The Elysée will not request an increase in its allocation for 2025, the presidency announced this Tuesday, October 15, after the controversy sparked by the 2.5% increase in its budget provided for in the finance bill. While “the government has announced numerous savings”, “the Head of State wants the Presidency of the Republic to set an example”, added the Elysée in a press release. The presidency’s appropriations were to increase from 122.6 million euros to 125.7 million, an increase greater than the overall increase in prices planned for 2025 by the draft budget (1.8% average inflation).
In the process, the presidents of the National Assembly and the Senate also announced that they would propose to renounce the increase in the state allocation to the two houses of Parliament in the 2025 budget, with the ambition of ” participate in the effort” to restore public accounts. In a joint press release, Yaël Braun-Pivet and Gérard Larcher consider it “normal and essential that the two assemblies participate in the effort required of all to restore the public finances of our country”, while the government’s draft budget provided for the indexing of Parliament’s allocation to the inflation rate, i.e. 1.7%.