The finance bill proposed by Michel Barnier's government arouses the concern and anger of many local elected officials. This bill could call into question a certain number of local projects. In a letter he addresses to these elected officials, Fabrice Robelet explains the reasons for this anger and invites them to gather on Saturday November 30 in Vannes to express their discontent.
The letter from the president of AMF 56, Fabrice Robelet
“Ladies and Gentlemen Mayors,
Ladies and Gentlemen, Presidents of EPCI,
Ladies and gentlemen, deputies, municipal councilors and community councilors,
The finance bill for 2025 provides for an unprecedented drain of 8.75 billion euros for Communities.
These measures are unfair when the communities vote for their budgets to be balanced, can only borrow to invest and their debt has been stable for 30 years, the communities will have to resort to borrowing to complete the projects started before this brutal decision . The proposed measures once again strengthen state centralism, which is a factor of poor performance. From the DGF alone, which is supposed to belong to the communities, the State has taken, since 2010, 71 billion euros from municipalities and intercommunities. For what result? The deterioration of public accounts. The same causes produce the same effects.
These measures are dangerous, because they risk disrupting investment (roads, schools, sports equipment, etc.), which primarily benefits VSEs/SMEs which provide the vitality of the country's economic activity. They will disrupt the necessary ecological action, the success of which will depend on local solutions adapted to each territory. They will harm the functioning of local public services and therefore widen inequalities; finally, they will end up degrading public accounts through their recessive effect.
Local elected officials have long been making proposals to break the spiral of widening deficits and loss of confidence in public institutions. Because only local freedom can restore public performance and civic ties, and following the Prime Minister's announcements, the Association of Mayors and EPCI Presidents of Morbihan is calling for a gathering of local elected officials to make their voices heard:
Saturday November 30, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. in front of the Morbihan Prefecture, 10 place du Général de Gaulle, 56000 Vannes »
