Until now, the municipality of Aubagne had barely commented on the new government’s budget announcements. It must be said that the obstacle is significant.
As a reminder, the 2025 finance bill (PLF) is based on a major budgetary effort – to deal with France’s very heavy deficit -, amounting to 60 billion euros in savings, including 5 billion allocated to local authorities, which makes many people cringe.
But would a patch of blue sky appear when the storm is coming? At the close of the meeting of the Départements de France association which was held last week, Prime Minister Michel Barnier assured that the effort requested from the departmental councils within the framework of the PLF would be “reduced very significantly”.
For the Departments, OK, but for the municipalities? In the initial text, local authorities were affected by the savings measures, including “actual operating expenses (…) are greater than 40 million euros“. Which is the case of Aubagne.
“Aubagne is registered in the alert network”
It is in this context that the City will present this Monday, November 18, its report on the budgetary orientations (ROB) for 2025, while the PLF has not been finalized – it is currently in the hands of the senators.
So on what basis do we start? “We are sticking to the 2024 budget, particularly for operations“, explains Danielle Menet, finance assistant, who is crossing her fingers that the City will be spared from the cost-saving measures.
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