Andalusia accuses Spanish government of losing €24 billion

The Spanish government is failing to manage, leading to a loss of funds for Andalusia. According to the government's spokesperson, if the government in La Moncloa focused on managing instead of other things, Andalusia would have received €24.7 billion out of the €140 billion allocated to Spain by the EU. The government is leaving the autonomous communities, including Andalusia, without support regarding a crucial tool like the budget. The Minister of Health is going to bring health centers across Spain to the brink of collapse during a flu epidemic. The government has renounced €60 billion from the Recovery Plan, which reveals the failure of a fund management model that has been denounced since its inception and means that Andalusia has lost more than €24 billion. However, the Junta de Andalucía will not allow itself to be dragged down by the "indifference with which the Sánchez and Montero government moves." While we are finalizing the budget process here in the Government of Spain, they remain paralyzed - oblivious to the precariousness around them - and insist again and again on a supposed budget that never arrives, on a spending ceiling that does not have enough support to pass it, and on a debt write-off that only separatists have requested and which cannot be used to pay for social services. The minister stated that a "fiscal mismanagement of this magnitude" has never been seen in Spain before. Regarding the issue of European funds, it is a model, according to the spokesperson Carolina España after the Council of Government meeting, that was "done behind the back of the autonomous communities and without an agreement with the town halls." According to the spokesperson, the mismanagement of Sánchez and Montero is not only suffered by the autonomous communities. She also emphasized that neither Andalusians nor Spaniards deserve "this chaos that Sánchez and Montero are dragging us into." She suggested that the administrations best positioned to execute the funds were sidelined, as well as the citizens who visit a health center. Spain has reminded that it has been three years without a State Budget and we also do not know what will become of the spending ceiling, which so affects the autonomous communities when making decisions. "This week, the Plenary Session of the Congress of Deputies will most likely once again reject the budget stability and public debt targets for all public administrations set by the Government of Spain," she said. This is, in her opinion, "a way of governing that threatens to plunge public administrations into chaos." On Wednesday, the Junta de Andalucía complained that the government "is going to lead to chaos" in health centers by not reaching an agreement to avoid the doctors' strike. The electricity tariff hike that the government is preparing for January is not a bill, but a 10% increase that will complicate the lives of many Andalusian families and which she has described as an "absolute heist." "Without a budget, without a spending ceiling and even without European funds." While here in Andalusia an agreement for public sector workers was closed yesterday, the Ministry of Health was forcing doctors to go on strike to defend their working conditions. In the end, as we see, everything has consequences for the country and for the day-to-day lives of families. Of the €4.19 billion allocated to Andalusia, €3.716 billion had been executed by September, which represents an execution rate of over 88%. In this regard, the spokesperson stated that Andalusia will denounce and claim what is due to it.