According to the government spokesperson, "there was no intention to deceive" after the revelation of a letter from Bruno Le Maire on the state of the finances.

Is this the start of a new controversy concerning Emmanuel Macron? This weekend, former Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire revealed to our colleagues at France 5 that he had warned the tenant of the Elysée in April 2024 about the state of the country's budget via a "secret" letter.

In this document, Bruno Le Maire proposed limiting the deficit to 4.9% in 2024. These recommendations were not followed, as GDP reached 5.8% that year. Government spokesperson Maud Bregeon, who called for an end to all the controversy, stated that "there was no intention to deceive."

On our airwaves, she recalls this Monday, November 10, that "as early as March 2024, Bruno Le Maire and the President of the Republic proceeded to freeze 10 billion euros", a decision which "created a lot of debate" and "aroused discontent".

Maud Bregeon stated on BFMTV that these expenses stemmed from "the Covid crisis" and "the energy crisis".

"The state has taken over almost half of the electricity and gas bills," she says, "at an estimated cost of 25 billion euros per year."

According to the government spokesperson, this is "money used to protect the French people, the first mission of the President of the Republic."

This letter has sparked outrage among the opposition . For Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Rally deputies, it "shows how sick our democracy is." "When Emmanuel Macron dissolves the National Assembly, he is acting in full awareness of the disastrous state of public finances," she wrote on social media. Meanwhile, La France Insoumise, through its deputy Éric Coquerel from Seine-Saint-Denis, denounced a "state oversight." "In retrospect, this means that the budget that was presented was insincere," the elected official added on Monday on BFMTV and RMC.