HE 2024 draft budget With just over ten days until the end of the year, it has still not been announced in the Alicante Provincial Council and meetings between the government team and the opposition have not yet taken place. Meanwhile, the People’s Party and PSPV-PSOE, the two most represented groups in the provincial institution, are facing each other for the accounts of the next twelve months.
It all started with the appearance of the socialist spokesman this Wednesday. Vicente ArquesIncreasing pressure on budgets and criticizing the government team for betting on large municipalities with infrastructure such as Congress palaces of Alicante and Elche And headquarters of the institution It will be implemented with the purchase of properties in Elche and Benidorm. Arques condemned this fact ironically and asked the following question: «Has the Provincial Council become a real estate agent?». PP’s response came through its spokesman: Ana Serna, Who defended the bet on real estate before? “Lack of investment” from the central government in the province and accused the socialists of being “more interested in boycotting themselves for their internal problems than in improving the lives of citizens.”
Arques was summoned once again president Toni Perez, A call was made to initiate “necessary negotiations” for the preparation of the Provincial Assembly’s 2024 budget. socialist spokesman, “poor execution” of the institutionWe predict that this rate, which was 33% at the end of the third quarter of the year, will be 44% at the end of 2024. “Only four out of every 10 euros are spent by the Provincial Council, of which 3 euros correspond to personnel and current expenditure chapters.” Finally, he asked whether the payment had been made. 77 million for properties in Alicante, Elche and BenidormTo the detriment of giving more aid to smaller municipalities with the fewest resources.
In PP’s response, it was argued that the Provincial Council should undertake these projects since the province was in the cluster. General budgets of the state and in the changes made to PSPV after the general secretary also put the finger on the sore spot, Ximo Puig, announced that he would be leaving. This was why Serna accused socialists of boycotting each other. «They criticize projects that they considered a priority a few months ago. They no longer remember the effort PSPV put into this institution. They will speed up the operations of the Elche congress palace. “This is how we agreed with Carlos González,” the vice president added.