The Popular Party of Castilla-La Mancha presented a Full adjustment of regional budgets for 2026This is what he considers “continuous” and “far removed from the economic reality of the region.” The parliamentary group’s deputy spokesman, Santiago Serrano, defended this … Decision A responds “Act of Corporate Responsibility” In the face of calculations that, in his opinion, reinforce “the lost decade under the governments of Emiliano García Peg”.
According to Serrano, The draft budget “repeats the same old mistakes”Among them are weak implementation of investments, repeated accounting for projects that have not been realized, and the absence of oversight of public spending. He noted that the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (AIReF) had warned that Castilla-La Mancha would fail to comply with the spending rule in 2025 and 2026.
This was highlighted by the popular representative The community is one of five independent regions that have grown at least since 2019with GDP projections for 2026 below the national average, he noted Castilla-La Mancha has the fourth-largest debt in SpainIt is a debt that he asserts “has not been reduced even in the years of the greatest economic recovery” and has increased by more than 3,000 million since Page came to government.
As Serrano pointed out Deteriorating purchasing power in the region, which is estimated to be 13.44% lower since 2015, with a cumulative inflation rate of 28.3%which is the highest in the country, and A Food prices increased by 46.5% In parallel, the gap in per capita income compared to the national average now exceeds 6,000 euros, and in relation to the European average 13,000 euros.
More collection and less return in public services
The People’s Party condemns that despite this context, andRegional government ‘continues to break tax collection records’With a 6.8% increase in tax revenues by 2026, an increase of 500 million over the previous year. Since Page ruled, heTax revenues per capita grew by 35.6%According to data managed by the parliamentary group.
Celebrities confirm this This increase in income did not translate into an improvement in public services. Serrano lamented that although the spending ceiling is 60% higher than in 2015, the country’s worst health waiting lists remain, saturated primary care, educational centers with structural deficiencies, and strained social services that “manage to survive thanks to the support of city councils and local entities.”
In addition, The People’s Party criticizes the 14.18% decline in real investments and the low implementation of European fundswhose absorption they say is more than 20 points lower than that of societies such as Castilla and León or Galicia.
One of the most important points of modification Complaint that the investment annex excludes about 400 municipalities, most of which are rural and affected by population migration. Moreover, according to the Paris Protocol, €230 million of the document corresponds to projects already included in previous budgets, without starting their implementation.
Serrano considers it This repetition “indicates the absence of planning and the loss of credibility of the accounting document.”In his opinion, it is a “copy and paste process” that turns the budget into “wet paper.”
The People’s Party’s deputy spokesman concluded that after a decade of socialist governments, “Page has only consolidated his stay in power, without improving the lives of the people of Castile-La Mancha.”. For this reason, he defends that the entire amendment “is not a gesture of opposition, but an act of institutional loyalty to Castilla-La Mancha, its people and its future.”
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