The Socialist Parliamentary Group has presented for Ibiza amendments to the draft budget of the Budget of the Govern45 million euros and improve, among other things, the financing of the Consell de Ibiza. Consell de Ibiza. At a press conference, the Ibizan socialists have lamented that, for the first time in ten years, the contribution to the Consell decreases from 82.4 million euros to 77.4. For the PSOE, this cut is not only due to a technical calculation, but is the result of the forecast of a lower tax collection. According to the formation, also the territorialized investment presents imbalances and, while on the island only increases by 2.82 percent, in the case of the municipality of Ibiza it falls by 57.20 percent, being a “punishment” to the capital.
Among other amendments, the PSOE has demanded measures to guarantee the financing of the Consells in the event of a reduction in tax revenues. It also highlights the request to execute a protocol of the last legislature to build new apartments and rehouse those affected by the Don Pepe apartments. “While we propose solutions to improve funding and ensure basic public services, the PP has approved by the back door a rise in money for their charges. It is unusual that councilors who are not deputies charge per diems simply to cover their obligations,” they insisted. The formation has also denounced the cut in the budget of Ibisec, with 23 percent less, from 47 to 36 million. A decrease that will leave out “essential” educational projects for Ibiza. The amendments also include an additional 15 million to start the construction and renovation of educational centers in Ibiza, such as the new IES Can Cantó or the new CEIP Sant Antoni. In Culture, the recovery of items such as the one destined to the Ibiza World Heritage Consortium (100,000 euros) is demanded. The deputy Irantzu Fernández has detailed the amendments in Health, regretting that, for the second year, the Govern does not update the per diems of patients who must move to hospitals on other islands from Ibiza and Formentera. “The Govern raises, again and it is already three times, the salary of the general director of IbSalut. Meanwhile, it refuses to update by three euros the diet of patients,” he criticized. On environmental issues, the PSOE has submitted amendments worth 1.7 million that include the request for five fields of mooring buoys. In addition, it claims four million for public transport in Ibiza and six million in water management.
