Two hemicycles, two strategies, two responses to potential reductions in State funding for communities. Thursday December 12 and Friday December 13, the city of Marseille and the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, one after the other, voted on their initial 2025 budget. Accounts, adopted by a majority in both cases, which illustrate the differences in political choices made by local executives in the face of the vagueness surrounding their financial relationship with the State.
First to vote, Marseille municipal councilors validated a budget of 1.99 billion euros, an increase of around forty million compared to 2024, including 473.9 million devoted to investment expenditure. “I am proud that we have an aggressive budget to continue providing a quality public service”welcomed the various left mayor, Benoît Payan, from the podium. A few weeks earlier, the elected official, like most local councilors, was alarmed by the budget proposed by the Barnier government and the loss of 48 million euros that this implied for his municipality, according to his teams.
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“But the finance bill was not voted on and we decided not to take into account reductions which we do not know if they will take place… We therefore made a copy and paste of the allocations from previous years and we remain on our budgetary trajectory »explains the finance assistant and budget rapporteur, Joël Canicave (PS).
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