A possible issue of next Angers municipal polls comes out

The right contender for the municipal ballots of 2014, Christophe Béchu, would prefer to go without the increase of taxes he will probably decide next year at the Conseil général de Maine-et-Loire. The situation is clear. If, apparently, 2012 resources (492 millions €) are more important than expenses (440 millions €), those do not include the debt (the capital borrowed and the interets), two figures not disclosed by Angers medias. In 2012, 53 millions euros were due to be borrowed. Without that new loan, the overall amount borrowed by the authority over the years totals up 430 millions €.

One of the way to reduce the gap between resources and expenses consists in the decrease of the debt year after year : from 70 millions € in 2012, to 60 millions in 2013 then 50 millions in 2014. But "that is not in keeping with the projets of the Département", indicates the authority website. So, unless an increase of the subsidies from the state, the conseil général will have no other way but to increase its revenues, what involves the increase of... taxes.

Hopefully for Mr Bechu, one of his possible competitors for the Angers municipal ballots of 2014, Jean-Luc Rotureau, member of the Conseil général and deputy-mayor of Angers, does not seem to have something better to offer. But, for him, the most important is not to get a brilliant idea, but to have something to criticize, just at the right moment, to his possible opponent. So what is financially at stake at the Conseil général is politically very important at Angers city hall.