As of mid-January, the Alicante Provincial Assembly continues without a budget for 2024, despite the People’s Party governing the institution with an absolute majority. All that is known so far Preliminary draft with draft accounts of the provincial institution. A new meeting with the three opposition groups (PSPV-PSOE, Compromís and Vox) has not been called and there is no date for the plenary meeting at which the budget should be given the green light. At the moment everything indicates that this general assembly meeting will not be held before the end of Fitur, which will take place next week. So everything indicates that the general assembly meeting may go to February unless the government team, which has the majority in the institution that allows it to set the date, does not change. In parallel, PSPV and Compromís met this Wednesday to create a common budget strategy.
What the socialist group has done so far Committee To conduct a special analysis of the preliminary draft budget that the government team led by Toni Pérez announced in the last days of last year. PSPV’s main complaint after examining the figures is that the budget prepared by the PP is partisan, as it supposedly gives priority to municipalities in the province where the popular party is in power. According to research by the socialists, in the case of Benidorm, where Toni Pérez is mayor, Hosbec receives 350,000 euros, while Visit Benidorm receives 90,000 euros. It is true that the socialists did not compare these accounts with those of previous years and did not propose larger contributions as to whether these amounts were commensurate with the activities carried out by the organizations in question.
cultural promotion
The report prepared by the socialist group also mentions one of the cultural promotion programs, in which 38 thousand euros were allocated to the Holy Sepulcher of Albatera, the mayor of which is the first vice-chairman of the Provincial Council, Ana Serna. in case to grant For the Golf Federation, which reached 70,000 euros, only two of the five beneficiary venues belong to the province of Alicante; Benidorm and the municipality of Algorfa, governed by PSPV and whose deputy mayor is Manuel Ros. The report highlights a number of “curiosities,” in the terminology used by the socialist group. These include the allocation of between 300,000 and 450,000 euros to xirimita and tabalet bands.
Complaint expressed by PSPV It goes further and reaches other areas. There are also university students among them. In this context, it was noted that 350 thousand euros were paid to the University of Alicante and 150 thousand euros were paid to Elche Miguel Hernández University within the scope of the resources allocated to the Alicante Digital Intelligence Center (Cenid). When it comes to designations of origin, notable differences are also highlighted, as wine costs 100,000 euros, nougat costs 20,000 euros and medlar costs 7,500 euros.
As for social actions, always to the complaint of socialists, there are three municipalities that received 150,000 euros for senior centers: Biar, Santa Pola and Aspe. In this case, PSPV is the name of both the mayor of Biar, Magdalena Martínez, and the mayor of Santa Pola. PP MPs. Sport is not exempt either, as the socialists have guaranteed that all municipal councils in the province must distribute 650,000 euros, while the Busot residence, where former popular MP Alejandro Morant is mayor, has an allocation of 890,000 euros. In the sports section, Vicente Arques states that the municipality of La Nucia, where the popular MP Bernabé Cano is mayor, has appeared nine times and that many federations are conditioned to the events held in this town.
Historical heritage
PSPV also examined the separation of historical and artistic heritage. In this sense, it is useful to point out the following. 16 projects 15 of the beneficiaries belong to municipalities governed by PP. Finally, the report concludes by denouncing that four out of five municipalities that benefit from drinking water supply are managed by PP. The only person for whom PSPV manages the mayor is MP Ismael Vidal.
Source: Informacion
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