in Essonne, the Union of Mayors calls for a large gathering of elected officials in front of the prefecture

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It is not unanimous, to say the least. THE finance bill for 2025proposed by the government, arouses a vive opposition among the local elected officials across France. In Essonne, theUnion of Mayors, calls at a ggreat gathering of elected officials essonniens in front of the prefecture in Évry-Courcouronnes, Monday November 18, 2024 at 8:30 a.m.

“Several tens of millions of euros” less

In a press release, the association of 194 mayors and 10 intermunicipalities of Essonne, considers the 2025 budget presented by the government led by Michel Barnier “unacceptable for local authorities”.

For Essonne, it provides for several financial levies from the 10 largest municipalities and intermunicipalities as well as the Department, of several tens of millions of euros. The other municipalities are also impacted by the set of several technical proposals which will degrade local public accounts.

“The municipalities provide proof of their good management”

The elected officials also intend to mark their disagreement with state discourse attributing responsibility to municipalities for the widening of the country's public deficit.

By balancing their accounts each year, by not increasing, for the vast majority of them, the property tax rate, by painfully absorbing the disappearance of the housing tax, the municipalities provide proof of their good management.

Not having been adopted in the National Assembly, the finance bill for 2025, part now under discussion in the Senatewith the hope for the Union of Mayors of Essonne (UME) that the government's proposals will be amended by the upper house of Parliament.

“Damaging municipalities will mean degrading public services”

Otherwise, the association of elected officials in Essonne ensures that public orders will “collapse” just like the building and public works sectors.

The UME also fears that municipalities will be forced to “degrade local public services (canteens, nurseries, leisure centers, cleanliness of public spaces, civil status, social services, etc.) or even eliminate certain ones which form the basis of social cohesion throughout the Essonne territory.

Mayors warn of “operations that can no longer continue”

For the EMU, this potential budgetary blow is added to “the already old exasperation of the mayors” linked to “overadministration and excess regulation which burdens and slows down local work and generates additional costs”.

“A mode of operation that can no longer continue,” insists the association. Monday it is expected that a delegation would be received by the prefect of Essonne, on the sidelines of the gathering.

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