- The Andalusian railway map, the great outstanding debt of the central government.
- The Deputy Secretary of Organization of the Popular Andalusians warns that "if Andalusia stops, Spain also stops", which is why he demands that the Government that the State Budgets include the pending investments in the Andalusian railway map
“If Andalusia stops, Spain stops”. This has been warned by the Deputy Secretary of Organization of the PP of Andalusia, Alexander romero, this Thursday during an appearance before the media, in which has asked the Sánchez Government in general and to the Andalusian Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, in particular that “abandon the wall policy in Andalusia” and that the next State Budgets include the pending investments in the Andalusian railway map.
Collaboration between administrations
The popular Andalusians consider It is essential to review the Andalusian railway map so that Andalusia can continue to be a competitive community, both in the field of passenger transport at a business and tourist level, and in the freight transport sector. For this reason, taking advantage of the fact that the Government is immersed in the process of preparing the General State Budgets for 2024, Alejandro Romero has sent a direct message to Minister Montero “that she is Andalusian and cannot forget again the numerous pending infrastructure on this earth, and that has to be executed once and for all.”
Romero urged the minister to "collaborate so that the most populated community and, therefore, with the greatest social and political weight in the country, continues to advance in its transformation and continues to be one of the main engines of Spain."
“And what we ask of Sánchez in this sense is that, first of all, he abandons the wall policy that he marked in his investiture speech,” says Romero, “when he said that his mission is to build walls against those who do not think like him, against those of us who reject his pacts of privileges with the independentists.” As he has pointed out, “We Andalusians are not willing to be second-class citizens” and has reiterated that “in Andalusia we are going to fight to prevent that State of inequality that Sánchez intends to impose, with first- and second-class citizens.”
The railway map, key to the future of Andalusia
The vice-secretary of Organization of the PP of Andalusia has defended that Andalusia needs to continue growing to consolidate itself as one of the communities that has prospered the most in recent years. “The Government of the Popular Party of Juanma Moreno The Board is achieving it, but it cannot do it alone," he indicated, "but it requires the collaboration of the central government to support this change that began five years ago and that has made Andalusia one of the engines of the national economy." .
Thus, he recalled that One of Sánchez's greatest failures in Andalusia is the expansion and improvement of the railway map. He explained that "while the Board advocates for sustainable mobility with a strong commitment to the metro, the tram and projects that facilitate the interconnection of population centers, the PSOE Executive makes clear that it has up to 21 shelved projects, fundamental for the social and economic growth of our community.”
In his opinion, it turns out “It is incomprehensible that in the XNUMXst century Andalusia, the largest and most populated autonomous community in Spain, still has five of the eight provinces without Cercanías service, not even half a distance between them.” And he has pointed out as “especially serious” the “railway isolation” that Jaén suffers.
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"The central government cannot continue looking the other way"
Likewise, Romero has stressed that “the lack of infrastructure is combined with the fact that Renfe services are deteriorating every day, the thousands of users affected by the delays are not informed; The abandonment is alarming and affects all services, from Cercanías to High Speed trains to Medium Distance trains.” “The railway service in Andalusia does not work and the Government cannot continue looking the other way”, he remarked.
Alejandro Romero has insisted that “It is essential that the Sánchez Government carry out these 21 pending works now” of the Andalusian railway map, among which he has outlined the new access to Almería capital, the connection of this province with Granada, the bypass of the AVE in Almodóvar, the renewal of the line between Algeciras and Bobadilla or the accesses to the ports of the State and logistics areas, among others. And at this point he wanted to remember that “Motril is the only port in the State without a train connection.”
We demand that the Sánchez Government include the pending investments in the Andalusian railway map in the State Budget.
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– PP of Andalusia (@ppandaluz) December 28, 2023
“How long will we have to wait, gentlemen of the PSOE?” asked the Deputy Secretary of Organization of the PP of Andalusia. “And where are the Andalusian socialists and Espadas when it comes to demanding better trains and services for this land?” He continued to say and then stated that “luckily for the Andalusians, In the Popular Party we have another way of doing things".
Faced with Sánchez's paralysis, the Andalusian path to progress
Thus, he stated that in the face of Sánchez's abandonment, "it is worth highlighting the work of Government of Juanma Moreno en the Andalusian Government, that has launched seven large infrastructures that had been stopped for more than ten years such as the Bahía de Cádiz Tram, the extension of the Granada Metro, the Jaén Tram, the arrival of the Málaga Metro to the city center, Line 3 of the Seville Metro or the Alcalá de Guadaira Tram, and also "has taken the first step to unblock other works as relevant as the burying of the AVE between Murcia and Almería."
“The difference between one government and another is abysmal,” he stated, ensuring that “Juanma Moreno in the Board has done more in five years for sustainable mobility in Andalusia than the PSOE has done in four decades”. In fact, the Andalusian Government will allocate 1.114 million to transport infrastructure policies in 2024, 49,74% more compared to 2018, the last year of socialist management. Thus improving, within its powers, the Andalusian railway map more than the central government.
Consensus and dialogue
Finally, in that sense, he has valued “consensus, dialogue and the will to permanently listen to citizens as the pillars of this Andalusian path that the Government of Juanma Moreno is putting into practice and which has led, among other things, to budget of € 46.753 million, the highest in history and focused on the needs of citizens.”
Some accounts that, as he has argued, are committed to water to try to stop the impact of the drought, without forgetting health, education and dependency. Some accounts that They could be even better if the Government "did not subtract 1.000 million from Andalusians every year as we are an underfinanced community.", money that we could use to improve public services.
