The 2025 budget of the Department of Deux-Sèvres must be voted on December 16. Before that, this Monday, November 25, the time was at budgetary orientation debate. “We will present the draft budget in mid-December as we announced. I can tell you now that it will be unprecedented. For the first time in the history of the community, it will not generate any surplus”declared the president of the Department Coralie Dénoues in her introductory remarks during the public session.
“The Departments of France are asphyxiated. In Deux-Sèvres, 2024 we are still standing with a slightly positive but already unacceptable result. And 2025 we will be on our knees”she explains to our microphone. Statements in a very tense context with uncertainties linked to the finance bill, under discussion in the Senate since Monday. What effort will ultimately be required of the Departments? In Deux-Sèvres, the community remains mobilized. During the public session, 3000 postcards representing the 3000 signatories of the petition launched a few weeks ago by the Department of Deux-Sèvres were symbolically placed in a ballot box.
The financing of Departments, “a model to be reconstructed”
But the finance bill is not the only problem alerts Coralie Dénoues. “The PLF should not be the tree that hides the forest. The financing of the Departments is a model to be rebuilt. It is not normal for social policies to be financed by real estate dynamics. It makes no sense . There is no longer any link between tax and public service”regrets the elected representative from Deux-Sévrien.
On December 16, there will be “the first arbitrations, without the PLF. Afterwards will come the consequences of the finance bill and there we will take on the responsibilities that will be ours”says the president of the Department. “Nothing will be pleasant. Society must be with people to help them up, not to be there permanently afterwards. So we will be there for those who fall but we will raise them up so that they can be independent.”she specifies.
“We will have to make deep cuts. Where? For whom?”
The left opposition is worried. First of all, this calendar maintained despite the context. “It’s perfectly imprudent. We are going to vote for a budget which, even if it is sincere, will not be true.denounces Dorick Barillot, vice-president of the opposition group. But also arbitrations which will be decided. “If the president persists in wanting to maintain her gross savings at the level where they are today, we will have to make drastic cuts. Where? For whom? 65% of the department's expenditure is social action. How we is going to make deep cuts in such matters? And child protection?asks the elected official from Mellois.
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