The president of the Partido Popular de Totana, Isabelle Nau, blamed the Government's Office of the "untenable position spanning the municipalities" and complained that "after six years of socialist Executive, the local government situation is dramatic" .
In a statement, Nau stated that "the PP Mayors Committee, comprising the rulers of provincial capitals and municipalities with more than one hundred thousand, and last week discussed the current situation of local governments and the new model local funding. "
For the local PP, "the decline in revenues and related expenditures increased unemployment and the crisis is seriously affecting local governments."
Nau said that "the difficult economic situation that have gone through the local governments in 2009 is going to become untenable this year, since the socialist government has cut, in GEA 2010, more than 3,000 million euros the amounts transferred to the local governments, and assessed that in 2011 this figure may rise to 4,500 million euros. "
The popular president said that "irresponsible fiscal policy of the Government and its willingness to hide the real situation of the economy will cause the municipalities in addition to deducting your income do have to return in 2011 partly on account of deliveries conducted by the Ministry for 2008. "
He reported that "the People's Party has been in the Congress of Deputies a bill laying again urges the Government to amend the Decree Law of the State Fund for Employment and Local Sustainability, so that 3,000 million to pursue the payment of bills by municipalities.
He noted that "the PP is demanding for months that Rodriguez Zapatero to meet its commitments and propose, without delay, a new system of local funding to be agreed with the PP, the next most popular political force in the last municipal elections.
He also stressed that "Zapatero has repeatedly misled the Spanish municipality failing in its commitment to adopt the new model of local financing in conjunction with the regional finance reform."
Similarly, reported that "the Prime Minister still face the problem of local financing and is only interested in making propaganda for the two Local Investment Fund, or solve the serious structural problem suffered by municipalities for 30 years or resolve the situation of more than four and a half million unemployed people in Spain. "
For Nau, "is grotesque and sad that at a time of social crisis like the one living this country, the Government has forced municipalities to spend more than 60 million euros in propaganda posters Rodriguez Zapatero."
Source: PP Totana. Foto: archivo Totana.com