The senators voted to end the appropriations of the High Commission for Planning, an organization headed by François Bayrou before he returned to Matignon.
End clap for the High Commission for Planning? Senators voted this Wednesday, January 22, to abolish this organization headed by François Bayrou before he became Prime Minister.
“Resurrected in 2020 after the Covid crisis, the High Commission for Planning (HCP) struggled to convince of its usefulness,” reasoned centrist senator Nathalie Goulet in her amendment.
The text voted on at the Luxembourg Palace cuts all of the credits granted to the HCP, i.e. 1.9 million euros, and proposes its merger with France Stratégie, a service placed under the Prime Minister.
If the government is in favor of “synergies” between the two institutions, it is against the “pure and simple elimination” of its budget, declared in the Chamber the Minister Delegate in charge of Relations with Parliament Patrick Mignola.
-“A recommendation from the Prime Minister”
“It is a recommendation from the Prime Minister himself to merge the HCP with other agencies, notably France Stratégie,” government spokesperson Sophie Primas reacted on the BFMTV set.
The minister, however, calls not to “suppress the mission” of the High Commission for Planning which is to offer “visibility over time” and a “projection of France in the next 10, 20, 30 years”. “On the other hand, we are removing the structure,” she conceded.
According to Public Senate, 135 people (full-time equivalents) worked at France Stratégie at the end of 2023 compared to only 14 for the HCP. François Bayrou ran the institution on a voluntary basis.
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