The local assembly of Izquierda Unida Castro-Urdiales demands from the government team a study on the origin of the residence deficit municipal before raising public prices for beds. “Adopting a position without knowing whether the weight of the deficit is concentrated in direct care for patients or in other spending concepts is already a mistake, but for this to be affirmative seems to us to be reckless in which the majority of families It’s going to cost them a lot to make ends meet, since it will mean a disbursement of 4,500 euros extra per year on average, which we do not agree with at all,” points out the IU coordinator.
UI does not share the position of the government nor that of its coalition partner, Podemos. In a statement, the local coordinator of IU, Pablo Villasante García, has indicated that this issue “has been debated” at the internal level of the coalition, but in which “There are different positions between both parties where Podemos, even in commission, came to propose an increase of 23%, which is the CPI accumulated between 2011 until today, plus 5% for the next 3 years, without having previously raised it with Izquierda Unida, who advocates keeping them frozen and not “make a decision until the City Council provides more information about the state of income and expenses of the Municipal Residence.”
Villasante García expresses that “We are always cautious” when it comes to raising rates, taxes and public prices that have been frozen for many years as has recently happened with water and, at the same time, “we defend that a public service does not have to have an economic return, but it does have a social return, as happens, for example, with the bus.” He considers that “it is not the same” to suddenly update the CPI and the water rates that add 7 euros more to the bill and “believes” that almost all families can cope; to suddenly update the price of the Residence beds, which amount to 4,500 euros “in a service in which it is assumed that it is municipal and where it is intended that the families be the ones who maintain the service and not the City Council, which is the one who must ensure the service and maintenance.
“Investing in health is essential and even more so when it comes to older people who need to be cared for 24 hours a day with pensions, in many cases scarce where the working reality decades ago was different where, for example, women were not inserted in the labor market since they were responsible for taking care of their sons and daughters,” says Villasante García.
The statement ends by calling on the coalition partners, Podemos, “to review the internal regulations of pact and decision” signed by both parties since they consider that “it has been breached.”
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