Budget 2025: two senators ask the government to respect the deadlines
The outgoing government or the next one must present a budget project for 2025 within the deadline, before 1Ahem October, two senators warned on Wednesday. “The country’s budget situation today is critical enough to add uncertainty to uncertainty”created by the post-legislative political paralysis, stressed Claude Raynal, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, during a press conference reported by Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Bercy on Monday communicated documents to parliamentarians showing a possible further decline in the deficit to 5.6% in 2024, attributing it to an increase in community spending and disappointing tax revenues. “So we are getting closer (…) deficit levels that we experienced during the health crisis. This is unacceptable”He took offense at the rapporteur general of the Senate Finance Committee, Jean-François Husson, who judged “catastrophic” the government’s budgetary policy.
Following a deficit drift in 2023, the resigned Finance Minister, Bruno Le Maire, “ [avait] He said the budget situation was under control.Speaking of a “exceptional event”Mr. Husson noted. Gold, “The exact same thing will happen in 2024”he lamented. “I think the trajectory presented by the government was misleading”said.
The resigned minister in charge of public accounts, Thomas Cazenave, dismissed these accusations to AFP. “We have been irreproachable with Parliament. We provided all the requested elements on time and even went beyond the requests of the parliamentarians”he assured.
