2024-08-20 18:01:33
Stranger than the “capping letter” that the resigning Prime Minister Gabriel Attal sent to all ministers on Tuesday, August 20. He announced to them a blanket freeze in state spending of 492 billion euros until 2025 and specified how each ministry would be affected. The budgets for defence, culture and sport would be relatively favourable, Matignon said, but this would particularly hurt the budget for work and employment. Draft budget? Necessary technical measures? Political signal? A draft destined to be thrown in the trash? A little, no doubt.
Under VEgypt The Republic, for the first time, has a budget framework drawn up by a resigning prime minister for a minister who has also resigned, indicating from the outset that the framework is intended to be adjusted and even questioned in the coming weeks. “Reversible Budget”, According to the amazing formula invented by Matignon: “The next government and parliament can amend it. » Macron’s decision on June 9 to dissolve the National Assembly and his failure to immediately appoint a prime minister after the second round of early legislative elections on July 7 brought about another unprecedented situation.
The sending of the ceiling letters, texts without legal value, traditionally marks a key stage in the preparation of the state budget. In principle, the prime minister signs them between mid-July and early August, after negotiations between Bercy and other ministries. This year, Thomas Cazeneuve, the minister of public accounts, promised to speed up the timetable and began line-by-line discussions with colleagues in charge of the civil service and sports, but the disbanding brought everything to a halt.
“Surreal”
Thomas Cazenave and his Minister of Supervision, Bruno Le Maire, then envisaged leaving control to a future executive, especially considering that the resigned government should limit itself to dealing with current events. However, with Emmanuel Macron delaying the appointment of a prime minister, Bercy officials considered it necessary to continue preparing a fiscal bill and thus the letters of cap, so as not to paralyze the burdensome budget mechanism. After some hesitation, Gabriel Attal chose to send these letters again, after reviewing and correcting them, about a month later than the traditional timetable.
‘He wants to ensure the continuity of the country’we explained to Matignon. Sending letters to each ministry determining the future payment allocations for each mission and each program, as well as their employment ceilings, constitutes ‘Necessary step’pleaded the prime minister’s entourage. Without this working basis, how can the future government complete the budget on time? The bill must be sent to the High Committee on Public Finance in mid-September to give the latter time to make an opinion, and then approved by the Council of Ministers at the end of September and submitted to Parliament on the 1st.yes October. Therefore, the matter became urgent. ‘The Prime Minister is doing his job by avoiding a budget wall’praising Matignon.
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