Will the hatchet be buried?
While the conflict between the Ile-de-France region and the State over the latter's budget deficit had been going on for ten days, the Minister of Transport Clément Beaune announced, Tuesday evening, in
Le Parisien
,
a gesture to avoid an excessive increase in the price of the Navigo pass, as internal documents had suggested.
“We are going to grant significant exceptional aid for 2023 to communities that organize transport.
This will represent 300 million euros in aid, including 200 million for Île-de-France Mobilités",
indicates the member of the government, whose
"only compass of the government is the situation of the users."
Faced with a budget hole of 450 million for next year, Clément Beaune defends a
“very powerful and exceptional gesture”
, emanating from
“the money of all French people
”.
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If the minister does not hesitate to question the good management of Valérie Pécresse at the head of his region, he also defends the policy of the government:
“Responsibility, that means that when we exercise a competence, we must assume it fully.
I remind you that transport in Île-de-France is the region and the Île-de-France mobilities organization, both chaired by Valérie Pécresse, who are responsible for it.
And to add therefore that it is not
a question of “a question of arm wrestling, but of responsibilities.
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