Matignon will send “a letter” on the draft budget to the Finance Committee “during the day”

The end of the suspense is looming… Prime Minister Michel Barnier will send “a letter” on the 2025 budget project “during the day” to the chairman of the Finance Committee of the Assembly, Éric Coquerel, who threatened to come to Matignon to demand the ceiling letters that set the credits for each ministry, AFP learned on Monday from the services of Matignon. The offprint – a budget document normally sent in mid-July to the parliamentarian who sets the spending ceilings for the State budget – will be sent to the Finance Committee “at the end of the week”, according to a source at Matignon.

The head of government, who must present his roadmap in a general policy statement (DPG) “early October”also plans to present its draft budget to the National Assembly on October 9, instead of the 1st, as recommended by the organic law.

Eric Coquerel: going beyond October 1st is “problematic”

October 9th is a “track studied so that the Finance Bill can be presented after the DPG”Matignon said. Michel Barnier “had discussions” on the subject of the budgetary calendar with Éric Coquerel, during a telephone conversation at the end of last week, according to concordant sources. The LFI deputy nevertheless judged, to the AFP, “problematic” to exceed October 1st. Respecting this date is for him “a question of principle and time for debate”.

“The longer they wait (to present the budget), the more the parliamentary debate risks being limited”stressed Eric Coquerel, recalling that the organic law provides for the submission of the draft budget on the first Tuesday in October, i.e. October 1. Eric Coquerel threatened to come in person to Matignon on Tuesday, accompanied by the general rapporteur for the Budget, MP Liot Charles de Courson, to demand the ceiling letters.

The two representatives of the Finance Committee have the right to carry out on-site inspections and checks on budgetary documents. “A constitutional law establishes that we have the budget documents by the end of July”Eric Coquerel stressed on France 2. This request was made “on behalf of the Assembly, on behalf of the representatives of the people, of my committee” which includes “MPs who support this government”he said.