Exclusivity – From Mitterrand to Macron, the track record of governments in terms of public deficit

2024-09-10 09:44:03

For several months, Bruno Le Maire and Emmanuel Macron have seen bad financial news piling up with alarming regularity. The deficit was eliminated in 2023 and threatens to do so again this year. Not to mention that it will take a huge delay with 100 billion in savings over four years to put the public accounts back on track.

Is this enough to give the current Mayor and the Minister of Economy who resigned to manage public finances under the Fifth Constitution, as their opponents suggest? A study by Fipeco Published this Thursday and presented by “Les Echos”, take note of this observation.