MP Philippe Gosselin speaks on the budget

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The nation’s budget arrives for discussion at the Palais Bourbon. Last Thursday, the Council of Ministers presented its finance bill for 2025established in a context where the public deficit would be close to 7 % of gross domestic product (GDP) in the absence of measures. To reduce it to 5% of GDP, the government plans to make 60 billion in savings from next year.

“We have a budget crisis huge », comments Philippe GosselinMP for Manche (Republican right). The parliamentarian cannot explain this slippage and its silence, the first alerts having only appeared in July. “There was definitely deception on the merchandise. The debt burden is exploding. »

The dust was swept under the carpet during the subsequent European and parliamentary elections.

Today, “the position is bitter”. Increase in taxes for the richest, freezing of pensions for retirees, reduction in grants for communities…

The deputy does not “want us to touch the middle classes » and admits, he who has always defended a position in favor of a reduction in taxes, the need for “those who have the highest incomes” to participate in reducing the deficit. The elected representative advocates “tax justice” the contours of which we cannot see at the moment.

“2 to 3 billion”

He speaks out against the comments of the former Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, who blamed the communities for the budgetary slippage. The latter are at most responsible for “2 to 3 billion” of the 16 billion attributed to them. The effort cannot, for him, exceed this amount. Locally, the bill would already be “30 million” for the Department.

Communities must also make efforts but they are not responsible for the state deficit.

Putting communities under budgetary pressure would have the effect of making it impossible for some to fully assume their public service missions and of freezing or canceling local projects. “This would result in less support for economic dynamics; it would be less support for local employment. »

Discussions in parliament will occupy the coming months. The Prime Minister declared that his draft budget could be “improved”. The debates on the subject promise to be complicated in an assembly without a majority group with the prospect, in the end, of a 49.3. Philippe Gosselin, who was “approached” to join the government, believes that Michel Barnier can succeed. “If Barnier can rely on public opinion, it can last. It will be difficult for the RN to press the button (Editor’s note, vote on a motion of censure); he would then be accused of sowing chaos. » The Manche elected official supports the government.

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