Alicante Provincial Council approved the largest budget in its history, with the entire opposition voting against it

The budget debate, which occupied one of the important issues of the ordinary general assembly session in February, turned into everyone being against the PP. While the people’s party displayed a conciliatory tone and wanted to emphasize that they approved twenty of the around 2 million amendments submitted by the opposition, the left party questioned issues such as the low realization of real investments last year. Refusal to join the party, which the socialists set at 10 percent Cooperation Fund The elimination of the state surcharge on the Generalitat, or Tax on Economic Activities (IAE), one of the biggest warhorses of the last term in office between Carlos Mazón and Ximo Puig. Vox spokesperson Gema Alemán moved his speech to more ideological topics such as equality, Valencia and bullfighting, and criticized on several occasions the PP’s support of the Benidorm Festival, where the song Zorra by the band Nebulossa won.

PSPV spokesman Vicente Arques stated that he thought the PP paralyzed the country. Committee. “The budget is a reflection of continuity and paralysis,” the socialist lamented. According to data presented by Arques in his speech, his group submitted 87 amendments worth 1.3 million, representing 0.44% of the total budget, and 15 were accepted. The socialist criticized the Provincial Assembly’s existence as “the goose that lays the golden eggs of tourism” and expressed the hope that it does not turn into a real estate company, referring to the ongoing projects of congress palaces or headquarters in Alicante, Elche. and forget Benidorm and municipalities with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants.

The subsidy to the fishing sector was praised by Compromís’ spokesman, Ximo Arques, who quickly stated that he did not like the budget and thought “it was not the one who wanted to do it.” government team». He defended this recently by stating that “Mazón used the Provincial Assembly as a springboard.” The Valencians’ representative believes that the current president of Consell “is using the suspension of fiscal rules due to the pandemic to carry out projects that have nothing to do with the recovery” and regrets the suppression of the IAE.

Vox’s criticism pointed in a different direction than that of the left. “This is a budget that allocates money to unnecessary and ideological areas,” an Ultra spokesman said. A representative of Abascal’s party stated that it did not allocate resources to encourage the use of the accounts. digital tools among the elders, to security in the agricultural field, to the protection of churches or to the Alicante bullfighting school.

The government team opened the discussion with first vice president Ana Serna and closed with president Toni Pérez. Serna emphasized that this was the highest budget in history and assured that “the opinion of all groups was taken into account.” The President spoke in a similar manner and emphasized that: absolute majority on their own “dialogue was practiced and bridges were built.” Finally, he expressed his wish that the Provincial Council “continue to be the pioneer of every municipality in the province.”