So far, so good. But this amount was clearly too low since in June 2025, at the time of budgetary adjustment, the minister added for 8.9 million euros to this same budgetary position. She specifies that “This increase takes into account the provision in 2025 new buildings taken for rent “. Asked about this sudden increase of 42 %, by several opposition deputies (PS, Ecolo and PTB), the Minister explains: “far from me the desire to reject the fault on someone, but the administration recognized this error of 9 million euros. It was the administration that presents its estimates had obviously omitted to take into account the entry into force of certain rentals. […] At the initial 2025, we had not rejected a proposal from the administration or imposed an economy “.
It is therefore the fault of the administration, circulate there is no longer anything to say about it. Interpoaged by this assertion, the opposition asks the minister to send her the documents from the administration in order to be able to note herself “this error “. The minister ends up accepting after a few procrastination. “”I will make a green note today to have all the official documents, and they will be transmitted. ” She will ultimately do nothing, assure the PS and Ecolo in chorus.
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The Court of Auditors has documents
In order to gain their case, the PS and the environmentalists enter the Court of Auditors which have these documents in order to be able to consult them. It then appears that “The administration indeed asked the initial 2025 a budget of 27.959 million euros for the rents, or 6.7 million € more than the minister registered in the initial. The administration had justified the increase in credits requested precisely by 4 new buildings of buildings “explain the PS and Ecolo together.
For them – even if we still do not know why the additional amount requested by the administration is a little lower than that granted finally by the Minister -, Jacqueline Galant committed “A serious political fault in a democracy “. They add that in “Preferring to hide this information about the reality of the facts before the parliamentarians, the minister failed in her duty of transparency and deliberately lied to parliament “.
“She wrongly accused the administration for an error that she herself made, and she lied to the Walloon Parliament “explains Stéphane Hazée.
Christie Morreale, the PS group chief, believes that it is “of an episode which is part of a broader ideological trend of the MR, which consists in weakening and systematically criticizing the public service. It propagates a narrative which aims to delegitimize a pillar of our democracy. It is a double betrayal with regard to citizens and the public service. She does not assume her error by postponing the fault on others “.
The burden of the two opposition parties is heavy. The minister will therefore have to respond to these accusations. We imagine that next week at the Walloon Parliament will be hot if the opposition manages to force the Minister to come and explain it.
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