The Minister of Justice, Didier Migaud, announced Thursday to AFP that he had obtained for his ministry an additional envelope of 250 million euros as part of the 2025 budget project, partly reversing the cut of nearly 500 million contained in the executive’s initial project.
The Minister of Justice welcomed this arbitration which, according to him, will allow “to honor and respect all the commitments that have been made towards magistrates, court clerks, legal assistants, prison staff” during the vote on the Justice programming law in October 2023.
This law, promoted by the former Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, promised the hiring in five years of 10,000 people, including 1,500 magistrates, 1,800 clerks and 1,100 justice attachés. Around 1,550 jobs are expected to be created in 2025, or 1,000 more than planned in the ceiling letter.
The Minister of Justice warned after Michel Barnier’s announcement of the 2025 budget that he would not remain in government if the justice budget was not improved.
Didier Migaud added that certain credits initially planned for the real estate program and in particular for the construction of new prison places will not be mobilized, specifying that the project of 18,000 additional prison places was not abandoned but rescheduled.
“We are going to launch a truth operation”explained the minister. “I will note that a certain number of operations which were planned will not be able to be carried out, and therefore will not require the mobilization of the credits and commitment authorizations which had been planned”.
Satisfied with the favorable arbitration from which his ministry benefited, Didier Migaud recalled that “the justice budget remains modest” and that she must “become a priority again”.