After learning about the project last week budget The focus of the 2024 accounts for next year’s Generalitat, presented by councilors in recent days, is now on the Provincial Assembly of Alicante. The opposition is calling on the government team of the People’s Party to speed up the budget restructuring process. “It’s November and we don’t know anything,” laments the socialist group’s spokesman, Vicente Arques.
In this regard, the president of the institution Tony PerezStating that the budget is at the draft stage, the Minister pointed out that the political uncertainty at the national level determines the budget since the central executive is still in office. “We are experiencing the same uncertainty as municipalities. “The government has not transferred the spending limits to us,” warns Toni Pérez, referring to both the spending rule suspended due to the pandemic and transfers for national tax collection.
Other than regretting that no progress was made in November budget issueThe socialist group was the group that made the most noise. Arques had publicly stated many times that he had requested working meetings from the government team and had not received any response. He also stated that the investment in the province of Alicante in the Generalitat budget decreased by 124 million euros this year compared to the last year’s accounts prepared by Botànic, and expressed his hope that the provincial institution could do this. We somehow compensate for this situation.
In response, President Toni Pérez, far from deploring the instability resulting from the fact that the central government has not yet been established, suggested that “realistic” budgets would be implemented with the same argument. defended Council of Carlos Mazón when talking about regional accounts. In this sense, the mayor of Benidorm also aims to make achievable implementation targets possible, unlike what has happened at the State House in other years, rather than ensuring that the budget is not “inflated”.
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The opposition is demanding a series of meetings to find a solution to this situation, and sources from the government team consulted by this newspaper indicate that the meetings will take place throughout this November. The same sources state that there has not been much progress on budget issues in recent days, as Toni Pérez has been on the budget for the last few days. London Fair Tourism sector, where Consell announced the project to abolish the tourist tax, which was approved at the general assembly meeting this Friday.
However, the Provincial Council departments continue to work on the numbers of their own areas to be transferred and grouped together. budget to arrange. Finally, Toni Pérez emphasizes that he will reach out to all political groups to listen to budget proposals.
They state that they have also been asking Compromí for a meeting with the president for some time, and recall that in the previous period their spokesman, Gerard Fullana, reached an agreement almost every year for the Valencian coalition to ratify the agreement. Provincial Council accounts. On this occasion, they require municipality projects to be heard by the government team.
Source: Informacion
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