The Andalusian Government is moving forward in a political scenario that almost constitutes an anomaly at the national level. With a central government without a majority to approve its accounts and several regional governments (like Castilla León, Valencia or Extremadura) and municipal councils with broken and unstable agreements, Only a few regions have the privilege of being able to present their accounts, without mortgages and without transfers, with the certainty that they will be approved by their absolute majority.. Andalusia is one of them.
Thus, “stability” is one of the axes of the Minister of Finance and government spokesperson, Carolina España, when presenting her accounts to the Andalusian Parliament to submit them to the three amendments to the total recorded by the PSOE , For Andalusia and Adelante. Andalusia. The accounts will be approved as designed by the Treasury, they will come into force as soon as possible, and without sanitation or revenue problems, with a balanced budgetary design and in parallel with a framework of sustained economic growth in Andalusia, as well as in the rest of Spain.
“We comply with the Andalusians, We provide security, protect public services and transfer credibility because they are accounts in which management and efficiency predominate”, summarized Carolina España in her defense of the accounts, in which she highlighted that the approval of budgets every year at a pace that was usual in other periods contributes decisively to economic growth and the reduction of inequalities.
In all, The Andalusian Government will have 48.836 million euros in 2025, which represents a growth of 4.4%, or approximately 2.065 million euros.. As the councilor pointed out in her intervention, it is a management budget and, therefore, it maintains the same basis as previous budgets and allocates the economic resources incorporated as a result of the increase in income own resources and transfers from the state financing system to the zones. where management must be strengthened: health, education, dependency and housing.
63% of the budget, or 30.903 million euros, is devoted to what is qualified as social spending. The percentage increases compared to previous years because virtually all additional funding available to the regional government for 2025 has been focused on these areas.“It is the largest investment effort in history in education, health, dependency (…) It is a budget intended to reduce the social gap.”detailed the advisor, who detailed the “efforts” that are being made in all these areas as well as in housing. Carolina España has made it clear that these are issues that “concern” Andalusians as well as the Andalusian Government and therefore require more measures and a greater volume of spending.
The largest amount is allocated to public health, which concentrates one euro in three of expenditure to achieve the 15.247 million euros that allow us to strengthen staff, increase spending on health care agreements with private clinics and integrate new investments such as the ICU of the Puerto Real Hospital or the outpatient consultation building of the Materno Infantil de Córdoba.. “This government is listening to the streets, we know where to invest to improve so that citizens see their demands met,” said the advisor.
Next comes education spending, with 9.167 million euros, which represents around 5% of GDP, a figure that will allow implement measures such as free daycare in the two-year cycle or the last payment of the commitment to increase the salaries of teaching staff.
The third axis is dependency, which accumulates the largest waiting lists in Spain. “It is an issue that concerns us, an issue of great social importance to which we do not turn our backs,” said the advisor, who stressed thatIn 2025, this dependency benefit will reach a record figure of more than 2 billion euros.
Finally, the issue that sparked the latest citizen protests, notably in Seville, Malaga and Cádiz: housing. Between tax deductions, investments and current expenses, 800 million euros are reached for these policies. “It has become one of the main concerns of Spaniards and a problem that affects all territories of the country. “We are very aware of it and that is why we have made it a priority,” Spain stressed.
Lack of funding
But despite presenting a record budget for Andalusia for approval, the Council describes an “unsustainable and stifling” economic scenario. The reasonis the existing regional financing model and this deficit recognized by independent organizations such as Fedea of 1,500 million euros each year. It is true that every year the Commission receives more money from the State, but it is also true, as the Andalusian government points out, that the distribution of funds is still not in accordance with the population and the needs of the ‘Andalusia.
“Since 2009, Andalusia has lost more than 15 billion people if we apply an adjusted population criterion and it would be 20 billion if we use the existing legal population. They take 1.522 million from us every year. This is an unsustainable and stifling situation that the Spanish government must resolve without further delay in a multilateral manner, without singularities or quotas or concessions,” said the advisor, who specifically named the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero.
Apart from these 1.5 billion in financing,The Junta de Andalucía is also demanding a greater effort from the central government to finance the agency.. State resources for this benefit are currently reaching a record level but still do not reach the 50% provided for by the Dependency Law, an index which, on the other hand, is not reached in any autonomy.
This approach to state financing and the role of the central government is one of the areas of confrontation between the government and the opposition on budgets. Parliamentary left groups insist that the accounts are increasing because the state financing system is doing so and despite tax cuts.. The Andalusian government emphasizes that its own resources are increasing and that there is more tax collection, which makes it possible to maintain public services despite the lack of revision of the state financing system by the Spanish government.
Whatever happens, the Andalusian Government maintains its discourse on the “Andalusian way”. Although only Vox avoided presenting a global amendment, The government insists on reaching out to the groups and opening the door to “dialogue” with the opposition to incorporate specific amendments to the text. But with the peace of mind that its absolute majority guarantees that the structure of the accounts is the one that the government has defined and that it will not be necessary to negotiate measures that the executive of Juanma Moreno is not interested in introducing for one reason or another.
