get it town halls do not lose money to fight against depopulation. This is the proposal that the PSOE presented today to the Cortes of Aragon to avoid the non-execution of the approximately 7 million euros planned for this objective.
The deputy spokesperson for the PSOE parliamentary group, Darío Villagrasa, explained that this proposal would be transferred to the arrest to the President of the Government of Aragon, Jorge Azcón, in order to know what will happen with these 7 million euros budgeted to fight against depopulationbut that “they will ultimately not be executed“.
Villagrasa explained that the socialist group has already shown the difficulty in processing the more than 20 lines of the cohesion fundof certain projects such as the Center for Studies on Depopulation, the international congress, the campaigns on the rural real estate and promotion portal and the execution of the budget before the end of the year.
“After the summer, taking into account the procedures undertaken, we noticed that many projects could not be carried out,” explains Darío Villagrasa, who recommends taking measures to avoid losing these resources. In this sense, he recommends urgently undertaking a budgetary modification with an unconditional transfer to municipalities so that the first local administration invests in policies to combat depopulation.
Villagrasa emphasizes that the situation is not “a minor issue”, since the fund financing projects to combat depopulation FIHUZAR will not work this year. The provision in this case is 4.5 million euros.
He also sees in danger the Study Center and the holding of an international congress, with a financial endowment of more than one million euros, and which did not materialize, as well as the portal of the rural real estate or other revitalization campaigns.
In November, we noted that initiatives have not yet been convened within the framework of the territorial cohesion fund such as the neighborhood restaurantsof accessibility to housingaid for energy efficiency or agricultural or livestock operations. PSOE calculations place more than 7 million people awaiting execution.
