Alarms are ringing again Among Alicante’s business community. While the uncertainty resulting from the last election isn’t good for anyone, it could end badly for the state Greatly affected by the paralysis of administrative activity What causes the government to be in office? Especially as everything shows, The current situation forces us to expand the existing General State Budgetsor they relegated Alicante last year It ranks last in investments per capita.
A practical situation impossible to fix without new public accounts, Allows the inclusion of new projects. On the contrary, an extension only allows updating some games – such as civil servant pensions or civil servant salaries – or continuing the construction of infrastructures that already have multi-year allocations but cannot be made new investments as requested by the province.
Although the Government has not yet officially acknowledged that an extension is the only option (according to the official version, efforts are being made to confirm the appointment as soon as possible after it is completed), just a few days ago the vice president himself Nadia Calviño tried to downplay this possibilityto ensure that it does not hinder economic growth. In any case, the calendar is already playing against us. Management to approve public accounts We should have set the spending ceiling last July and the Budget project must be submitted before the end of September to allow time for parliamentary proceedings, which usually take up to three months. Like this It seems unlikely they will be ready on January 1. In any case, they could be approved by next year, with the start of implementation, as was the case after the election of Mariano Rajoy. Of course, if there is no repeat election.
Thus, the president of the autonomous employers’ association CEV, Salvador Navarrois aware of the situation “very worrying” for the state, because this means: A new delay in the planning and implementation of the infrastructure Alicante needs. “This leaves us behind once again, but who do you turn to to make suggestions for improvements in the current situation?” Navarro said. he asks.
In any case, entrepreneurs want to start press as soon as possible and they will try to lay the groundwork by influencing all political groups using the CEOE commission regarding relations with the Cortes. They also trust the following organizations: AenaCompanies that are not dependent on this approval of public accounts can move forward with their own initiatives and especially their projects. Second part of El Altet what employers demand.
In the same vein, the head of the Institute of Economic Research of the Province of Alicante (Ineca), Ignacio Amirolais described as for “very negative” citizens According to him, expanding state budgets means a loss of opportunity to address the grievances experienced in recent years. Thus, this organization, which is one of the most challenging investments for Alicante, 3.535 million euros Considering the population, the state’s investment deficit in the province since 2008.
Extension according to Ineca «will further delay the state’s socioeconomic recovery It is postponing some infrastructure that has “already been committed to the 2023 State Budget” and which it considers “vital”; Among these, he mentions the third lane of the A-70 between Alicante and Elche, which is a copy of the N-332 variant in Torrevieja, the AVE from Alicante to Valencia, the Mediterranean Corridor, the train from the coast to Benidorm or the railway axis from Alicante to Murcia improving and others.
From the perspective of the two main political parties, the PP does not hesitate to take advantage of the situation to attack Pedro Sánchez, whom he blames for the problem. «Sánchez used Budgets and financing as follows: a means of rewarding or punishing“The province of Alicante has already punished us with cruelty,” says the popular MP. Macarena MontesinosErdoğan insisted that if the current accounts are extended, it will remain in the 52nd place in investment per capita and will be condemned to “abandonment”, and continued as follows:
For his part, deputy speaker of the PSPV in the Valencian Cortes and former Minister of Finance, Spaintries to alleviate the situation and provides Yes, there is room for action. Undertaking new investments even if accounts are extended, although he admits the process is more “burdensome”. In any case, he argues, Valencian socialists will continue to work. get new investments Key to the province, such as the airport rail link or water infrastructure.
The worst public accounts in history for Alicante
The General Budget project presented by the government for 2023 envisaged the lowest State investment in Alicante in history, with only 160.8 million euros. This figure relegated the province to last place in investment per capita, with only 84.5 euros compared to the national average of 283.4 euros, or the biggest beneficiary province, Soria, at over 1,100 euros. The proposal sparked outrage in Alicante and led to two rallies being held to condemn the situation, one called by the Chamber of Commerce and the other by all social actors. Protests first led the Executive Board to ensure that the actual investment figure was higher because close to 69 million in railway projects and water infrastructure were not taken into account, and then led various groups to propose changes worth 51 million. parliamentary process. In any case, these amounts did not remove the province from the last places in investment.