the rag burns between the local authorities of Île-de-France and the Barnier government

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Arm wrestling in sight. The presentation, this Thursday, October 10, 2024, of the 2025 finance bill in the Council of Ministers promises lively debates in the National Assembly and the Senate. France is in the red : the public deficitshould expect 5.6% of GDP, according to the Public Treasury (6.2% in 2025). And the public debt would stand at 3,228 billion euros at the end of the year, according to INSEE.

Local authorities will have to put their hands in their pockets

In his general policy statement the new Prime Minister, Michel Barnier, announced that he wanted to reduce this deficit to 5% next year (3% by 2029 to meet the targets set by Brussels). To achieve this, his government plans to make 60 billion savings, and ask 5 billionto local authorities (town halls, departments, regions). Which quickly caused the main stakeholders to react.

While the head of government accuses local authorities of reduce public spending Ali Rabeh, mayor of Trappes (Yvelines), expressed his disgust. And to remember that, during the various crises – Covid, urban revolts of 2023, but also in everyday affairs, such as school, transport… – these are the mayors who were on the front lineto “compensate for the desertion of the State”.

The French will be “penalized”

Philippe Laurent, mayor of Sceaux (Hauts-de-Seine) and vice-president of the AMF, went further on X, predicting that the government was going to “penalize the French”, first and foremost the most vulnerable.

How is the budget of local authorities structured? What are their direct actions? Are they responsible for the public deficit? Is this understandable, while the State transfers more and more skills at the same time as it sweetens revenues? How to participate in the country’s effort? Or, on the contrary, how can we counter government directives? What direct consequences for those administered will have the blow requested from communities…?

All these questions, Paris news and BFM Paris Île-de-France will have the opportunity to ask them, this Thursday, October 10, 2024, at 7:30 p.m., in “Île-de-France Politics”a program for which our two media have joined forces. Among the guests who attended: Olivier Capitanio, president of the Val-de-Marne departmental council, and Bruno Prioumayor of Corbeil-Essonnes (Essonne).

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