SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Nov. 7 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, defended this Tuesday the “prudence” and social orientation of the 2024 budget, which the NC-BC and PSOE call it “nonsense” and “unbalanced.”
In response to questions from the opposition forces in the parliamentary control session, he pointed out that the distribution of the accounts is the “most appropriate” given the situation of “uncertainty” and he hopes, however, that it “will be improved.” in parliamentary procedures.
He has pointed out that in the Executive they do not design budgets so that the opposition “likes it” but rather “taking into account real spending” and trying to “reset the nonsense” of the last legislature, with many “holes”, mainly in the Health area.
“We are not going to deceive people, of course the councilors want more resources and we are going to improve them,” he indicated, stressing that in specific items such as those received by the universities, despite the fact that there is criticism, each center will receive more than 2 million more each.
“We have carried out an exercise in realism, transparency and prudence and we will keep promises in the legislature, you have three pages of non-compliance,” he told nationalists and socialists.
Clavijo, who has censured the acts of vandalism suffered at the PSOE headquarters and has called for “dialogue and understanding”, has accused the president of the Socialist Group, Ángel Víctor Torres, of being “melodramatic” and practicing “apocalyptic speeches” when in the ‘ Pacto de las Flores’ “did not comply with many things, left things undone and with the highest expense in history, insufferable and indecent waiting lists.”
For this reason, he has asked the opposition to let him apply the budget, which “will be improvable”, since he has only been in charge of the Executive for 115 days.
Luis Campos, spokesperson for NC-BC, has said that the budgets are an “anthology of nonsense” because it is “impossible to do worse”, a “summit work” of budgetary “nonsense” crowned by the “deception” of not lowering the IGIC .
FIELDS: LEAVE MANY SECTORS “BADLY PLACED”
Along these lines, he has indicated that with 1,121 million more income they leave “many sectors in a bad position”, in the case of the Canarian Employment Service, the primary sector, the Equality area, the Tax Agency or the cooperation funds, apart from the fact that they fail to comply with more laws. sectoral than in the entire history of the autonomous community.
“It is impossible to grow and leave so many people so dissatisfied and disoriented,” he indicated, putting on the table that this budget is as if the Executive itself had “imploded” from within.
Torres has pointed out that the budget grows by more than 1,100 million due to the 2022 settlement, which was “much higher”, and a spending ceiling where 98% of budget execution is progressing. “If not, the accounts don’t work out,” she commented.
He pointed out that “there is no balance between social areas” because “they are going to spend much more” on health, on education “they are moving away” from 5% of the GDP, education from zero to three years is not met, “they fail to comply” the social services law or the dependency “goes ahead of the shellfish.”
On the other hand, he has indicated that “what is growing the most” are political expenses, at a rate of about 8 million a year. “It is your well-being, not the budgets that the Canary Islands need,” she explained.
