Question 23641 — local authorities

Summary

Mr. Frédéric Barbier questions the Minister of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities regarding the significant reduction in State grants supported by communities. Indeed, if the overall envelope of the general operating grant (DGF) remained unchanged for the year 2019, the equalization mechanisms, intended to reduce inequalities between communities, generate variations in attributions. They greatly penalize some of them who experience this as an injustice, criticizing an opaque and discriminatory method of calculation. Also, without calling into question the principle of solidarity, the question of the legitimacy of capping based on the financial potential of municipalities and their demographic development arises. “Good student” municipalities with rigorous management have the feeling to be unduly sanctioned, and find themselves hampered in their investments. This is why, while the Government has announced a new stage of decentralization based on three clear principles: responsibility, clarity and financing, it is asking whether means will be implemented to bring more clarity and fairness to the distribution of grants, ensuring that it is not always the same municipalities which assume the solidarity policy put in place by the Government.

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