Canovas explained that the line of action of the municipal government will work to stabilize the economic situation and provide stability
The mayor, Juan José Canovas, municipal debt has been estimated roughly 160 or more than EUR 170 million and has branded the current economic and financial situation after a month of management in the city of "absolute emergency".
The alderman was speaking at a press conference in which he explained the reasons which led to the accession of the Consistory Fund Management Measures Financial Sustainability of the autonomous regions and local authorities which approved the full this week.
Canovas has justified the City accession to the plan to reduce the municipal financial burden, whose sign a credit transaction amounting to 5.080.546.82 euros with the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration through the Official Credit Institute agreed.
He recalled that this measure offered by the Ministry it is intended to seek financial sustainability of municipalities with serious difficulties and will allow for liquidity to meet financial transactions entered into with banks that have not been refinanced with criteria of financial prudence.
It also allows municipalities to raise cash to meet debt for unpaid fees are assuming more than 25% interest on arrears and debt deal less than 1% interest being retained in the partition of Taxes State existing debts to state agencies.
Similarly, under this loan operation with the Ministry totanero Consistory to the execution of final judgments that are outstanding in the Totana Town Council it is possible, and has said the mayor, "amounting to more than 800,000 euros were generated in previous legislatures. "
Canovas has claimed adherence to this plan as a result of the serious economic situation with the municipal coffers "with a series of unpaid and numerous court rulings that threaten to serious procedural consequences for the general interests of the City bank fees".
In this regard, the councilor said that "we are finding a situation whose reality exceeds expectations" and appealed to the responsibility to the Popular Party, and especially its spokesman, the former mayor Isabel Maria Sanchez, who criticized "by give no truce or even 100 days to the government, when there are so many problems and all kinds generated by the PP government. "
He also denied that this adjustment plan entails a tax increase and criticized "demagoguery" of the Popular Party with the reduction of staff and current spending, which has guaranteed "will be reduced only with pensions and measures planned ".
He reiterated the opposition a message of "patience, restraint and abandon the stage of demagogy" to collaborate and move this situation together, "she parked irresponsibility and assuming political responsibility".
Also, the mayor announced that the municipal government, meanwhile alderman he is not going to raise taxes, unless the supra require agencies to do so;
and he has advocated that the Ministry of Finance "do a rebate of municipal debt", as he has said "it would be logical and reasonable";
and who has been responsible for "giving credit to a municipality that did not solvency."
Finally, he said that neighbors know in the coming months, "the economic and financial reality of the City" and added that the line of action of the municipal government will work to "stabilize the economic situation and give it stability."
Source: Ayuntamiento / Foto y vídeo: Totana.com