In a letter addressed to all associations in Haute-Vienne, the president of the Departmental Council, Jean-Claude Leblois announces a reduction in the aid that will be allocated to them. A decision motivated by the loss of revenue announced by the government as part of the 2025 finance bill.
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The letter from Jean-Claude Leblois (PS) sounds like a “alert” to all associations in Haute-Vienne. The socialist president of the Departmental Council calls “the 9,000 associations, as many employees and more than 100,000 volunteers who cultivate local dynamics and social cohesion”. “You are all a strength and an opportunity for our territory thanks to your daily commitment”, he adds, bitterly.
This bitterness comes from the heart of this letter sent to the associations on November 2. Jean-Claude Leblois warns that the department will lack 44 million euros to balance the 2025 budget, due in particular to 12 million additional levies, decided by the government as part of the 2025 finance bill. This The latter provides for 5 billion savings imposed on local authorities.
A complex situation which pushed the president of the department to warn the associations of “this worrying tension, which will necessarily have an impact on the conduct of public policies”.
He thus evokes several scenarios for balancing the budget. Unfortunately, “all of them involve a reduction in aid for associations, municipalities and inter-municipalities or even the closure of services”, regrets Jean-Claude Leblois. Faced with these cuts, the president claims to be obliged to “refocus on mandatory skills in the social field”.
This letter, however, is not intended to be fatalistic. The president of the department actually calls “to the fight that we must wage collectively and in solidarity against the government so that the deadly trajectory that it promises to the departments is reversed.” Concretely, it offers a “mass arrest”, only solution, for “hope to be heard”.
The letter sent by Jean-Claude Leblois to the associations
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During the plenary session of October 17, Jean-Claude Leblois had already declared “unable to prepare a 2025 budget and present budgetary guidelines in December”, already pointing the finger at this budget cut of 44 million euros. An orientation that the president of the department now seems to have chosen, reluctantly, while awaiting new government announcements. The 93rd Congress of the Departments of France will be held from November 13 to 15 in Angers and a government intervention is planned for the Friday just before the close of the debates.
