The Community justifies the loss of almost 60% of the Central Government Solvency Fund in that “the requirements were excessively strict”
The Autonomous Community will have to return 85 of the 142 million from the Solvency Fund allocated by the central Government to the Region for direct aid to entrepreneurs, freelancers and cooperatives for losses in this sixth wave of Covid.
The Murcian government spokesperson, Valle Miguélez, explained that the Executive has been forced to initiate the process of returning these funds “because the requirements were excessively strict.” Miguélez blamed Pedro Sánchez for “denying” those 85 million to Murcian companies, “which belonged to them under the Business Solvency Fund.” And he acknowledged that “they have not been able to be executed” due to the requirements for their distribution, for which he blames the central government and its demands that 59.85% of the subsidies have not reached “into the pocket of our businessmen, of our self-employed and our cooperatives ”, as the Government of López Miras and other regional executives have been denouncing since March.
“There are 85 million euros that prevent us from allocating to direct aid plans for companies with losses due to this sixth wave of Covid, as requested by the head of the Murcian Executive, Fernando López Miras, at the Conference of Presidents last week” , laments Miguélez.
Miguélez asks Pedro Sánchez to allow these aid to be allocated “to continue fighting the pandemic”
The central government demands the return of these 85 million euros without executing and whose fate, Miguélez criticizes, “has not yet been clarified either by Pedro Sánchez or by Vice President Nadia Calviño.”
“We do not know what they are going to do with 2,500 million euros that, from now on, will come back from all the autonomous communities,” commented the regional government spokesperson, who assures that the Murcian government will be “vigilant.” and it will denounce “any maneuver that threatens the interests of the entrepreneurs and the self-employed in the Region.”
The Murcian Executive is not going to consent, says Valle Miguélez, that the central government “deny this money from a new aid plan for this pandemic and then divert it to partisan interests, as they did with the 9 million euros from the Employment Service” .
For the regional government, «it is very painful to have to return these resources so necessary for our productive fabric, when Pedro Sánchez has had in his hand for almost a year the possibility of avoiding reaching this situation that the Region is going to suffer and many others communities ”.
Thus, he calls “once again” to the State to allow the autonomies, in the absence of Covid funds, to allocate these 85 million euros to “continue fighting the pandemic and its consequences.”
The Governing Council promotes connectivity in industrial estates
The Governing Council, in its session yesterday, Wednesday, approved allocating more than two million euros to strengthen connectivity, with very high-speed broadband networks, in industrial estates and logistics centers in the Region.
In addition, the Council extends the health benefits agreement with Muface and approves the Code of Conduct on subsidies and public aid.
Heritage. The regional Executive gives the go-ahead to an agreement with the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda to implement the plan for the rehabilitation of regionally owned public buildings, for 15.2 million euros from the ‘Next Generation’ funds.
Environment.. The Council authorizes a grant of 300,000 euros to draw up the projects, studies and analyzes for the actions aimed at eliminating the presence of mud and mud on the beaches of the Mar Menor area of Cartagena.
Business. The Governing Council allocates 280,000 euros, through the Info, to the Croem to develop the Incoova Program in 2022 and 2023 to promote entrepreneurship among university students, scientists and researchers. And it dedicates another 200,000 euros to promoting the incorporation of companies and the consolidation of projects in Cartagena.
Commerce. It dedicates almost 150,000 euros to improving and modernizing Ifepa and the Yecla Furniture Fair.
Universities 30,000 euros are allocated to support the Industry 4.0 Chair of the UPCT and 30,000 euros to the Chair of Innovation for Smart Specialization of the UMU.
Fishing. They approve a subsidy of 30,000 euros to the Sanitary Defense Group of the Aquaculture Sector of the Region to apply health and animal welfare measures.
Municipalities. The Governing Council also allocates 200,000 euros to the municipalities of the Mar Menor to promote their tourist resources; and 490,000 euros to repair the Francisco Fernández Torralba sports complex (Caravaca de la Cruz).
Culture. It allocates 60,000 euros to the UPCT to draw up the Master Plan for Cerro de San José in Cartagena; 48,000 euros for the restoration of the La Almoloya deposit (Pliego); 44,000 euros to repair the roof of the Hermitage Casa de Cristo (Moratalla); and 29,463 euros to the documentary treatment of the archive of the Murcian Association of Friends of the Railroad.
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