• The general secretary of the PP of Andalucía, Antonio Repullo, warns about the AIREF report, according to which "the General State Budgets are not realistic, neither in the forecast of income nor of expenses", while "he does see the forecasts as feasible Andalusian”
• "Mrs. Montero's Budgets discriminate against Andalusians compared to other communities"
• "They punish Andalusia both for the low degree of execution in water works and in the programming of new infrastructures"
The general secretary of the Popular Party of Andalusia and deputy for Córdoba, Antonio Repullo, reiterated this Thursday in parliament that "the General State Budgets are tremendously unfair to Andalusia because they do not respond to the real needs of Andalusians" and "only respond to to the electoral interest of Sánchez ”. "They were born flawed and they are not at all realistic in their forecast of income or in that of expenses", he has had an impact, "according to what AIREF has said for the second time, which also foresees a scenario of technical recession".
However, he has assessed that this independent tax body "does consider the economic forecasts of the Juanma Moreno government to be feasible, which foresees a growth in Andalusian GDP of around 1,9%" and, in his opinion, that "is the result of hard work of a serious, rigorous and sensible government such as that of the Junta de Andalucía”.
During the defense of the PNL registered by the parliamentary group of the PP of Andalusia on the repercussion of the Bill of General State Budgets for 2023 in Andalusia, Repullo has emphasized that "the budgets of Mr. Sánchez and Mrs. Montero punish Andalusia in fundamental issues such as the low investment in water works, the lack of programming of new infrastructures and in the investment per inhabitant”.
In line with this, he has denounced that "in such a delicate moment of extreme drought as the current one, investments for the Guadalquivir hydrographic basin are reduced by almost 12% and forget vital infrastructures, such as the desalination plants of Carboneras and the Axarquía in Malaga, or the Alcolea dam”, among others. In addition, Repullo has made the Socialists ugly that "when we give them the opportunity to rectify, as was the case this Tuesday in the Senate, where we proposed correcting that cut for the Guadalquivir basin, Mr. Espadas and his group voted in against".
Thus, Antonio Repullo has snapped at the PSOE bench: "tell the 250.175 farmers who are seeing how their harvests diminish or lose their crops due to lack of water, or the 13.744 farmers who are slaughtering their animals, that they works that are their responsibility have to continue waiting, that now their needs do not touch ".
In contrast, the parliamentarian of the PP of Andalusia has applauded that "the Andalusian government advances 50% in urgent hydraulic infrastructures that are not within its competence", he stressed, "but that, even so, it undertakes them because they are vital for the Andalusians" .
Also in terms of infrastructure, Antonio Repullo has affirmed that "the PGE do not respond to the real needs of the Andalusians" arguing that "we cannot understand that they allocate the ridiculous amount of one million euros to the AVE in Huelva, a project valued at 1.200 millions". "At this rate, it will take 30 years before it becomes a reality", he lamented while also criticizing "the scam of the century in Seville with the SE-40 bridge or the study for the railway connection between the airport and the station from Santa Justa, who know that the Board has already done it, but even so they double the expense and lengthen the terms of a project that they do not plan to execute”.
On the other hand, the general secretary of the Andalusian PP has stressed that “it rains, it pours. These budgets punish Andalusia once again by not including the Transitional Compensation Fund, which other presidents of socialist communities have also requested, and which would allow us to gradually recover the more than 11.000 million euros that we have lost due to a financing model that it has been shown that it harms us", he pointed out that "this is corroborated by various independent organizations that place our Community third from the bottom in financing per inhabitant".
"But it is that, in addition to this unfair financing system for Andalusia, they also harm us by not executing more than half of the investments this year and they discriminate against us in the distribution of funds as important as those for employment", where he pointed out that "only 64 euros are allocated to each Andalusian unemployed compared to 171 for each person from Extremadura". “Is it that the Andalusian unemployed deserve less opportunities than others”? ”, He asked himself.
In short, grievances that the popular ask the central government to correct in the aforementioned PNL, in addition to proposing that they "give up their unbridled tax increase, deflate the personal income tax rate once and for all, lower the VAT on basic foods and reschedule the European funds, allowing the autonomous communities to participate to better take advantage of this enormous opportunity that the EU offers us to solve the most urgent problems we have”.
