Responsible for identifying savings avenues to reduce the public deficit, the Court of Auditors proposed cutting 100,000 jobs in communities, which triggered the ire of associations of local elected officials, Libération reported.
Michel Barnier’s government aims to reduce the public deficit to 5% of GDP in 2025 and below 3% by 2029. Thus, in its presentation of the 2025 budget, scheduled for October 10, the government plans 60 billion euros of effort. For its part, the Court of Auditors, responsible for identifying savings avenues to reduce the public deficit, mentioned a shock measure: the elimination of 100,000 jobs in communities, reported ReleaseWednesday October 2.
In a report, she explained: “Personnel expenditure, which represents a quarter of community expenditure, is experiencing sustained growth, mainly driven by the municipal bloc”. And to add that “controlling their evolution is a central issue”.
The president of the Association of Mayors of France is annoyed
The magistrates thus recommend a “gradual return of community staff”which employ around 2 million people, “at their level of the early 2010s”which would save 4.1 billion euros per year from 2030. In 2017, Emmanuel Macron was already planning to cut 120,000 positions in the public service.
Nevertheless, this proposal from the Sages of rue Cambon triggered the ire of associations of local elected officials, and of the president of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF) David Lisnard: “Territorial personnel cannot be reduced to an accounting question”.
published on October 2 at 8:00 p.m., Guillaume Dosda, 6Medias
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