relegated last place. For the second year in a row, Alicante will be Region Spanish to receive from central government less investment per capita in the whole country. It is discrimination that exacerbates the infrastructure gap that has pushed the boundaries for decades.
And the 160.8m euros submitted in the General State Budget project, which Finance and Public Duties Minister María Jesús Montero presented to Congress yesterday, not only represent the worst figure in history for the state, but they are barely collected. to an investment 85.5 Euros per resident, according to Ineca calculations. a very distant amount national average, what will happenand 283.7 eurosand placing Alicante at the bottom of the classification and quite far from the penultimate one, jaenWill have 110 euros According to the same sources, government investment per capita.
It should also be noted that this figure represents a state. 12.3% cut Regarding the investments envisaged in this year’s Budgets, where 97.7 euros per capita was allocated by the Central Executive Board, it is far from the 274.7 euros envisaged for the national group.
Of course, at least last year, Generalitat managed to get the transfer commitment from the government through compensation. extra 300 million to autonomy through innovative mobility policies and two specific agreements that should be used for the development of sustainable infrastructures. that a money still waiting for fateanyone.
Faced with this situation, Ineca regrets Alicante’s dismissal,” he said.ignored by the central government, leaving behind in investments that will eventually become u,A ruin for businesses and citizens from these lands that they have seen trains pass by for almost twenty years.
The head of this cabinet, Nacho Amirola, He has shown concern about this new crime and said, “budgets are an excellent tool for governments to correct imbalances and inequalities, but when they consistently marginalize a region, as in our case, they become heavy tools. hinder the normal development of our economy”.
Thus, remember that rent per person one of the provinces lowest with from Spain €20.116 While it averaged 26,417 euros in 2019. In this context, Ineca, who does not hesitate to attribute this difference to the lack of investment in the region, draws attention to the fact that the per capita wealth in Alicante has grown by 10 points below the average in the last 19 years. Specifically, 29.6% compared to 39.52% for the country as a whole.
They make a request from Ineca from representatives of all political parties. common facade to encourage the central government to increase investments in the province of Alicante equitably and to reduce comparative unfairness with other regions in a balanced way.
The state’s deficit with the state of Alicante, if this estimate is met, 3,539 million Euros since 2008.