SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, December 16 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The groups that support the Government of the Canary Islands –PSOE, NC, Sí Podemos and ASG – have finalized the 2022 regional budget this Thursday with the approval of the opinion in parliamentary committee that will be endorsed next week by the Plenary of Parliament .
More than 1,000 partial amendments have been submitted to the accounts designed by the Executive and a total of 56 corresponding to the opposition groups – CC, PP and Mixed – have been approved, the majority ‘traded’, they have complained since the ranks of the nationalists and popular.
The quadripartite groups have presented 145 amendments that move slightly more than 52 million.
In total, the budget bill totals 9,098.3 million, 7.3% more than this year –624.2 million more – with 75% of non-financial spending allocated to social policies and public services.
Ricardo Fernández (Cs) has made a brief intervention to clarify that his votes represent his party and not the entire group – which he shares with the exporter of the orange formation, Vidina Espino.
For ASG, the deputy Melodie Mendoza has defended that the accounts are “balanced and solidarity between territories”, including 100 million euros for La Palma, and dedicate three out of every four euros to public services while her colleague Jesús Ramos has highlighted the “arduous” work of the ministries to balance the games.
Manuel Marrero, spokesman for Sí Podemos, has valued the support for the islands included in the PGE and has called the Canary Islands budgets “prudent, realistic and committed to society”, geographically balanced and that “put an end” to austerity with increasing of social spending, taking as an example the hiring of 126 people for the Social Rights area.
Luis Campos, spokesman for NC, has valued that the budgets will help the “reconstruction” of La Palma, highlighting the tax reductions for victims, while he has said that the accounts are generally oriented to R + D + i and the promotion of renewable energies, and in line with the objectives of the ‘Reactive Plan’ and the 2030 Agenda.
Fernando Enseñat, from the Popular Group, has regretted that only 11 amendments are approved out of 321 and has charged against some “unreal” budgets that do not support the productive sectors and respond to the “arrogance, conformity and passivity” of the four-sided.
THE PP ACCUSES OF “PASSING THE ROLLER”
He has accused the groups of “going on the roll”, something that has been revealed by the blockade in the admission for processing of a set of amendments that advocated lowering taxes due to a “rigorous interpretation” of the regulation. “The parliamentary debate is curtailed,” he added.
Socorro Beato (CC-PNC) has criticized that the budgets “do not take into account” the economic situation, “are not prudent or credible”, and are not correct in the priorities or in achieving the “balance” between public services and generation of economic activity.
He pointed out that only two genuine amendments by his group have been approved, one on the protection of water and the other on the Fuerteventura reserve – the rest, more than twenty, are ‘traded’ – and he believes that a greater budgetary effort for La Palma.
For the Socialist Group, Matilde Fleitas has highlighted that the accounts consolidate the “stabilization” of public services after two years of “uncertainty” while Iñaki Lavandera has highlighted the “veneer of responsibility” of the quadripartite groups for incorporating amendments of the opposition to the text.
However, he pointed out that the majority were “unviable” because they canceled items “essential” for the functioning of the autonomous community, some of them even “produce blush”, underlining that the budgets underpin a sustainable economic growth without to raise the taxes.
