Dupont-Moretti is committed to increasing the justice budget from 9.6 to 11 billion euros in 2027.

expected promise. The custodian of the seals, Eric Dupont-Moretti, is committing this Thursday to increase the justice budget from 9.6 to 11 billion euros in 2027 during the presentation of his “action plan” prepared by the States General, a source told AFP. source familiar with the situation.

Over five years, this commitment represents an additional €7.5 billion package that will finance, inter alia, the already announced recruitment of 10,000 justice officials, including 1,500 magistrates, and the construction of 15,000 prison beds.

Sixty measures promulgated

According to the Office, these budgetary efforts far exceed those allocated under the five-year terms of Nicolas Sarkozy (+2 billion) and François Hollande (+2.1 billion).

That funding should be protected in the programming and orientation bill that the Keeper of the Seals will unveil this Thursday, according to the same source familiar with the matter, among an arsenal of measures aimed at responding to the “widespread decrepitude” of justice identified in the States General’s report. Among the sixty measures to be announced by the Minister, there are also mechanisms aimed at speeding up civil proceedings and simplifying criminal proceedings.

These eight months of consultations with tens of thousands of professionals and citizens were launched by the executive branch in October 2021 to respond to professionals’ malaise and counter attacks on justice.