Budget: more than 20 billion claimed by ministers

While the public debt is exploding in an alarming context of rising borrowing rates on the financial markets, the ministers remain particularly greedy.

During the traditional discussions on the 2023 draft budget with the Minister Delegate for Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, which is due to end on Thursday, they demanded, in total, more than 20 billion euros in additional credits for next year. compared to this year, says one within the executive.

Requests which would thus be greater than the approximately 22 billion in spending increases already desired last year.

Unsurprisingly, Gabriel Attal has at this stage agreed with very few of his counterparts.

And, like every year, a certain number of arbitrations should go back to Matignon, or even directly to the Élysée.

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The exercise is indeed particularly delicate for the tenant of Bercy, whose mission is to avoid new budgetary drifts after the presidential "whatever it costs" in the face of the coronavirus crisis and the few tens of billions of euros incurred in recent months to deal with galloping inflation.

Limit the increase in spending

Nevertheless, unless the situation changes, this new 2023 finance bill should still not be an opportunity to make serious savings, the idea being to somewhat limit the increase in expenditure where it is possible.

Within the executive, we are especially attached to the thorny pension reform to give guarantees of seriousness in terms of cleaning up the public accounts...

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The only certainty at this stage: the next few months promise to be intense for Gabriel Attal and his teams.

In addition to preparing the 2023 draft budget, which will be presented at the end of September in parallel with the long-awaited multi-annual public finance programming law, it is also necessary to carry out the examination of the purchasing power package underway in Parliament, the adoption of which final is scheduled for early August only…