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Anthony Sowani
Posted on July 16, 2025 at 6:49 p.m.
The savings tracks presented for the 2026 budget by François Bayrou on Tuesday July 15 made more than an elected official and a deputy for the hemicycle jump. The risk of government censorship has never been so close to the start of the school year. In the Rhône, reactions have multiplied. The mayor of Lyon, Grégory Doucet, reacts exclusively toNews Lyon.
The elected environmentalist tackles the Prime Minister of the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron: “This project is irresponsible. »»
Grégory Doucet regrets that cities must pay for the state
Grégory Doucet denounces “choices decided in Paris, without consultation, which confirm once again that this government considers territories as a simple variable of adjusting its austerity policies”.
We were told a moment of truth. Transparency would have required recalling a reality too often killed: from 1993 to 2023, the debt of cities increased from 9.2 % to 8.9 % of GDP, while that of the state exploded, from 33.7 % to more than 90 % of GDP. As an example, the City of Lyon has a healthy financial management and has deleted debt of more than 83 million euros since 2020. It has received the maximum AA note (High), notified by the rating agency DBRS MORNINGSTAR in 2024.
Grégory Doucet
Mayor of Lyon
For the mayor of Lyon, request 5.3 billion euros in additional efforts to the municipalities, “twice as much as in 2025, returns to Concretely weaken the daily life of the French“. The elected official cites as an example schools, mobility, social assistance, vegetation and safety.
Grégory Doucet says that “it is also penalizing our companies”. He explains: “Through our operating and investment budgets, we support a whole territorial economy: building companies, craftsmen, SMEs, local agricultural sectors. »»
He denounces the proposal to delete the holiday of 8-May
The mayor of Lyon sees there an “irresponsible project”, “just as the proposal that May 8 is no longer a holiday, while our duty of memory has never been so important, when the extreme right threatens the Republic”. Grégory Doucet, “as mayor of Lyon, capital of resistance”, cannot understand this decision “.
Note that François Bayrou also proposes to remove Easter Monday from the list of holidays in France.
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