“The failure, despite its merits, of Michel Barnierfor whom I have a lot of esteem, in the context of an exercise which turns out to be completely impossible, will he not impose himself on his successor? wonders Philippe Marini. THE mayor of Compiègne considers that the appointment of a new Prime MinisterFrançois Bayrou in this case, is equivalent to “step back to jump better”
“Same age as the previous one – encouraging for experienced people – this one not being a magician,” indicates the former senator. He will face the same party struggles. And the same difficulties in forming a team which could be as short-lived as the previous one.
In this context, Philippe Marini believes that a National Assembly without a majority “cannot be the support of an effective government”. As he declared on BFM TV, “the least bad solution would be a reduced government, with the sole ambition of keeping the public machine running until a new dissolution of the National Assembly is possible.”
“And Compiègne in all this?”
“We prepare budgets without knowing all the rules of the game,” laments the mayor. We could be satisfied with the renewal of credits for 2024, on the State side. Since this would exempt us from the efforts that should be asked of local authorities.”
In the Barnier government’s first finance bill, “the freezing of a fraction of our resources, and other provisions, would have cost nearly two million euros to the City and a little less to the Agglomeration” .
“Do not replace a certain proportion of retirements in the services”
“We are temporarily escaping this constraint,” he notes. Fortunately, we have been able to get our communities out of debt. Financing the investments planned in our multi-year plan should not pose any real problems.” “Without an increase in taxation at our level,” he adds.
Philippe Marini considers that “real discipline” must apply to services, in all areas. In the first half of the year, it will be necessary to prepare the measures that Parliament could vote on. And for this, “decide not to replace a certain proportion of retirements”.
And also create “a “precautionary reserve” by avoiding allocating all available resources from the start.” At this stage, these are only guidelines, “which will apply to our preparation exercise, since we will vote on the budgets at the end of March”.
