“We parliamentarians have received nothing that would allow us to work” on the preparation of the 2025 budget, the LFI-NFP deputy and president of the Assembly’s finance committee lamented again this Sunday.
Eric Coquerel’s ultimatum on the budget. Guest on BFMTV this Sunday afternoon, the LFI-NFP deputy and president of the finance committee of the Assembly has further increased his pressure on the government, accused of hiding documents for preparing the 2025 budget. We are talking here about “ceiling letters”these documents prepared by Bercy and sent by Matignon to the various ministries in order to indicate their budget for the following year.
“We have not received these ceiling letters”Eric Coquerel again lamented. “We parliamentarians have not received anything that allows us to work, but the ministries have received these ceiling letters, which at this stage offer them 15 billion in savings, and Mr. Le Maire (the resigning Minister of Economy and Finance, Editor’s note) thinks that more will be needed.”added the deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis.
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“We need transparency”
In this situation, the rebellious elected official plans, with his centrist colleague Charles de Courson, general rapporteur of the budget, to go and get them directly from the office of Prime Minister Michel Barnier. “With Charles de Courson, if we don’t have the ceiling letters tomorrow evening, we will go to Matignon to get them”he warned, claiming to have “the right theoretically to have all the documents that allow a budget to be drawn up” as Chairman of the Assembly’s Finance Committee.
“I say to the Prime Minister: he must send us the ceiling letters tomorrow. We need transparency.”added the left-wing MP. On this thorny 2025 budget, the debates on which promise to be explosive, Éric Coquerel also repeated that the left was going to the committee “try to rewrite it deeply” compared to the government’s version, so that it “approaches certain proposals of the New Popular Front”. “We are not at the shutdown »also tried to reassure the elected official, while some fear that France will find itself without a budget in 2025.
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