SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 10 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, has expressed his concern this Tuesday regarding the “uncertainty” surrounding the General State Budget (PGE) for 2025, which necessitates his administration to create “cautious” regional budgets.
In answer to a query from the Mixed Group during the Parliament’s oversight session, he also conveyed his apprehension that “under-the-table agreements” might form in a “clandestine” manner, without the autonomous communities being adequately informed.
In this context, he remarked that “it is not encouraging news” that for the second year running, the budgets have not been presented and the Government “has not fulfilled its responsibilities,” considering that numerous plans, such as educational infrastructure, hydraulic projects, the renegotiation of highway agreements, and the revision of transport costs, rely on the Canary Islands.
Clavijo furthermore condemned the “inequitable criteria” employed when developing the regional accounts, as despite tax revenue “performing well,” not all resources can be allocated to public services, whose situation may “deteriorate” depending on the progression of the ‘Catalan quota’.
AHI spokesperson Raúl Acosta has warned that “the lack of a political majority” in the Cortes could render it “impossible” to establish a PGE for 2025, stating that uncertainty is the most unfavourable scenario, which would also adversely affect the ‘Canarian agenda’.
