Let’s say it once. Ione Belarra does not like the Imserso program. That thing about old men doing glamorous tourism so the four hoteliers can put on their boots just seems reactionary, old, old to him. I miss an adjective that didn’t come to me, but now I remember the Tajo-Segura transfer and I already know what it is: To Belarra, the Imserso thing should look Francoist (not strange: everything that happens in Alicante looks Francoist to this Government; it should look at it). Of course, the Minister of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda will not know that sending our elders to tourism is not Francoist. because it’s an invention of democracy, especially since 1985, While the Holiday Program for the Elderly, which was implemented for the first time by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, is being implemented, a serious seasonality problem in our tourism sector is also being resolved. For 37 years it has run like clockwork with governments of all kinds. Until you come to Belarus. The Minister has been conscientiously strangling Imserso since he fell into his hands. As the government’s most incompetent, he had no hesitation in leaving the ministry, as everything about the program was shaken by delays in calls, administrative errors, and similar inactions. It would have been more honest to kill him, but perhaps more politically unprofitable. But he chose to kill her slowly. Imserso’s last lace, which Hosbec denounced yesterday, although we are both letters, Belarra and I can understand without major problem. The cost of keeping a hotel open increased by 25%: you know, food, drink, energy, etc. If the program’s subsidy has not increased from €22 per person per day and is the same as before this cost increase, many hotels are likely to lose money if they continue within the program. Hoteliers are asking for 33, but if you look at the first lines of this newsletter (these are my assumptions, but I don’t think I’m mistaken) you’ll understand how these requests come from gentlemen who “put their boots on”. With Imserso”, he enters the very modern Ministry of Dona Ione. Excuse me, directly. When Belarra destroys a socially advanced program that already existed before we were born, we all lose.: 800,000 Imserso users who will not be able to come because there will be no hotels to lose, workers who will not be able to work, and tourism resorts that will miss opportunities. Belarra doesn’t care. So does his government.
And one more thing:
Was the new Minister of Education and Culture, Raquel Tamarit, secretly targeted by a team that threatened the Alicante City Council to suspend the mascletás in Luceros, or was she actively involved in this bullshit? While they play an invaluable role in saying that the Bañuls fountain should be further protected, the UA research they cited is from 2017. It took time, years, even years to rehabilitate the fountain, to bring this discussion up. Making it a few days before the Bonfires start sounds like a bad joke. At least, if the only reasons put forward for wanting the suspension or sudden transfer of a tradition in Alicante that no one in Alicante could understand, like the mascletás in Luceros, are related to the source and its preservation. These matters should be consulted in advance with President Puig, who is the most frequent visitor.
Here are our highlights:
- Hosbec expects Imserso tourism to go bankrupt after the Government’s decision not to raise prices in 2023.
- Consell threatens to ban maskletás on Luceros unless the resource is further protected.