Varapalo to Consell of the High Court of Justice of the Commonwealth of Valencia (TSJ). The Fourth Contested Administrative Affairs Office has temporarily suspended the execution of the Generalitat agreement, which obliges the Alicante County Council to contribute 13.4m euros to the Municipal Cooperation Fund for 2023. especially for Carlos Mazón, in which he starred main institutional conflict with Ximo Puig, head of regional Administration and Consell. It is precisely in an election year that the new law will come into effect, thus freeing the PP to approve their budgets with the C’s. In fact, Presidential vice-president Eduardo Dolón claims that the order endorses the autonomy of the Provincial Assembly “against the imposition of Ximo Puig and his associates”, while Toni Such, generalitat local government director general regrets that the popular “continue to marginalize the towns of Alicante”, so he announces that he is appealing.
The Alicante Provincial Assembly government team, led by the People’s Party, with the support of Ciudadanos, decided last October to appeal to the TSJ to request a precautionary suspension of the Consell-promoted Cooperation Fund. The law governing this plan compelled the provincial institution to allocate 13.4 million euros from its budget for next year to be distributed among the provincial municipalities. However, the legal services of the Provincial Assembly published a report with the following conclusion: Both Consell’s agreement and the said law violated the Constitution and the Autonomy Act.Therefore, it was decided to file this appeal.
Well, then, without getting to the heart of the matter, which will be examined in the Constitutional Court, TSJ accepted the request for a temporary suspension of the funding contribution of the provincial institution. prevent “hard-to-repair damage” To the plaintiff in the event that the objection of unconstitutionality is finally accepted.
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In particular, the judges stress that the required contribution “irreparably squanders the already planned or conceived expenditure policy for 2023 in favor of the municipalities of the province of Alicante”. such a requirement to not receive this target change of such resources. Also, this fact, according to TSJ’s claim, It undermines the real powers and functions of the Provincial Council to support the financial needs of the municipalities. The province thus adheres to one of the main arguments of the PP, particularly for those with limited economic resources and hindering them from fulfilling their economic aid duties.
It is also emphasizedCompensation for such damages cannot be accepted. As we come to the end of the 2022 fiscal year, this contribution will need to be deducted from the 2023 budgets, given the advanced stage of preparation of the 2023 budget and the requirements of the disputed agreement. It prevents municipalities from obtaining planned and necessary financing to pay their citizens for aid services, unless injunctive relief is taken.
For all these reasons, the court decides to stay the execution of the appealed agreement; this means that the Provincial Assembly with PP at the helm wins the first round where institutional conflict is the main cause. with the council.
One thing that Eduardo Dolón does not hesitate to poke in the chest is stressing that the precautionary suspension “assumes judicial support for the autonomy of the councils against attempts to control the Generalitat trio”. In his own words, he underlines that the municipalities with the least population benefit from the distribution systems of the Provincial Assembly and that this is the “priority of the institution”. With all this, Dolón urges Ximo Puig to “correct the way he does politics”He added that they continue to extend their hand to the dialogue.
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Toni Such, PP’s “Justice of Our Community Continues to discriminate dramatically against the municipalities of the state of Alicante” he adds, “they do not deserve in any way the Provincial Assembly they have, and above all the party that governs it.” For the Consell representative, “again, in the face of a Generalitat, which he stresses is committed to the Co-operative Fund” from the perspective of “justice and impartiality”, he detours sources. they continue to distribute it”. In this sense, there are such developments that Generalitat is already working to file an appeal.
The car gives the green light to the original version of the budgets
Uncertainty about the TSJ’s decision forced the Provincial Council to prepare two budgets for next year. An original version without the $13.4 million item for the Collaboration Fund and a plan b where that amount should be included. Therefore, the judges’ decision to temporarily suspend the contribution of these funds leaves open the way for the provincial institution to execute the original version, provided, of course, that the appeal now announced by the Council is accepted.
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