The Cabárceno Nature Park will inaugurate the new elephant viewpoint next week, so that visitors can observe the largest herd of pachyderms in the world outside their natural habitat. It has had an investment of more than 70,000 euros and its entry into service was announced this afternoon in the Plenary Session of Parliament by the Minister of Tourism, Luis Martínez Abad, in response to questions from the PSOE about the consequences of vacancies in management positions in Cabárceno. , Alto Campoo, Cantur and other tourist facilities dependent on that public company.
Cantabria plans to close the current budget year with a debt of 3,250 million euros, 18.8% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the region
The also head of Culture and Sports has denied that there was “sloppiness or abandonment” in any of them and has warned the opposition that it is not going to make a “political battle” of “personal decisions” of workers, such as the resignation of the director of the Park, Elena Palacio, who will be replaced by Michel Valdés. As for Cantur, after the departure of Martínez Abad to the Ministry, the appointment of the new director will take place in “ten or twelve days.” As highlighted by the head of the department, these entities are characterized by being “healthy”, “social peace” and “visitor records”, since all of them, except the ski resort, which depends on the snow, have received so far this year almost 880,000 visitorsabout 100,000 more.
Besides, Until September, 584,000 have accessed Cabárceno, a figure higher than the 536,000 in the same period of the previous year.and only in July and August there have been 46,000 more visits. In parallel, the counselor has highlighted the economic balance of the Park in the first nine months of 2024, which has amounted to more than 5 million, and has emphasized that in the facility “only complaints from visitors have decreased”, which They have dropped from 152 to nine, according to comparison.
Regarding Alto Campoo, Martínez Abad has indicated that A stabilization process is planned to keep the current director: “I would be sorry if they took her to another station,” she said to praise the management of the Cantabrian Cristina López, who represents the “talent of the land.”
MUNICIPAL INVESTMENT PLAN
In the plenary session, the head of Public Works, Roberto Media, has also been questioned by the regionalist spokesperson, Pedro Hernando, about the deadlines foreseen in the approval of the decree regulating the call for the Municipal Investment Plan for the period 2024-2026, and that According to the head of the Ministry, it will receive light “imminently”, in the last Government Council of this month (on October 31) or, at the latest, in the first meeting of November.
He has highlighted that will be endowed with almost 27 million (26,975,000 euros) that will be distributed based on the criteria of the previous decree, which are maintained because they are considered “objective”, although some aspects have been modified, such as the basic proportion of investments, which goes to 80% in the Government compared to the 20% of the municipalities, something “very good” for the mayors, who will thus be able to pay for up to three municipal actions.
At this point on the agenda, the ‘popular’ and the PRC deputy have engaged in a scuffle by attributing works in progress to the current or previous Government, respectively, and in which Hernando has called Media a “trilero”who for his part has denied that he is a “sectarian or partisan advisor. I am not. I will keep quiet about others,” he has settled.
PCTCAN HEALTH
In the afternoon session, the development of the Health Science and Technology Park was also discussed, and about which the head of the branch, César Pascual, has indicated that the dismantling project for the Cantabria Residence is being drafted.. And after admitting that “complications” have arisen that were not expected and why this process is going to be “much longer than expected,” he indicated that the steps to be taken must be “reconsidered” and “redesigned.”
In any case, he has defended that progress continues in the constitution of different working groups and management bodies, and has emphasized the interest and contacts of multinational companies, two of them from the United States. It has also taken advantage of defend public-private collaboration, something “normal” in biomedical researchand has assured that “nothing that does not fit” in the Science Law will be done.
PUBLIC DEBT
In another order of things, Cantabria plans to close the current budget year with a debt of 3,250 million euros, 18.8% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the region, and lower than the amount with which it ended the previous year: 3,316 million, 19.9% of GDP. This was announced by the Minister of Economy, Development, Regional Financing and European Funds, Luis Ángel Agüeros (PP), when responding to a question from Vox, formulated by deputy Cristóbal Palacio, about actions to reduce the public debt of the autonomous community.
In his speech, the ‘popular’ has referred to the evolution of the debt since 2015, which has been growing “continuously”, and has indicated that to reverse this upward trend and turn it into a “real” downward path, not only by percentage of GDP, have been launched actions and strategies that “make it possible to optimize debt needs to the maximum of the entire autonomous public sector, avoiding going overboard in the formalization of debt not only of the administration, but also of all entities of the institutional public sector”, clarifying in any case that there will be no cuts in this area, but “on the contrary “.
He has also advanced that the draft Budget Law of Cantabria for 2025 “will contain the necessary and sufficient amounts to settle the existing amortization commitments, as well as further reduce the outstanding amounts”, especially when the available amount exists in the accounts and that exceeds the non-financial expenditure limit, 3.2%, it must be used entirely to amortize the pre-existing debt.
CEUC COMMENTS
Finally, the spokesperson for Vox, Leticia Díaz, has asked the Minister of Education, Sergio Silva, if he condemns the comments of the vice president of the Student Council of the University of Cantabria (CEUC) published on social networks and that supposedly “criminalizes men”.
The head of the Ministry has said that he was unaware of these messages, which do not appear in an official profile or channel, and has indicated in any case that he “never” shares “anything that goes against respect, tolerance and freedom”, after which the deputy has criticized the “lukewarmness” of her response, since she hoped that the Government would be “just as resounding” as in her opinion they were when condemning the homophobic tweets spread on the CEUC account at the beginning of this year.
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