In Charente, after a brand new rejection of the price range, a guardianship in sight for the division | EUROtoday

The 2025 price range of the Charente Departmental Council was once more rejected on Tuesday April 22, in opposition to a background of persistent political blocking, paving the way in which for a extraordinarily uncommon guardianship of this neighborhood by the prefecture.

The division had nonetheless obtained on April 16 a suspension of the prefect by being licensed to reconvoke a plenary session, however the budgetary textual content was rejected on Tuesday, two opponents instructed the France-Pressers.

As throughout a primary poll on the finish of March, the price range of an quantity of 615 million euros was rejected specifically of the abstention of a number of elected officers from the left majority, who seceded after months of political disagreements inside the meeting of this territory of some 350,000 inhabitants.

The govt chaired by Philippe Bouty (numerous left) is now doomed to see the prefect take management of the funds of the division, which employs round 2,000 individuals, coming into the Regional Chamber of Accounts (CRC). “I do not feel cornered for resignation for a simple reason: this budget was sincere”reacted Philippe Bouty to the radio microphone right here. “I’ll work in a short time with the prefect in order that the impacts are essentially the most measured. (…) It is the regional chamber of accounts that has the hand for a 12 months. »»

“A very exceptional situation”

The monetary management physique has one month to develop a brand new draft price range and ship it to the prefect. “A very exceptional situation for a department”even when he “There will be no Shutdown” The American, had underlined the president of the CRC, Vincent Léna, in an interview each day in early April Charente Libre.

After the failure of the primary vote, Philippe Bouty accused his political opponents of “Attempt at putsch”concentrating on the proper and socialist senator Nicole Bonnefoy, one of many six elected officers on the left having seceded. The supervisor, who had turned the division to the left in 2021, shortly noticed his plural left majority crack, his criticisms accusing him “Untimely ads” and “Sometimes inadequate behaviors”. Elected officers who’ve remained within the majority accuse Nicole Bonnefoy to covet the pinnacle of the manager.

The group of dissidents and the opposition, led by the centrist Jérôme Sourisseau, who chaired the division in 2020-2021, has been claiming the resignation of Mr. Bouty since his minority.