The government has "no lesson to receive on the balance of public accounts", considers Castex

2021-09-28T11:53:23.147Z

Guest of honor at the MoDem back-to-school university, the Prime Minister responded to the opposition which criticizes “the spending euphoria” of the 2022 budget.

We have no lessons to receive on the questions of balance of public accounts

" and "

nothing would be worse

" than "

austerity

", underlined Sunday Jean Castex, while the right-wing opposition castigates "

the spending euphoria

Of the 2022 budget.

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“

What are the experts telling us, even the most severe, I think of the IMF?
That nothing would be worse when this health crisis is not over than to do as we did in the past to take over from the austerity recovery, it would not work and our public finances would be even more weakened. and degraded,

”insisted the Prime Minister, guest of honor at the MoDem re-entry university in Guidel, in Morbihan.

6% growth expected in 2021

“

Recovery and investment

”

budget

, priority to the sovereign: in the finance bill for 2022, the government is counting on strong growth to finance an increase in spending while starting to reduce the public deficit.

The draft budget is based on a growth forecast of 6% for 2021 and 4% for 2022, one of the strongest economic recoveries in the euro zone, after one of the most massive recessions in Europe (-8% in 2020) .

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We must continue to invest, to work

", continued the head of government.

Not without some curiosity, I hear that the same

" who explained "

a little over a year ago

" that "

we were a small player with the recovery plan

", we "

reproach

" today "

for spending too much.
Understand who can!