"The government, for regions that are obviously totally political and political, has decided to come and deprive us of revenue," said the former Minister of the Budget when presenting her regional budget for 2022, which will have to be approved by the council from Monday to Wednesday.

"It is an impecunious state which does not have the means to help the regions and which uses the funds of Ile-de-France" and, "oddly", in those of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Pays de la Loire, two other regions led by the right, she further criticized.

According to Ms. Pécresse, Ile-de-France had reached an agreement with the other regions to donate via this redistribution mechanism 400 million euros over the entire mandate.

But "the government returned to this agreement to take a much more unfavorable position for Ile-de-France", imposing an equalization of 800 million euros, or 400 more.

"The Region will contribute 51 million euros more from next year for the benefit of other regions," said his entourage.

"These are all investments that the Region will not be able to make."

"The region will draw the consequences, especially with regard to the contractualization agreements made with the State which are therefore suspended for us", threatened the elected representative of Yvelines who intends to "renegotiate each contract, each expense".

The CPER (State Region plan contract) and the recovery plan, such as the brownfield plan for example, are affected by this questioning, said his entourage to AFP.

Despite this, the region will continue "the revival of investment" and "stabilize operating expenses", she said, posting investments up by 1.1 billion euros, "or 73, 4% ", compared to those of 2015, the last year of the left in regional power.

The region's debt for 2021 stands at just over 6 billion euros, "or a virtual stabilization in volume since 2015" (5.36 billion) for the executive.

The PS and related group denounced a budget "down compared to the additional budget adopted during the summer", stressing that "no initiative is taken to end the transport galley".

For Céline Malaisé (PCF), "banging on the state" for the equalization reform "only serves as a diversion to hide the serious budget cuts" planned by Ms. Pécresse in 2022.

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