NARRATIVE – While the 2025 draft budget hunts for savings and marks the return of tax increases, an irresponsibility case is being filed against the Head of State, who allegedly let spending slide without compensating for it with reforms of structure.
«All this will collapse on public finances. » Last spring, Bruno Le Maire delivered this grim prognosis to one of the executives of what is still the presidential majority. When he was in office, in the world before the dissolution decided in June, the Minister of the Economy had no equal to praise the achievements in his vast field of competence since 2017. Unemployment falling, a increasing attractiveness, growth that resists despite the crises… In the eyes of Bruno Le Maire, this economic assessment is what will remain of the Macron years for the long term.
It was necessary to understand in passing that it was his, even if he sometimes deigned to mention the name of the head of state. But one dark point could not escape the boss of Bercy: the widening deficits and debt. In public, Bruno Le Maire multiplied the alarm signals, without going all the way to the role of whistleblower, he who did not…
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