2024-10-15 11:34:00
Everyone is tightening their belts. The Elysée will not ask for an increase in its appropriations for 2025, the presidency announced on Tuesday after the controversy sparked by the 2.5% increase in its budget foreseen by the finance law.
While “the government has announced numerous savings”, “the Head of State wants the Presidency of the Republic to set an example”, added the Elysée in a press release. Presidency appropriations are expected to increase from 122.6 million euros to 125.7 million, an increase higher than the overall price increase foreseen for 2025 by the draft budget (average inflation of 1.8%).
The Senate and Assembly also “participate” in the effort
Same announcements from Parliament. The presidents of the National Assembly and the Senate announced on Tuesday that they will propose to forgo the increase in the state allocation to the two houses of Parliament in the 2025 budget, with the ambition of “joining the effort” to restore public finances.
In a joint press release, Yaël Braun-Pivet and Gérard Larcher consider it “normal and essential that the two assemblies participate in the effort required of everyone to restore the public finances of our country”, while the government’s budget project provided for the indexation of Parliament’s allocation to the inflation rate, which is 1.7%.
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