By voting, the deputies rejected, Tuesday, November 12, in the National Assembly, the revenue section of the 2025 budget.
Eliot Blondet-ABACA
An expected result. Even “logic”slips a deputy Together for the Republic, at the end of the solemn vote which rejected, Tuesday, November 12, Bourbon Palacethe revenue side of the budget for 2025. Only the left, which largely unraveled the government's initial copy, voted “for”.
Among the island parliamentarians, we opposed or abstained.
On the right, the president of the Horizons group, Laurent Marcangelihad announced the color in our columns, believing that he could not “overall, notwithstanding the progress obtained for Corsica, validate a budget which is slipping so much”.
Same echoes on the benches of the Republican Right. “The group has sanctioned a text introducing insane taxation on an economy already suffering,” adds François-Xavier Ceccoli.
In the Liot group (Libertés, independents, overseas and territories), Michel Castellani abstained. “Impossible, he indicates, to support an unrealistic budget, which added tens of billions in taxes, and cut the French contribution to the European Union. But difficult to vote against, after the adoption of our amendments (proposed modification to a text submitted to a deliberative assembly, editor’s note) on territorial continuity and the protection of Corsica in the face of the surcharge on plane tickets”.
An analysis shared by his colleague, Paul-André Colombani who also favored abstention.
What will remain
The negative vote of the National Assembly results in the rejection of the entire state budget, the second part, devoted to expenditure, will therefore not be discussed by the deputies while the text will be transmitted in the Senate.
What about the provisions adopted for Corsica, in particular the €50 million extension requested by the CdC in order to consolidate air and maritime services between the island and the continent? Charles de Courson (Liot), general budget rapporteur, hopes that among the “laudable changes”those in favor of the island will be “preserved”.
A wish that Laurent Saint-Martinthe Budget Minister, did not rule out. It remains to be seen what will be retained for Corsica.
