This Thursday, the regional government cooled Vox's expectations about carrying out the reform of the Mar Menor Law, which those from Antelo want to take to the Regional Assembly next week. Marcos Ortuño, spokesperson for the Executive, said that they maintain their position, reluctant to modify the current law, arguing that they will not take a step back in the defense of the lagoon.
As he explained, the regional government is not tied to supporting Vox in the Assembly either with the coalition pact or with the budget pact. “We have already said it on more than one occasion, it is a proposal to reform the Vox law, which is being processed in the Regional Assembly,” said Ortuño. When asked if the Government's position has changed, he responded that “it is exactly the same and has not changed a single bit.”
Regarding the Adjustment Plan that the Region needs, Ortuño explained that if it is necessary it is due to regional underfinancing. «We are the worst financed autonomous community. In the last 15 years we have received almost 11,000 million less from the State than what would correspond to us and this underfinancing is responsible for 95% of the public debt.
In any case, he wanted to make it clear that the Community is opposed to this underfinancing being paid by the citizens of the Region with the worst public services in Health or Education or Social Policies. “On the contrary, we are the second autonomous community that invests the most in health, in relation to its GDP, and the fifth that invests the most in health in relation to its population,” he said.
At this point he returned to the speech that holds the State responsible for “denying” resources to the Region of Murcia. In fact, he cited the 71 million that have not arrived from the payments on account of the regional financing system committed for this year, while the central government spends 2,000 million from the fund of communities and local entities to buy Telefónica shares.
«It is a Government that does not convene a Fiscal and Financial Policy Council to address the reform of the financing system. It is urgent to reform it, to adopt structural measures so that the Region of Murcia stops being the worst financed community,” he concluded.
Asked about Pedro Sánchez's housing policy, Ortuño summarized his response by saying that the president does not fulfill what he promises and instead does what he says he is not going to do. He refers to the promise of building half a million apartments of which nothing has been heard from again or the 900 in Carraclaca, Lorca. “He does not have a Housing Plan, but rather occurrences,” he stated.
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