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2024-03-21 14:48:45

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The general rapporteur of the finance committee of the Upper House, Jean-François Husson, is at the Ministry of Economy and Finance this Thursday, March 21 to try to obtain answers on the planned worsening of the deficit and debt French public. The standoff between the government and the opposition has begun.

In terms of budgetary control for parliamentarians, it is almost a nuclear weapon. Deprived – unlike the deputies – of a right to overthrow the government by a motion of censure, the general rapporteur of the finance committee, senator LR Jean-François Husson, is this Thursday, March 21 in the offices of the Ministry of Economy and Finance to carry out a “documentary and on-site inspection”.

In a press release sent to the press at lunchtime, the elected representative of Meurthe-et-Moselle is moved by the “unprecedented deterioration” of the 2023 public deficit announced in several media this morning, and confirmed by the minister Public Accounts delegate, Thomas Cazenave, on France Info: “Expected at 5.6% of GDP instead of the expected 4.9%,” recalls Husson.

The parliamentarian therefore intends to emerge from the ministry occupied in particular by Bruno Le Maire (Economy and Finance) with “all the notes and documents produced by the Bercy services and explaining this deterioration” and “responses [à de] many questions”: “From

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