“For 20 or 30 years, we have been one of the most generous departments”

This Friday, June 27, the report of the Court of Auditors on the finances of local authorities pointed out the financial fragility of a dozen departments with negative net savings, including the Dordogne. In addition, He confirms the conclusions of the Regional House of Accounts last November. However, which already announced that the department was orienting itself “towards a clearly negative perspective for the next two years”.

“We will not spend the money we do not have”

Far from being moved. For example, Germinal Peiro first explains this situation by an increase in “30 million euros in expenses, essentially social”: personalized autonomy allowance, disability compensation service, RSA … In parallel, 30 million revenues would have evaporated with the impossibility of resorting to taxation as it was in the past. Consequently, The socialist calculated that “24.4 million euros we would have in addition”. To this he adds a collapse of the transfer duties after the period of the covid which had seen. their “for 20 30 years, we flight.

“We will not go to bankruptcy” – "for 20 30 years, we

Except that all the departments being subject to these constraints. we must seek the particularity of the Dordogne elsewhere. “For twenty or thirty years, we were one of the most generous departments,” analyzes Germinal Peiro. 400 of the 500 crossings of rebuilt boroughs, brand new festivals: “what was done once was necessary”.

With 5,000 km of road network, the Dordogne also experiences “strong structures loads”, he slips, without quoting the Beynac deviation project. In its report last November. the Chamber of Accounts had criticized the “low control of complex processes with strong legal and financial risks” of the latter.

The wall is getting closer but “we will not go to bankruptcy,” says Germinal Peiro. “Until then, we were going beyond our compulsory skills with our aid to the municipalities. We will assume the contracts that have been established but I am not able to say if “for 20 30 years, we we will. undertake again in 2027. We will not spend the money we do not have. »»