Pascal Coste, the president (LR-Nous France) of the Corrèze Departmental Council is this Sunday the guest of the program Dimanche en Politique en Limousin. At the 93rd Conference of the Departments of France in Angers, he listened this Friday with satisfaction to the intervention of Prime Minister Michel Barnier, who proposed a series of five measures to “very significantly reduce the financial effort” requested from the departments within the framework savings provided for by the 2025 finance law.
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Pascal Coste returned relieved from Angers, where he attended the congress of the departments of France for three days.
The Prime Minister's speech this Friday largely met his expectations: “Michel Barnier understands that the community of solidarity and territoriality is called upon too heavily in relation to the needs expressed on the ground. It was an unbearable drain, 40% of the effort of the local authorities was carried out at the departmental level which is today the most fragile.
And on the DEP stage, the president of the Corrèze Departmental Council, for almost 10 years, continues: “we cannot continue to increase costs and have revenues fall, this is what the Prime Minister has understood and this is what will allow us not to have to decide between the elderly, the disabled or the disabled. youth”
In his speech, Michel Barnier proposed a series of five measures to “significantly reduce the effort required of departments” as part of the savings in the 2025 budget. The departments alone had to give up 2.2 billion euros of the 5 billion in revenue withdrawn from local authorities.
The day before, the departments led by the right and the center had threatened “not to pay their share of the financing of the RSA, to no longer take care of unaccompanied minors who must be financed by the State and to take the State to court each time it takes unilateral decisions.
Pascal Coste therefore believes that the Prime Minister has understood the situation:“Michel Barnier significantly changed his policy and he understood the messages he had to send to us. He understood that we were at the end of our rope and that it was not a whim of the right-wing presidents who support him, that it was was vital for our territories.
The left-wing group from the French departments did not have the same reaction. In a press release, he believes that “These are crumbs that are announced to us, and which will not be enough to carry out our missions and serve our residents. These announcements are not the mesh of the net of protection and support that we weave every day in our departments.”
One of Michel Barnier's measures concerns the increase by 0.5%, over three years, of the ceiling on transfer taxes for valuable consideration (DMTO), collected by the departments on the occasion of each real estate transaction.
This measure is welcomed by Pascal Coste, because “DMTOs concern very few people and 0.5% increase on a house sold in Corrèze is 500 to 700 euros more, so this will not be a deterrent to the final purchase”.
Pascal Coste also spoke about the action of the new socialist deputy for Corrèze, a certain François Hollande, re-elected on July 7, in place of Francis Dubois for whom Pascal Coste was the deputy: “I think that François Hollande has a great ambition to become President of the Republic again and that Corrèze is his stepping stone, he is not present in the National Assembly”
And while the former President could encourage the socialists not to vote for a new motion of censure in the event of Michel Barnier using 49.3 to adopt the 2025 budget, Pascal Coste ironically: “in two months, he is capable of voting for the motion of censure, and to say the opposite, you have to have a backbone.”
Concerning the resumption of the outbreak of anger among farmers, and particularly in Corrèze faced with the risk of an agreement on Mercosur, the one who is also a breeder and producer of chestnuts, expresses his total opposition to an exchange treaty between Europe and the countries of South America.
Pascal Coste explains that he “had a motion unanimously voted by the 103 presidents at the congress of departments to refuse the agreement on Mercosur, because free trade brings all the shortcomings of the lowest bidder.”
