HE Municipal Cooperation Fund The Generalitat will contribute 50 million to the 2024 regional budget. Consell decided to increase the resources of the investment plan tied to the Presidential domain by 10 million, so the endowment will increase from 40 million to 50 million. PP points out that this action aims to allocate more resources to the fight against population decline in the Valencian Community and provide more resources to small municipalities, following the same strategy that the Provincial Council of Alicante used with Plan + Cerca during its mandate. with Carlos Mazón As president. PSPV-PSOE, on the other hand, condemned Consell’s increase of the Cooperation Fund after opposing the model supported by Botànic, and expressed regret that distribution criteria for municipalities were not determined, creating further uncertainty. .
The Cooperation Fund has been one of the biggest controversies between the PP and PSPV in recent years and represents a major institutional conflict in recent times with the administrations headed by Mazón. Ximo Puig. At the end of September, the Constitutional Court declared two articles of the investment plan invalid, one of them unconstitutional. Autonomy Status not following the same criteria that are followed at the state level. The Provincial Assembly objected to the sectoral plans of this program for 2023 and 2024 before TSJ. PSPV, on the other hand, registered a non-legislative proposal (PNL) with the Cortes to encourage the Provincial Council to transfer 141 municipalities. The resources that the province did not allocate to them were discussed with the Cooperation Fund and the NLP at the session on October 25 and were ultimately rejected.
In addition to increasing the Cooperation Fund resources by 10 million, Consell allocated a special item of 4.3 million from the 2024 budget to combat population decline. “The Presidential budget is about defending municipalism. The closest administrations deserve to face solvency challenges and have regional support,” says the Minister of Finance. Ruth Merino. The PPCV general secretary adds: “We were against Puig’s project, which does not respect the autonomy of the councils, and we will change the way he manages it.” Juan Francisco Pérez Llorca.
The 25% increase in the resources allocated by the Generalitat to the Cooperation Fund did not go unnoticed by PSPV. Socialists question whether Consell will now increase its allocation by 10 million following Mazón’s opposition to the project supported by Botànic. “PP contradicts municipalism. Vote against our proposal and do it in the budget now,” says the regional MP. Ramon AbadDr. also stated that the fact that the criteria to be followed in distribution have not been determined causes uncertainty in municipalities. Accordingly, popular ones point out that the biggest problem municipalities face when preparing their 2024 accounts lies in the spending limits since the central government is still in office. This is the same argument the Provincial Council president used. Tony Perezwith provincial institution budgets.
According to State PalacePrecisely, PSPV insists that the province of Alicante compensate its municipalities for the approximately $100 million it has not allocated in recent years due to PP’s refusal to participate in the project. Botanical.
Source: Informacion
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