The Andalusian budget for 2025 amounts to 48.836 million euros, which representsalmost 2 billion euros more than last year. This increase was concentrated mainly in health, education and dependency, while other aspects such as public investment remained frozen. This approach was the subject of an analysis yesterday in the Andalusian Parliament by the main social and economic agents.
The Confederation of Entrepreneurs of Andalusia (CEA) In his speech, he highlighted the “stability” that it brings to Andalusia. have budgets approved each year within the required timeframe, taking into account the situation of the central government. “The effect of the extension of the general state budgets combines with the imminent reform of the autonomous financing system which harms Andalusian interests and the political instability which affects relations with the autonomous communities”, indicates the transferred document in Parliament.
At the same time, and already in the detailed analysis of the accounts, it requires greater public investment from the Andalusian government in infrastructure. “The 5.8 billion euros represent 2.5% of regional GDP, a figure which remains far from the 5% of GDP before the financial crisis.“. “We must promote public investment so that it grows at least as much as the budget,” believes the CEA. The accounts increase by 4% but the investment is frozen.
Along with this, and as usual The CEA warns of the need to take measures promoting higher levels of execution He therefore calls for more “agility and simplification”, particularly in the area of business development programs “with an execution rate on existing credits of 60%”.
Unions
The vision is much more critical in the case of the main Andalusian unions. The analysis of the UGT Andalucía highlights that the Andalusian budget for 2025 “does not include social and labor areas as a top priority”. And he specifically points the finger at the health sector, in a “critical” situation: “We cannot tolerate more layoffs of healthcare workers nor the emigration of our professionals in search of better working conditions. We find unacceptable the closure of health centers in the afternoon,” declares the union, which also censors funds allocated to education and dependency.
In its UGT report, it also includes the request for a plan against work accidents and a clear line of action in terms of housing: “We demand an energetic and rapid response to this housing crisis which affects thousands of people and which endangers the social cohesion and territorial balance of the entire autonomous community,” he stressed.
In addition to demanding greater social spending on education, health, dependency and housing, CCOO-A has integrated analysis and a critical vision in terms of income management, criticizing measures to reduce taxes or the renunciation of certain European programs such as the 112 million to create new crèches. schools:We cannot understand decisions that reduce the budget and then allude to the fact that there is no money because the central government discriminates against Andalusia. in the distribution of regional funding.
CCOO-A demands above all in its document a greater effort in public spending in the ccompliance with the measures agreed and included in the Social and Economic Pact signed in March 2023: “We do not see the reflection of problems such as the universalization of nursery schools from 0 to 3 years, the insufficient financing of universities, the industrialization measures of Andalusia, the increase in the price of places depending on dependency or gender equality projects.”
Finally, in the case of the CSIF, he also described the budgets of the Junta de Andalucía for 2025 as “insufficient” since “They will not be used to strengthen public services or improve working conditions workers who support them. “The general trend in these accounts is to do more with less, to keep staff exhausted and to overwork civil servants,” he concluded.
