The elected representatives of the departments were very happy to receive the Prime Minister, François Bayrou, at their greeting ceremony, Wednesday January 22, in Paris. A first, welcomed the president of their association, François Sauvadet, happy to be able to plead the cause of communities mired in financial difficulties.
The new government is asking municipalities, departments and regions for an effort of 2.2 billion euros, compared to 5 billion under Michel Barnier, to contribute to the country's budgetary recovery. However, the count is still not good, estimated the president (Union of Democrats and Independents) of Côte-d'Or. Because, he warned, in 2024, “30% of our departments” were in great financial difficulty. They will be « 60 % » at the end of this year. “We must stop loading the boat; she's sinking”he warned.
But to this pressing request, François Bayrou did not provide the expected response, recalling “very great financial difficulty” of the country. Clever, on the other hand, he took up the cause of the departments in the latent rivalry which pits them against the regions. These do not find favor in the eyes of the Prime Minister. Which castigated those who, finding the departments “archaic, obsolete, outdated”, dreamed of making regions « Countries allemands » thinking that they would replace the departments. “It didn’t happen.”he pointed.
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