Although it refuses to be the "cash drawer" of Ile-de-France Mobilités (IDFM), the State is nevertheless ready to "work" with the regional transport authority to avoid a sudden rise in the price of subscriptions, said Gabriel Attal on Monday.

"There is a need for financing for IDFM", recognized the Minister of Public Accounts on BFMTV / RMC, while the president of the institution Valérie Pécresse must find 450 million euros before the board of directors on Wednesday for balance the 2023 budget.

“It is a file followed at a very high level, by the Prime Minister, the ministers concerned.

We will continue to work with her [Valérie Pécresse] to find solutions, to help her, ”assured Gabriel Attal.

"But it must help us to help it, by looking at other possibilities" than the increase in the Navigo monthly plan to complete the 2023 budget, constrained by inflation and soaring energy prices.

Who should pay?

Currently sold at 75.20 euros per month, the price of the monthly Navigo pass could increase to 90 euros, and that of the unit metro ticket from 1.90 to 2.30 euros if IDFM does not find new sources of financing.

A possible increase of 20% that Valérie Pécresse has already deemed “unacceptable”.

"The people of Ile-de-France are not a cash drawer on which we can pump by indefinitely increasing the Navigo pass, and the State is not a cash drawer either", hammered Monday Gabriel Attal, himself elected in Ile -of France.

The Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire followed suit on France Inter, claiming to be "accountant of the money of all French people".

"It's complicated for me to go and explain to someone who lives in Nantes, Nevers or Romorantin that I'm going to take public money which also belongs to him to help the richest region of France", a attacked number 2 of the government.

The question of the mobility payment

In a deliberation that she must submit to IDFM's board of directors on Wednesday, Valérie Pécresse threatened to suspend a series of payments linked to major projects, starting with the preparation of the Olympic Games and the Grand Paris metro, if the State does not make any move to avoid too high a rise in public transport fares.

Our file on the navigo pass

Valérie Pécresse, who does not want to lower the transport offer - which should just go up to 100% - nor give up her investments, has asked the State to be able to increase the mobility payment - a tax on the payroll of companies with more than 11 employees - in the densest areas, a reduction in VAT from 10% to 5.5% and a transformation into a subsidy of repayable advances granted by the State during the pandemic.

The elected official (LR) also mentioned a tourist tax on hotels of more than 4 stars.

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Ile-de-France: Ways to avoid an increase in the Navigo pass

  • Paris

  • Navigo pass

  • Valerie Pécresse

  • Gabriel Attal

  • Public transport

  • Ile-de-France