The Andalusian Government, which presides Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla (PP), has planned a 21.5% increase in the budget for health concerts for next year. This figure is well above the global increase in accountswhich stands at 4.4% and also of the complete health budget, which grows by 6.9% compared to 2024.
The data is extracted from the comparison of the figures of what the regional budget law – whose project Moreno Bonilla’s cabinet sent to Parliament this Tuesday after approving it – calls “health care with external means.” In 2024, this item, according to the law, amounted to 413 million euros, while by 2025, according to the bill, it already exceeds 500 million: It stands at 501.8 million. The increase is 88.8 million euros. That’s where that 21.5% comes from.
The million-dollar concerts with private healthcare are in the eye of the hurricane of Andalusian politics. A judge has opened an investigation into emergency contracts due to the pandemic and its extensions. Furthermore, the opposition and the tides accuse the Andalusian Government of practicing a growing privatization of healthcare, with millionaire disbursements to the private sector. The deterioration of public health in Andalusia is the second of the problems of the autonomous community after the strike.
The Treasury estimated the increase in funds for the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) at 980 million euros, which, according to the PP, “It will allow, for example, to increase the structural health workforce in Andalusia by almost 7,000 people. from 2025″.
Social spending
The Moreno Government plans to allocate 30,903 million euros, 63% of the budget goes to social spendinghealth, education, employment, equality, families, housing, sports and culture of every euro of the budget goes to social policies and the health budget already exceeds 15,000 million euros.
“We seek to continue transforming Andalusia through accounts that are close to reality and focused on management to address the most urgent needs of Andalusians such as health, dependency, education, employment and housing,” said the Minister of the Treasury. Carolina Spain.
The budget amounts to 48,836.2 million euros. It has been prepared, according to the Treasury, with Andalusian GDP growth forecasts for next year of 2.4%. In it, investments, What is allocated to infrastructure and productive spending stagnates: 5,804 million eurospractically the same figure as in the 2024 accounts, when there were 5,803 million, according to Europa Press.
“5.8 billion is an important amount. If you want to improve healthcare, what needs to be increased is current spendingwhich are not investments,” Spain justified.
The Treasury Minister complained that she has “with limited resources” because Andalusia receives every year 1,522 million euros less than what would correspond by the current regional financing system. The PP will approve them without problems, because it has an absolute majority. Spain followed the manual and spoke of “dialogue”, “consensus” and a hand extended to the opposition to accept its proposals.
Tax gifts to the rich
The opposition is considering presenting amendments to the entirety. For the PSOE, the budget has “more money than ever, more resources than ever, more income than ever”, but “The money that comes from other administrations is spent less than ever.” Thus, for the deputy Maria MarquezMoreno “is in a full-speed race privatizing and dismantling public services.”
“It’s not worth saying,” he added. Marquez— today that the Budgets are presented, we are faced with historic accounts and the day after tomorrow, when they are approved in Parliament, cry again and say that they have no money and that they have no resources, and that Pedro Sanchez mistreats Andalusia.”
For the spokesperson for Por Andalucía, Inma Nieto, this Tuesday is “Groundhog Day”: “Once again they are presented as historical Budgets, of historical growth”, when “the reality is that accounts” are “totally dependent on State transfers.”
Nieto has also denounced the “gap that the regional coffers already have as a result of tax gifts“which, as has been explained, the president of the Board “continues to make the rich”, which “amounts to the amount of 1,747 million euros.”
To provide that figure, IU calculates, according to a summary sent to Público, the following: “All community budgets include the Tax Benefits Budget (PBF). This can be defined as the coded expression of the decrease in tax revenue which, presumably, will occur throughout the year, as a consequence of the existence of tax incentives oriented to the achievement of certain social and economic policy objectives”.
For 2024, adds IU, “Article 5 of the Budget Law of the Junta de Andalucía indicates that tax benefits in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia It is estimated at 10,098.9 million euros that we stopped collecting through bonusesexemptions on both transferred taxes and own taxes”.
“The involution is clear. In 2018 [último año de Gobierno del PSOE] With a total budget of 34,685 million, the GDP was 5,928 millionrepresenting a relative weight of 17.1%. And in 2025, with a total budget of 48,836 million, it is 10,098.6 million (20.7% relative weight of the total), therefore increasing with respect to 2018 by 4,170 million euros,” the text adds.
Then he emphasizes the calculation in this way: “In these years of the PP’s mandate, the weight of the Fiscal Benefits Budget has increased by 3.6% [del 17,1% de 2018 al 20,7% de 2025] which would be proportionally a difference of 1,747 million euros. “This would be the figure for the fiscal hole.”
For Adelante Andalucía, “this Government has presented a budget that is on the way to turning us into a society, a more insecure and more unstable Andalusia”, in the words of its spokesperson, José Ignacio García. “If the budget meets the expectations we have, which are dire, we will present an amendment to the entirety, of course,” he added. Garcia.
“We believe that the Andalusians deserve a Government that gives them security and stability. But This Executive is more into themselvesin the stability of their parties, in the stability of their pockets and in that of private healthcare, large companies and a minority.
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