism, the rapporteur of the Finance Committee, Jean-Franois Husson (LR),
Very annoyed, the various opposition groups have in turn denounced a coup de force or an act of defiance vis–vis communities that cannot formally present deficit accounts.
The Minister of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, wanted to be reassuring, recalling that it was a contract of trust between the government and the communities. It is a question of giving credibility to our objective of restoring public finances, he assured.
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The adopted amendment deplores a very strict protocol to engage local authorities ‘to contribute to the recovery of public accounts’.
Even though they generated a surplus of 4.7 billion euros in 2021, represent only 7% of public debt and 20% of public expenditure, such a level of constraint does not therefore seem justified, specifies he.