The Minister of the Presidency and the Mayor of Molina discuss the District Plan during a visit to the town
As in the meetings of maximum rivalry between Nadal and Federer, the presentation of the Plan de Pedanías turned this Friday into a tennis match between the Minister of the Presidency, Marcos Ortuño, and the mayor of Molina, Eliseo García. It was not a typical press conference that took place at the door of the Campotéjar Alta church because, on three occasions, the two contenders approached the press microphone stand to exercise their turn to reply. And all this on account of municipal and regional funding.
The Molinense councilor began giving tow, after the Minister of the Presidency, Tourism, Culture and Sports explained the keys to the district plan.
García questioned that the 443,178 euros that the Autonomous Community allocates to Molina for the districts in the 2022-2023 period are “insufficient”, compared to what the City Council contributes: five million. And for this reason he remarked that “we need a greater commitment from the Community for the districts and a municipal financing law because we assume improper powers that are poorly financed.”
By allusions, as if it were a plenary session, Ortuño approached again to pick up the glove and counterattack. “The mayor does what he has to do, but I tell him that for this the Region needs to receive more funding from the State because our Autonomous Community is the worst funded,” he remarked. And for this reason he asked the mayor of Molin that “because of his status as mayor of the fourth city in the Region and because of his ideological affinity with the President of the Government, he demands this improvement in financing.”
Then the mayor reacted, as if he were going up to the net of the central court of Roland Garros, to counteract the blow. “I take the gauntlet, but we must also remember that this regional financing law was approved with a government of Ramón Luis Valcárcel, who did not negotiate properly,” García denounced.
And Ortuño returned the ball in this “improvised debate”, as he himself described the situation. “There is no need to go back to the Catholic Monarchs,” said the counselor sarcastically. “The truth is that there is a government in Spain of the Socialist Party that must address an issue, which it does not address, and that is the need to improve regional financing,” he replied.
And the mayor finished off the play with a new counter, when the duel was already dissolving. “You have to claim it, but having things clear and remembering that Mariano Rajoy had time to have fought for more funding for the Region,” he said.
Outside the microphones, the two politicians still insisted on delimiting their political ideology, but immediately smoothed things over while agreeing on a visit to one of the Campotéjar Alta roads that will be fixed thanks to the District Plan.
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Regarding this plan, Ortuño reported that 443,178 euros are allocated to the districts of Molina for two years, 2022 and 2023. This year the funds are distributed, for the most part, in the reconditioning of streets and paths of different districts of the municipality that, given the large number of them within the municipal term, require conservation due to the deterioration caused by the passing of the years.
After the meetings held by the mayor, the councilor and municipal technicians with the different village mayors, the priorities in their territories were marked, and the actions to be carried out were agreed upon in accordance with the budgetary limitation marked by the amount of the subsidy itself. On this occasion the districts that will benefit from this plan are Campotéjar, El Fenazar, Comala, El Rellano, Los Valientes, La Ribera and El Romeral.
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