For his 46th birthday, the discreet Thomas Cazenave gave himself a resounding spotlight.
Heard by the deputies last Wednesday, the Minister Delegate in charge of Public Accounts found himself in full light by announcing that savings “of at least 20 billion euros” would have to be found in the 2025 budget.
A warning shot, launched alongside Bruno Le Maire, his supervisory minister, who was content to recall the same morning in
Le Monde
an initial objective well below,
“
at least 12
billion
”
.
Three months before the European elections, the alarmist outing of Thomas Cazenave is causing coughs in the majority and even at the top of the State.
“
We have to take things in order.
See how 2024 goes and we will talk about 2025 later
,” we say at Bercy.
“
It’s an awkwardness which takes nothing away from the sympathetic and loyal character of the character
,” adds a more magnanimous advisor to the executive.
Not the first choice
But the forty-year-old, held his reins short…
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