It therefore took eight months for the scathing analysis carried out jointly by the Court of Auditors and the regional chamber of accounts of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur on the launch of the Marseille plan on a large scale, from 2021 to 2023, to move from status from provisional to definitive. However, the criticisms contained in the first version of the report, revealed by the site March in February 2024 and that The World had been able to consult, were hardly modified during this so-called period ” contradictory “. Eight months during which the political situation in the country was turned upside down, weakening the future of a plan which owes almost everything to the will of the President of the Republic.
Made public Monday October 21 by the president of the regional chamber, Nathalie Gervais, this interjurisdictional report still considers that the content, implementation methods and objectives of Marseille in large “are insufficiently formalized and shared by the different actors ». A plan without a precise timetable, meeting no deadline that would allow regular evaluation, and whose only guiding text remains, still, Emmanuel Macron’s launch speech on September 2, 2021 in Marseille.
Despite the modifications made by the State, “the organization chosen appears incomplete and does not provide any guarantee as to the effective and rapid implementation of the actions of the plan »underline the magistrates. Which reveal an edifying figure: at the end of 2023, the sums actually disbursed by the State were limited to 1.31% of the almost five billion euros announced, or seventy-two million.
“Lack of overall governance body”
If the Court of Auditors plans “monographs” on education, mobility and housing, the main aspects of Marseille at large, for 2026, it is already identifying the shortcomings. Concerning education, she believes that the plan does not integrate “no specific measures aimed at responding to the causes of academic failure”. For public transport, it confirms that some of the fifteen projects chosen to receive state aid “do not meet the defined priorities » by the latter and in particular the opening up of the northern districts. On the housing side, the report notes that the measures only relate to the absorption of degraded housing.
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Finally, as good policemen of public finances, the magistrates recall that the reform of financial relations between the metropolis and its ninety-two municipalities has not been initiated, although it was one of the “priority conditions” state aid. According to the regional audit chamber, the amount of compensation allocations “paid by the metropolis [Aix-Marseille-Provence] to municipalities on irregular bases reaches 178.47 million euros per year ». Responsibilities that Martine Vassal, the various right-wing president of the metropolis, refuses to reduce.
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