The Court of Auditors fears long-term excessively high expenditure

The coronavirus crisis cannot justify all the budgetary drifts and, in particular, the continuous increase in current spending.

It is, in a few words, the very severe criticism of the Court of Auditors, which delivered this Tuesday an expected report on the 2020 state budget.

Certainly, with an estimated cost of nearly 93 billion euros for the state alone last year, the pandemic has effectively plunged its accounts into bright red.

Its deficit has exploded to 178 billion euros.

Abyssal levels that the government justifies above all by the presidential "whatever the cost", put in place for more than a year in support of businesses and households.

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But this

"unprecedented increase in spending (...) is not explained only by the health crisis",

hammer the magistrates of the rue Cambon.

“Ordinary” expenditure - excluding exceptional measures, therefore - also grew by 6.7 billion euros last year.

They are thus on

"a growth dynamic close to that of 2019 (+ 7.3 billion)

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