In budgetary crisis, the Department of Charente goes under guardianship of the prefect – Liberation

The Charentais elected officials let the last chance to vote on the department’s 2025 budget on Tuesday in Angoulême. The prefect of Charente, Jérôme Harnois, announced Tuesday evening to take control of the budget of this community of 350,000 inhabitants, directed by the elected official various left Philippe Bouty, after the departmental council rejected for the second time a draft budget. The state representative will be based, to manage the finance of the department, on a notice from the Regional Chamber of Accounts in New Aquitaine, which confirmed on Wednesday to Release to have been seized, and which will have to produce your text within one month. « It will then be up to the prefect, by decree, to settle the primitive budget and make it enforceable within twenty days »specifies Jérôme Harnois.

This trusteeship of a department is particularly rare. In the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, the last case was that of Lot-et-Garonne. In 2017, the majority of Pierre Camani (socialist) had voted a budget in imbalance: reporting a financial disengagement from the State, she had registered in revenue of subsidies that the latter did not plan to pay. Inadmissible for the prefect, who had activated the guardianship procedure.

In Charente, the budget presented by the majority of Philippe Bouty amounted to 615 million euros, including 63 % social spending (RSA, placement of children, etc.). What part of this envelope will be renewed? What will be logic to