After an agreement between deputies and senators in joint committee this TuesdayParliament definitively adopted the end-of-management finance bill for 2024 this Wednesday. A text definitively adopted in the morning in the Senate, then in the afternoon in the Assembly (by 318 votes to 103), despite a rejection motion presented by LFI, the only parliamentary group to have voted for it. Éric Coquerel, LFI president of the Finance Committee, denounced an “austerity” text which should have been a corrective finance bill, and not an end to management.
The text in fact reduces State expenditure by 5.6 billion compared to the initial finance law, which is added to the 10 billion euros of expenditure canceled by decree last February for a deficit estimated at 6, 1% (see our article on the text adopted in the Senate). It also releases 4.3 billion euros in emergency credits, notably allocated to support New Caledonia or the replacement of military equipment delivered to Ukraine. They must also cover the cost of organizing early legislative elections and paying so-called “JO” bonuses to the police.
Laurent Saint-Martin, Minister of the Budget, welcomed “a parliamentary desire to support” a budgetary text allowing “to put France on the path to budgetary recovery”, before the vote on the motion of censure which will be held following the examination of this text.
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