- The secretary general of the PP of Andalusia points out the ignominy of Sánchez in making the DANA aid conditional on the approval of the General Budget: “He has been governing for six years by issuing a decree law every two weeks. Are we really going to wait four months to activate the aid, when there are other immediate mechanisms?”
- He believes that Andalusia does have a “realistic budget” that responds to the priorities of the Andalusians, presented in a timely manner, but he recalls that “the 1.522 million euros of underfunding that neither Sánchez nor Montero want to hear or talk about are missing.”
“The heart of the Popular Party is with Valencia, with the victims of the flood, with their families, and with all the people who have lost their homes, their businesses, and their life projects.” This was stated by the secretary general of the PP in Andalusia, Antonio Repullo, who also added that “if politics is useful for anything, it is to rebuild what nature has broken, to guarantee a future for people who are suffering.”
For this reason, he has argued that, in addition to observing the due mourning, what he has been doing in the Andalusian PP is “putting our party at the disposal of those who needed it most. These were not days for microphones, but rather for putting ourselves at the disposal of the Valencian Community, for the calls, for loading the vans and for helping, as far as possible, the true and sad protagonists of this catastrophe.”
Thus, he pointed out that “while the Popular Party of Andalusia was completely dedicated to easing the pain and channelling the solidarity of society, the rest of the parties followed their political agenda and wanted to take advantage of this brief emotional truce to continue attacking the Government of Juanma Moreno”. Meanwhile, “the PSOE paid for a campaign on social networks to impose someone responsible. A story in which Pedro Sánchez wants to pass himself off as a victim, when those really affected have been the people of Valencia, they are the ones who have suffered the painful loss of children, parents and friends”, he stressed.
In addition to all this, Antonio Repullo highlights “the last chapter of ignominy, the penultimate one knowing Pedro Sánchez”, which is “conditioning aid to Valencia to support from the General State Budget”. “The DANA has generated a case of extraordinary and urgent need”, he explains, “and for this the Constitution already includes it in article 86 that allows the Government to dictate provisional legislative provisions that will take the form of a Decree-law”.
In line with the above, Repullo recalls that “Sanchez has been governing for six years by means of Royal Decree. He has been the president who has approved the most Royal Decrees, he has more than 140, one every 15 days” and now “suddenly the Royal Decree Law is no longer valid for him in a national emergency”.
Approving a budget requires a minimum of three months at best. If a budget is submitted at the end of November, it would not come into force until March or April at best. “Are we really going to wait four months to activate aid when there are other immediate mechanisms?” he questioned, adding that “the precedents show that it is not necessary to wait for new budgets. The COVID pandemic of 2020 was managed with budgets carried over from 2018.”
Rigorous budgets to continue building the Andalusia of the future
In other news, the secretary general of the PP in Andalusia has publicly asked all parties to leave tactics aside and speak seriously and rigorously about “how we are going to continue building the Andalusia of the future.”
In this regard, he has valued the draft Budget Law of Andalusia for 2025. “Addressing these accounts means setting objectives, strategies and guaranteeing a future for our people. Andalusia is moving forward and doing so by managing with transparency, with rigor and listening to the citizens.” And he emphasizes: “the Budgets for 2025 are another example of the commitment that our party has with this land.”
“Unlike Pedro Sánchez's government, which has no budget and is not interested in dialogue, Juanma Moreno does listen to the other parties and to the citizens,” he said, stressing that “the absence of a general budget will cost Andalusia one billion euros. Money that will remain, once again, in the limbo of Sánchezism, where unfulfilled promises and unused European funds also rest.”
Repullo states that “Andalusia has financial muscle and it has it thanks to the daily exercise of efficient management. It is not just about collecting, but using those resources with head and heart, prioritizing, as it cannot be otherwise, public services. That is, in the quality of life of Andalusians.” On the contrary, he points out that “the Sánchez Government feels a real fiscal voracity. It collects more and more, but it spends worse and worse. With opacity and without budgets.”
Repullo regrets that “the autonomous communities are, at this moment, in charge of plugging the holes that are sinking the ship of Pedro Sánchez's Government. Where he does not reach, due to incapacity and neglect, the autonomous communities do.”
He also says that “we have seen the example of the socialist botch-up in managing public money in Andalusia. Here, María José Montero, a councillor who is now a minister and gives lessons to our Government, opted for inflated, opaque budgets full of holes”. “Between 2013 and 2018, the socialist governments announced almost ten billion more in investment than they executed”, he recalls. And he adds: “When the PP came to power, all they found was debt, abandoned projects and improvised and deficient management that has taken a long time to repair”.
Now, as he has said, “Juanma Moreno and his government give an account, euro by euro, of the real expenditure. And they do not do it in broad strokes. Rather, they do it clearly and in detail. Unlike previous socialist governments, which stopped provincialising.” “Our government has presented figures and a timetable, municipality by municipality, of what their execution will be. Ours is a serious, mature and useful policy for the citizens,” he stressed.
He also stated that “the 2025 Budget is the largest and most social budget in the history of Andalusia. It has grown by more than 2024% compared to the 2018 and 40 budgets. It is a realistic, expansive and committed budget.” “It is the Budget for Social Policies, which is why 6 out of 10 euros are allocated to them.”
“Compared to those approved by the socialist governments, this Budget demonstrates the priorities of Juanma Moreno's Government: 45% more in Education, which means more teachers, more institutes; 55% more in Health, meaning more health professionals, more health centres; 101% more in Development, more housing, more roads, and also 65% more in Inclusion, which includes Dependency.”
In short, these are budgets that show “more commitment, more responsibility and more resources than the Andalusia of the PSOE”. “It is a budget presented as it should be, when it should be and where it should be. Unlike Pedro Sánchez's budget, which we no longer have for this year”.
“It is a realistic budget,” he stresses, but warns “that it is missing 1.522 billion euros. The 1.522 billion that is the deficit of the central government's financing with Andalusia, and which Pedro Sánchez and María Jesús Montero do not want to hear about.”
“Where is the opposition when it is time to demand this debt with Andalusia?” he asked, concluding that “in the face of the chaos of the Central Government. In the face of half-truths, broken agreements and this two-speed Spain, Juanma Moreno's Government is committed to stability, certainty and respect for the Andalusians.”
“Better public services. More investment. Better management. More guarantees for the people of Andalusia. And the peace of mind of knowing that Andalusia has its accounts and its map of progress. In contrast to the noise of socialism, the moderation and management of the Popular Party,” he concluded.
Complaint on health contracts: “the PSOE is only trying to cover up its scandals”
Regarding the intervention of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office in the investigation into health contracts, Antonio Repullo explains that "it is nothing more than a formality and a normal step in this type of complaint." "This is the second time that the PSOE-A has tried it and the previous case was closed."
He also stresses that “it is an attempt by the PSOE to cover up its corruption scandals and tarnish the actions of the Junta government”, while drawing attention to the fact that “the sentences for the former president of Invercaria are reduced with Sánchez's reform of the crime of embezzlement, the Supreme Court has charged José Luis Ábalos this Thursday for the irregular procurement of masks and medical supplies during the pandemic, and in this context, the PSOE of Andalusia has the audacity, has the nerve, to give lessons to the impeccable, transparent Government of Juanma Moreno”.
In his view, "the PSOE in Andalusia has no arguments and that is why it is making things up," he said, stating that in the PP in Andalusia "we are very calm and we trust in Justice."
