The 2025 budgets of the Canary Islands have sparked a shower of rejections and amendments to the whole by opposition groups, who see accounts that worsen those of 2024 and reinforce bad decisions.
This was expressed by the socialist group, which considered that not only “is it not capable of correcting the 2024 budget, but that it is making it worse in many areas, by lowering the budget”. serious shortcomings and the bad decisions adopted for the 2024 financial year”, both in terms of “spending priorities and in fiscal matters”, so that the fundamental areas which have lost important economic resources are “far from recovering the ground lost in this bill.
For the PSOE Treasury spokesperson, Manuel Hernández, it is a “lousy” budget that is also “fatalists and who ignore the socio-economic context in which they are formulated, as well as the social demands in response to the profound dysfunctions of our development model, because “there is really no real desire to listen on the part of the current government of the Canary Islands. to Canarian society”.
The “Isabel Ayuso imprint”
For its part, Nueva Canarias gave it a first and last name, ensuring that these budgets bear “the imprint of Isabel Ayuso”, and that they intend to force the privatization of services by reducing resources.
The president of the NC, Román Rodríguez, affirmed that in these budgets “public services are weakened because what the right wants is privatization”, thus expressing “the DNA of the government with” the Legal notices Isabel Ayuso“to “leave the public behind and support the powerful against the needy”.
He warned that they “are not yet complying and are increasing taxes”, against the promised reduction of the IGIC, with “changes to the personal income tax which increase the tax pressure“and by removing deductions for aid to low incomes below 30,000 euros as well as the two forest centimes and bonuses for professional fuel.
The revenues of 2024 “were not going to be repeated in 2025” and their transfer to structural expenditure “is paid for”, which became clear in the budgets that follow a “conservative” trend, fiscal policy unfair and that this does not change anything in the economic system. »
Voz also did the same, because after the “margin of confidence” granted to the government of the CC and the PP, they assure that “he didn’t keep his word» and which prioritizes “a parallel administration that benefits politicians instead of meeting the needs of the Canary Islands”. He sees in these stories “a continuous approach, ignoring the needs of the Canaries”, which consolidates the “lack of consistency between electoral promises and implemented policies.
The spokesperson for the Vox parliamentary group, Nicasio Galván, sees in these budgets how they “deepen the policies that have kept the Canary Islands in a situation of delay and lack of opportunities.
