Cette gr\u00e8ve de la faim porte sur les finances de Chamoson. \u00c0 en juger par les comptes, on aurait plut\u00f4t envie de se r\u00e9jouir.<\/p>\n
Les recettes ont augment\u00e9 de 0,7 %. Les d\u00e9penses ont augment\u00e9 de 0,3 %. La dette brute a diminu\u00e9 de 8,6 %.<\/p>\n
Le signal d’alarme vient de la cat\u00e9gorie de d\u00e9penses la plus importante des comptes : les frais de personnel, qui ont augment\u00e9 de 7,8 % et devraient encore augmenter de 8,5 % en 2026.<\/p>\n
Pour comprendre pourquoi cela constitue un probl\u00e8me grave, il faut remonter \u00e0 2024.<\/p>\n
Cette ann\u00e9e-l\u00e0, les recettes ont augment\u00e9 de 13,7 % et les d\u00e9penses de 6,6 %. Dans un contexte commercial, ce sont de bons r\u00e9sultats. Mais dans les comptes municipaux, les d\u00e9penses ne varient pas proportionnellement aux recettes. Les recettes peuvent chuter de mani\u00e8re significative en cas de ralentissement \u00e9conomique, tandis que les d\u00e9penses, en particulier les frais de personnel, ne diminueront pas. Ce n\u2019est pas bon signe.<\/p>\n
Les tendances historiques indiquent qu\u2019un ralentissement \u00e9conomique est imminent<\/a>, et lorsque cela se produira, les recettes de Chamoson en subiront les cons\u00e9quences.<\/p>\n Et puis, il y a le co\u00fbt imminent du traitement de l\u2019eau.<\/p>\n Le r\u00e9seau d\u2019assainissement de la Suisse<\/a> est v\u00e9tuste et croule sous le poids de l\u2019augmentation de la population. Les experts ont d\u00e9termin\u00e9 que le traitement de l\u2019eau est plus efficace lorsqu\u2019il est d\u00e9centralis\u00e9. Le co\u00fbt de cette op\u00e9ration sera \u00e9norme et devra \u00eatre support\u00e9 par les communes.<\/p>\n Chamoson a d\u00e9j\u00e0 commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 mettre en \u0153uvre les mesures fiscales destin\u00e9es \u00e0 financer cette d\u00e9pense, ce qui explique en partie l\u2019augmentation des recettes. Nous n\u2019avons pas encore commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 engager ces d\u00e9penses.<\/p>\n Nous devrions constituer des r\u00e9serves pour couvrir les co\u00fbts imminents du r\u00e9seau d’eau, mais au lieu de cela, nous les d\u00e9pensons en frais de personnel.<\/p>\n C’est irresponsable sur le plan budg\u00e9taire.<\/p>\n Les politiciens ne r\u00e9agissent g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement qu’en cas de crise. Plut\u00f4t que d’attendre cette crise financi\u00e8re, la gr\u00e8ve de la faim vise \u00e0 sensibiliser tout le monde au probl\u00e8me imminent et \u00e0 nous impliquer tous dans la cr\u00e9ation d’un avenir qui \u00e9vite la crise r\u00e9sultant de l’irresponsabilit\u00e9 financi\u00e8re.<\/p>\n English version<\/b><\/p>\n Why the hunger strike is necessary<\/b><\/p>\n This hunger strike is about Chamoson\u2019s finances. Looking at the accounts, they suggest that celebration is a more suitable response.<\/p>\n Revenue is up 0.7%. Expenses are up 0.3%. Gross debts has decreased by 8.6%.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The alarm is the single biggest expense category in the accounts: personnel costs, and that has increased by 7.8% and is budgeted to increase by another 8.5% in 2026.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n To see why that is a serious problem, we need to go back to 2024.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In that year revenues increased by 13.7% and expenses increased by 6.6%. In a commercial environment, those are good results. But in municipal accounts, expenses do not vary in proportion to revenue. Revenue can suffer significantly in an economic downturn, and the expenses, especially personnel cost will not decrease. It is not be good.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Historical trends indicate that an economic slump is imminent<\/a>, and when that happens, Chamoson\u2019s revenue will be impacted.<\/p>\n And then we have the looming cost of water purification.<\/p>\n Switzerland\u2019s wastewater system<\/a> is old and creaking under the weight of the population increase. The experts have determined that water purification is more efficient when it is decentralised. The cost of that will be huge, and must be born by the municipalities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Chamoson has already started to implement the tax policies intended to fund this expense, which explains some of the increase in revenues. We have not yet started to incur the costs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We should be building the reserves to cover the looming cost of the water system, and instead we are spending it on personnel costs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It is fiscally irresponsible.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Politicians usually only respond to crisis. Rather than wait for that financial crisis, the hunger strike is aimed at making everyone aware of the pending problem, and get us all involved in creating a future that avoids the crisis that results from financial irresponsibility.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n More at:<\/p>\n Lettre ouverte \u00e0 M. Reynald Blanchud<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Discours prononc\u00e9 lors de l’assembl\u00e9e g\u00e9n\u00e9rale annuelle de Chamoson le 10 juin 2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Chronologie des \u00e9changes avec Reynald Blanchud<\/a><\/p>\n The health impact of the hunger strike<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cette gr\u00e8ve de la faim porte sur les finances de Chamoson. \u00c0 en juger par les comptes, on aurait plut\u00f4t envie de se r\u00e9jouir. Les recettes ont augment\u00e9 de 0,7 %. Les d\u00e9penses ont augment\u00e9 de 0,3 %. La dette brute a diminu\u00e9 de 8,6 %. Le signal d’alarme vient de la cat\u00e9gorie de d\u00e9penses… Continue reading Pourquoi cette gr\u00e8ve de la faim est n\u00e9cessaire<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,4],"tags":[141,142,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313,"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions\/2313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}