The political crisis in Charente will have particularly rare consequences for a community of this size. After not having voted its 2025 budget on Tuesday, the Departmental Defecting Council will undergo prefecture supervision on Wednesday.
At the end of March, this budget, for an amount of 615 million euros, had been found during a first vote, due in particular to the abstention of a group of six elected representatives of the left majority that had been divided after months of political dissension within the assembly of this territory of about 350,000 inhabitants.
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The executive chaired by Philippe Bouty (DVG), therefore, had until Tuesday to present a new copy and vote it, under the penalty of seeing that the Prefect takes control of departmental finances by entering the Regional Accounts Chamber (CRC). But at 8 pm, the quorum had not been reached to the assembly, the elected officials of the opposition and the …