The municipal government of Puerto de la Cruz finalizes its budget proposal for this year, which will be around 43 million eurosfive million more than the last accounts approved by the City Council, those of 2022. This was confirmed yesterday by sources from the mayor’s team, Marco González (PSOE).
The intention of the Portuense Government team is to take the 2024 budget project to the plenary session this month, which will be held next day the 22nd, for final approval. It is the response of the command team to the statement dthe Popular Party, which accuses Marco González of being “a terrible mayor,” that “it does not learn from the mistakes of the past and once again suspends its management in economic matters, given that since the new public accounts have not been approved at the end of 2023, the socialist has necessarily had to decree the extension of the budgets for the year 2022” .
Last year’s budgets were an extension of those for 2022, but this year’s budgets will be updated. The Portuense Government recalls that it has been working since last summer to carry out new budgets that “will continue to be marked by the balance of income and expenses within the objectives set so that the municipal accounts are useful in achieving a fairer municipality, consolidating the aid so that it is an updated tool at the service of the citizens of Puerto de la Cruz,” underlines Marco González.
For this reason, since last August the team from the Economic Development area, led by Councilor Natalia Afonso, has been working with all municipal areas so that the annual accounts for 2024 can be approved in a timely manner. The first weeks of preparation were used for a contact meeting in which to analyze the state of economic health of the City Council, which has a remaining treasury of just over 25 million euros, “so financial stability is guaranteed in the short, medium and long term,” remarked the mayor.
The City Council trusts that the regional and island governments “will continue to invest economically in Puerto de la Cruz,” says Natalia Afonso, “in the large projects led by the municipality,” to “have quality infrastructure that responds to the demands of the citizens of Porto, which is why we continue to call on the rest of the public entities to go hand in hand in achieving new milestones after financing projects that are being carried out such as the Insular Aquatic Sports Center or the Gran Hotel Taoro. .
In the statement sent to the media, the PP spokesperson At the Puerto de la Cruz City Council, Pedro Antonio Campos, denounces that This year’s budgets are being prepared “without counting at all on the participation of the PP”which reflects, in the opinion of the popular ones, “a clear lack of humility and democratic spirit on the part of the current Councilor for Economic Development, along with a more than evident disregard for the more than 4,000 Portuenses who placed their trust in the PP in the past elections of May. The popular ones demand that Marco González “focus once and for all on what is really important, leaving aside the fun.”
