“The financial situation of the city is serious, and is not linked to the Covid, contrary to what Anne Hidalgo says”, affirmed this Sunday the Minister Delegate in charge of Transport.
Should the city of Paris be put under guardianship, as requested by associations? Despite her promise not to increase local taxes, the mayor of the capital Anne Hidalgo announced in early November an increase in property tax by 7 points in 2023, an increase of more than 50%. Last attempt to stem a galloping debt, from zero euro on the arrival of Bertrand Delanoë in 2001 to 7.7 billion today.
Asked about it this Sunday in the big meeting on Europe 1 and CNews, Clément Beaune estimated that “the financial situation is serious and is not linked to the Covid, contrary to what Anne Hidalgo says“. The scenario of being placed under guardianship is therefore not “not excluded“, continued the Minister of Transport. “For the capital, it’s very serious and I don’t want it, it would be a last resort“, he added, inviting the mayor of Paris to “take his responsibilities».
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«For Parisians, Anne Hidalgo’s page has already been turned“, he pressed, invoking the result of the former PS candidate in the presidential election, of “less than 2% in his own town. Or 23,000 votes in Paris when Emmanuel Macron obtained 380,000, recalls a survey by the Figaro. «It’s a kind of end of reign that has set in“, finally affirmed Clément Beaune.