La Charente, the primary division beneath supervision for greater than twenty-five years | EUROtoday

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Philippe Bouty, president (various left) of the Charente Departmental Council, in Angoulême, April 15, 2025.

François Sauvadet, President (UDI) of Côte-d’Or and patron of the Departments of France affiliation, which is left: “A department under guardianship is a unique phenomenon!” »» Exceptional scenario, the truth is, that of the Charente, whose funds went beneath the management of the State, Tuesday, April 22, for a minimum of a 12 months.

Since the legal guidelines of decentralization, in 1982, not one of the 91 departments of France had skilled such a sanction. Only Guadeloupe had been positioned beneath supervision, within the late Nineteen Nineties, as a result of an extended drift of its accounts and a finances “Insincère”,, Officially extra however actually in deficit. A handful of municipalities on the tightrope, similar to Bussy-Saint-Georges (Seine-et-Marne), Pont-Saint-Esprit (Gard) and Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais), additionally skilled this extraordinarily uncommon process.

Nothing like this, this time. Charente isn’t some of the tough French departments. Its debt fee, 39 % of working income, stays a lot decrease than the nationwide common (62 %), and the deliberate finances was in stability. It is a political disaster, and never monetary, which explains the tutorship.

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