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Covid-19: the Court of Auditors castigates the government management of Macron's "whatever the cost"

2021-04-13T08:29:15.818Z


Of the 76 billion euros in aid budgeted last year, the state ultimately did not disburse 31.6. This considerable difference reflects a "lack of realism in budget forecasts," criticizes the financial institution.


We could be happy about it.

The Court of Auditors sees in this a serious lack of realism which could have been avoided.

Last year, the executive did not skimp on communication by announcing tens and tens of billions of euros of emergency aid - solidarity funds, partial unemployment ... - to face the health crisis, in the name of

"whatever the cost"

presidential.

But, of the 76 billion euros dedicated to these measures and voted in the four crisis budgets between April and December, no less than 31.6 billion were not consumed.

The executive has seen broad ... And this considerable gap, which

"cannot be justified by the sole reason of prudence"

as the executive affirms it, reflects a

"lack of realism of the budget forecasts"

, criticizes the Court of Auditors in its report on the execution of the 2020 crisis budget, published on Tuesday.

"The extent of this under-consumption is unprecedented"

, note the magistrates of the rue Cambon, specifying that these 31.6 billion euros not used

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Source: lefigaro

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