“For every euro that public education grows, concerted education grows two”: the left rejects Moreno’s accounts

The left, which is in the opposition in Andalusia, rejected this Wednesday the budget presented by the Government of Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla (PP), which has an absolute majority. They did so in strong terms and both Por Andalucía and Adelante have announced separate amendments to the entirety.

For Inma Nieto, spokesperson for Por Andalucía, the accounts serve to “private health and education companies become rich“and not for quality public services. “They show very clearly the privatization path of the PP,” said Nieto.

The criticism focused on the treatment of two of the fundamental pillars that the Andalusian Government deals with, health and education, to which half of the budget is allocated. “For every euro that the public health budget grows, the private health budget grows by three euros.. For every euro that public education grows, concerted education grows two,” said Nieto.

The spokesperson refers to the following accounts. While the amount allocated to Health increases by 6.9%, that allocated to private concerts increases by 21.5%. AND While the budget allocated to the Ministry of Education grows by 3.5%, the amounts for concerts in the infant and primary stages increase by 8% and in secondary, high school and vocational training 8.6%.

The commitment of the Andalusian Government to increase the weight of education in private hands, fundamentally Catholic, is evident: year after year and little by little, it goes in crescendo.

In relative terms, the subsidized school took place year after year during the PSOE governments, around 10% (tenth up, tenth down) of total spending on education. Last year it already reached 11.5%. The concerted network had grown by 22.5% between 2018 and 2023according to data provided by the previous counselor, Patricia del Pozo, today in Culture.

Nieto has also drawn attention to pharmaceutical spending, which accumulates “one in every three euros of the budget of the Andalusian Health Service” and has pointed out the “long-term battle” that the left maintains with the Government after it liquidated the auction of medicines and “refused to implement mechanisms that allow acquisition at significantly better prices, alleviating a growing part of the cost faced by the SAS.”

For Adelante Andalucia, the accounts “delve into the privatization of healthcare.” “There is a massive referral to the private sector,” said deputy Maribel Mora. The parliamentarian has stated that “the increase in the health workforce is pyrrhic” and has pointed outA 16.9% increase in the salaries of senior SAS officialswhich has been quantified as 325,000 euros more for managers.

“The health problem is going to be dumped on Primary Care,” Mora analyzed. The deputy criticized the Ministry of Health’s forecasts to increase, as she said, “by 1,350,000 attendances” in Primary Care.when they are already overwhelmed“. For Mora this will be “the last straw to end Primary Care.”

Moreno highlights the “efforts”

For his part, the president defended himself against criticism and sold the “effort” of the regional administration to improve the situation of Andalusian public health.

Moreno appealed to “some sectors of society” so that, in addition to “criticism so that we improve,” also take into account “the number of things that are done dailythe number of lives saved and the enormous treatment given by health professionals.

Today there are concentrations of health professionals, called by four unions. The Tides also mobilize and organize a demonstration for next November 17 in the eight provinces.

The president considered that in Andalusia, since the PP governed, “countless progress has been made at all levels.” “But,” he admitted, we still have problems and challengesand we are at it. We are not going to stop doing it, because it is our challenge: to try to improve our public health service every day with the resources we obviously have,” reports Europa Press.