SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 25 (EUROPE PRESS)
President of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, affirmed on Thursday that the failure to approve the deficit path of the central government in the Congress of Deputies, leading to a standstill in the elaboration of the General State Budget (PGE) for 2025, creates “indecision” and hampers the delivery of services.
Clavijo, speaking to reporters during the opening of the Psychosocial Rehabilitation Centre in La Palma and addressing Junts’ stance on the vote on the central Executive’s deficit path, viewed all of this as part of the “negotiation process of the Presidency in Catalonia”, which is rendering it “impossible” to reach specific agreements.
All of this, he pointed out, comes at a time when Spain already has its budgets prolonged until 2024, leading him to state that “all this achieves is harm to the citizen because ultimately you are faced with indecision, you cannot create a scenario,” noting that his administration is working on the 2025 budgets.
Nevertheless, he conceded that under the current circumstances, there are certain segments of the investment budget that “cannot be enforced with the extended budgets,” reiterating that all of this results in “indecision.”
He described the fact that the “spending path” has not been endorsed as “unfortunate news” since it raises the spending limit and, for instance, in the Canary Islands, which is “the healthiest autonomous community in the entire State”, it restricts its ability to “continue delivering public services” due to the “constraint of the spending regulation”.
“We are the least indebted, we are among the few that have ended this first half of the year with a surplus, and, unquestionably, once again, the climate in Madrid appears to taint and affect everything, thus turning us into a problem for citizens, rather than the solution,” he concluded.
