The state realized only one third of the budgeted investment in Catalonia in 2021

The distance between the investment budgeted by the state for Catalonia and the investment actually carried out has never been as great as it was in 2021. Specifically, the State barely managed to realize just over a third of the regional investment budgeted for Catalonia last year. (35.7%) and this was primarily due to the negligible performance of the items assigned to the task. public railway infrastructure enterprise (ADIF).

In total, the State invested 739.8 million euros in Catalonia compared to the budgeted 2,068. So, according to the General Government Response (IGAE) report released this Tuesday on the land allocation of state public sector investment in 2021, there are 1,328 million people turned into dead letters.

Not all communities are the same. On average, the State executed 67% (two-thirds) of programmed investments. Considering regionalizable investments, execution percentage increased to 71%, almost double the result obtained in Catalonia (35.7%). Moreover, some communities are even greater in crime when compared to others: while the state realizes only 35.7% of the budgeted investment in Catalonia, inside Madrid almost doubled; In particular, the State realized 184% of what was budgeted in the Madrid community.

Specifically, the actual investment made Community of Madrid In 2021, it increased to 2,086 million euros, while the budgeted amount was 1,113.8 million euros, representing an execution of 187.3%. Thus, investment in the Community of Madrid (2,086 million) almost tripled (739.8 million) investment in Catalonia (739.8 million).

Minister of Economy, James GiroHe described the low level of government investment in Catalonia in 2021, the worst in the historical series since 2015, as “sad, disappointing and surprising”. In his view, this “injustice is horrendous” data is “bloody, persistent, and humiliating” enough to call for it. “Catalonia is a new European state.“.

The lower level of implementation of state investment in Catalonia has been a verifiable fact in recent years, but has never reached the level reached in 2021. According to a report from the IGAE reports prepared by the Ministry of Economy and Generalitat’s Hisenda in 2019, the level of execution of state investments in Catalonia was 10 percent below the Spanish average for the period 2015-2018. For the communities as a whole, the total investments made represent 75.3% of the budgeted, while in Catalonia the rate naturally increased to 65.9%, far from the 113.9% recorded by the Community of Madrid in the same period. fell. . Far beyond the 65.9 average execution in Catalonia, the 2021 data falls short at 35.7%.

in 2020 There was no new State Budget (previous extended) and the series cannot be completed. However, the 2020 data allow us to conclude that only 9% of the total regionalized investment is realized in Catalonia, well below (half) the 18% that corresponds to the Catalan community according to the Statute.

this Statute of Catalonia It determines that the state should direct a percentage of regional investment into the community of about 19%, similar to the weight of autonomy in the Spanish economy. In recent years, the socialist government has made efforts to meet this legal requirement in the State Budget, but the reality of budget execution is far from this requirement if in the end only a third of what is budgeted is implemented.

Analysis of IGAE data makes it possible to determine where the largest budget deficits are concentrated in 2021. Regarding Catalonia, the data points to: ADIF. The public rail infrastructure management company had planned to invest a total of 1,200 million (492 million including high speed) in Catalonia. Of that total, only 191 million were executed, which is only 16% of what was budgeted.

They also failed to execute 108 million of the assigned total. State Ports; nor 172 million of the 262 appointed colorbelief. Among other examples, the 42 million allocated Enaire o 3.4 of the total budget allocated in favor of the Institution World Trade Center Barcelona.

Source: Informacion

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