Ten billion euros in savings: Coquerel requests an amended finance bill

The MP believes that "the decision to pass modifications of such magnitude through regulations is a democratic denial", and that a draft amending finance law "should not be a 'possibility' but an obligation. I demand it,” he asserts in a press release.

“I will ask to hear Bruno Le Maire at the finance committee after this announcement,” he added.

The French government has significantly revised downwards its growth estimate for 2024, from 1,4% to now 1%, the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, announced on Sunday, revealing "immediate" savings of 10 billion dinars. euros on state spending to meet budgetary ambitions.

Recalling having denounced, during the adoption of the 2024 budget, the "deception" of a growth forecast of 1,4%, Eric Coquerel notes that it is today "reduced to 1%, which still seems very exaggerated in view of the figures announced by all economic organizations.

The elected official from Seine-Saint-Denis denounces "a 5 billion euro blow to the functioning of all ministries" which will have "an impact on the deterioration of services provided by the State and on working conditions of agents" and will be "economic nonsense", because "such a reduction in public spending when growth is at half-mast risks having a recessive effect".

He also deplores "a significant drop in public development aid which is particularly detrimental to the countries of the South as well as that for energy renovation", according to him "incomprehensible in view of the climate emergency".

The MP recalls in particular that during the examination of the budget by the Finance Committee, "several amendments proposing, at least provisionally, to tax super dividends or even financial transactions had received a large majority, including with the votes of pro-government deputies ", and "would have brought in 15 billion euros".