Enter state funding: in Lyon, the mayor Grégory Doucet is running

The government published the 2025 state budget on October 10. Among the measures mentioned, a tax on local authorities. Inside the city of Lyon, the news is going down badly and elected officials are up in arms.

5 billion euros. This is the effort required by the government for large communities, or about 2% of their annual budget. But the communities estimate the total amount of the effort at about 9.5 billion euros, including in particular the effect of inflation and the 1.5 billion cut in the green fund. For Metropolis Lyon, the contribution would be between 50 and 70 million euros. Its president, Bruno Bernard, does not lose his temper.

“Should we close the college canteens? Should we close Ephad? Should we stop helping with thermal insulation? We can look but these are only measures against France that the government recommending” he answered this Friday, October 11.

As part of the conference of the group Urban France, hundreds of mayors and local elected officials had gathered in Lyon since the previous day. Ever since the government was announced, concern has been on everyone’s lips. “Who is it What are we going to say to our residents? Have we forgotten that 2/3 of the poor live in our cities? area Johanna Rolland, PS Nantes mayor. 44 local elected officials signed a column in the daily Ouest France to oppose the measure.

On the mainland, the cities of Lyon or Villeurbanne, but also Vénissieux, could be particularly affected.

The country was mismanaged for seven years, and today we blame the communities, which is completely unfair and an economic embarrassment.

Gregory Doucet, mayor of Lyon

The guest of the conference in Lyon, Catherine Vautrin, Minister of Partnership with the regions he listened to the criticism. But accept the government’s position. “Nothing is free. Someone who pays, it could be the city, the intercity, the State, etc… Then we all have to make an effort in public spending.

450 large communities must be raised on the operating income. list”is not completely fixed“ according to the government. But the law could still be changed in Parliament before the end of the year, with the possibility of excluding the most vulnerable cities from this financial effort.