How to develop the 2025 Budget with so much political uncertainty?

This is an exceptional situation that the Bercy services are facing: the latest political turmoil has disrupted the preparation of the 2025 budget. And it is an entire chain that is slowed down.

This is another (of the many) consequences of the dissolution: the preparation of the 2025 Budget is delayed. The latest political turmoil has disrupted its schedule, and an entire chain is slowed down, from resigning ministries to parliamentarians.

This summer is unlike any other for the Bercy services: at this time, usually, the text is being finalized. But today, with a government on the way out, the ministries are still waiting for the costing of the savings measures, as are the deputies, who need it to prepare their amendments.This is absurd“, complains a left-wing MP who denounces a one-month delay on the initial schedule.

In the entourage of the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire, we are talking more about a week’s delay.Predictable“, “We are on time“, we are told, with the aim of presenting”options to the Prime Minister by August 15“.

A New Popular Front parliamentarian believes that the executive is going head down, with the budget from before the dissolution, as if nothing had changed: he denounces a “austerity policy swithout having the majority to apply it“. “We have to do things differently“, they concede at Bruno Le Maire, “but no question of undoing“.

The bill is due to be presented to Parliament by October 1, the latest deadline, for consideration in the fall of 2024.