The debate on the budget was cut short this Tuesday morning at the Paris Council. As announced, the group Les Républicains, led by their leader Rachida Dati left the hemicycle a little less than an hour after the opening of the session to protest against the increase in property tax. proposed by Anne Hidalgo.
“You have decided in a somewhat shameful, somewhat hidden way to increase the property tax by 52%”quickly attacked Rachida Dati, recalling that the mayor of Paris has thus “betrayed a campaign promise”.
“We will not be complicit in this robbery or in this betrayal”, concluded the mayor of the 7th arrondissement then left the room, followed by the elected LR of the Council of Paris. “I regret this policy of the empty chair which deprives Parisians of an expression which at least could have been clear on the orientations to be pursued”replied Anne Hidalgo.
The mayor of Paris then explained her choice to increase the property tax by 52% in Paris. This choice is “that of refusing to degrade our public services”. The city councilor ensures that without this increase the municipality would have been forced “to increase school canteen prices by 40%, to put an end to free extracurricular activities on Tuesdays and Fridays but also to free admission to museums, to freeze the recruitment of 400 municipal police officers, to put an end to free Pass Navigo for young people, to close public swimming pools or to put an end to free swimming in the summer, to no longer accompany 200,000 Parisian households thanks to aid from the CCAS”.
The mayor of Paris ensures that the capital, like “all the municipalities of France” is faced with “a worrying national and international context, marked by climate change, the energy crisis and the economic crisis”. This situation “very difficult” has, according to Anne Hidalgo, “not taken into account by the government”. The socialist mayor of Paris protests that“no indexation of resources has been thought out to take account of inflation or the increase in energy costs”.
Faced with this observation, the mayor of Paris has therefore chosen to increase the property tax, and therefore to go back on one of her campaign promises. “I would have preferred to keep this commitment and I would have preferred that the State could be a partner of the city and that was not the case”she laments.