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President of the Seine-Saint-Denis departmental council, the socialist points out that regions, departments and municipalities are prohibited from presenting a deficit budget and that the increase in their operating expenses also results from salary choices made by the State.
He is not happy. Asked by Releasethe head of the Seine-Saint-Denis department, Stéphane Troussel, responds to the attacks of the resigning tenants of Bercy, Bruno Le Maire and Thomas Cazenave who accuse local authorities of being responsible for the future deterioration of public finances. For him, it is a question “a lie to cover up the government’s political incompetence”.
Bruno Le Maire and Thomas Cazenave believe that the «risque» for public finances lies in “an extremely rapid increase in local government spending” Who “could alone degrade the 2024 accounts by 16 billion euros.” What do you answer them?
That, clearly, our two resigning ministers do not need public services to survive… Because each blind reduction in public spending, as they intend to do in the 2025 budget project, contributes to weakening these same public services. Before leaving Bercy, Bruno Le Maire embarked on a demolition project rather than an effort to redress public services. Being lectured on good management is unbearable. Public finances do not “slip” No, they were simply mismanaged! This is what happens when we refuse to increase revenue by taxing the richest and we lower the tax on capital: it leads us into
