2023-06-01 19:13:59
Éric Woerth, Renaissance MP for Oise. François BOUCHON/Le Figaro
France has often set aside budgetary orthodoxy to deal with crises. But the pandemic followed by inflation and the war in Ukraine have definitely reduced the defenders of serious budgeting to a trickle.
The pension reform has left its mark. Regrets too. So much so that in the ranks of the majority, we continue to replay the film by evoking what could have been improved. Show more pedagogy, perhaps. Be clearer on the objectives of the text, no doubt. The MoDem deputy passed by the Court of Auditors, Jean-Louis Bourlanges, still thinks about it and is sorry. “We did not choose to focus on the balanced budget argument. And why? Because the French don’t give a damn“, he summarizes. Before adding:But I, I think that in truth, a silent minority is sensitive to it.»
In the political class too, the supporters of this line, which still advocates the balance of public accounts, are in the minority. They were never very numerous, of course. France has often set aside budgetary orthodoxy to deal with crises. It was first necessary to spend massively to rebuild the country after the wars. Then there was…
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