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5mo ago

Charente Department Placed Under State Oversight After Budget Deadlock

The prefecture has imposed rare tutelle as political divisions prevent adoption of the €615 million budget, with the CRC tasked to draft a new proposal within a month.

Le budget du conseil départemental de la Charente a de nouveau été rejeté mardi 22 avril 2025 sur fond de crise politique. Le département est désormais sous tutelle.
C’est au préfet de la Charente que revient le choix de prendre, ou pas, un arrêté appliquant le budget proposé par la chambre régionale des comptes.
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Overview

  • The Charente departmental council failed to pass its €615 million budget during a final vote on April 22, 2025, following weeks of political gridlock.
  • The prefecture has placed the department under tutelle, an extraordinary measure for a jurisdiction serving 350,000 residents and employing 2,000 people.
  • The Regional Audit Chamber (CRC) has been tasked with creating a replacement budget within one month, which the prefect will formalize within 20 days of its submission.
  • President Philippe Bouty, facing internal dissent and calls for resignation, has pledged to collaborate with the prefect to minimize the impact of the intervention.
  • Deep fractures within the left-wing majority, including abstentions by dissident councillors, have been central to the repeated budget rejections.