Spain: Vigo approved its budget for 2017 – Second Approach

Spain. – votes of the Spanish Socialist workers Party (PSOE) give final approval to the accounts of Vigo, which amounted to 233 million euros.

local Media reflected that the city council of Vigo managed to ensure that its accounts at the level of 233 million euros, which represents an increase of 3,17% with respect to the one adopted for this year, and this was possible thanks to the votes of the PSOE and against the PP and the Tide, who helped the final approval of the budgets of 2017.

The councillor of Finance, has detailed that "with part of this budget is allocated 13 million to education, $ 12 million from sport, 4 billion to tourism and 16 million to the investment chapter".

The councillor for the Budget and Finance, Jaime Aneiros, in charge of defending the document, highlighted that Vigo is the "first city of Galicia in approving the budget" for the next fiscal year, all in the "framework of efficiency, the public finances and a situation of debt is zero".

Aneiros insisted that "the accounts have been prepared with funds obtained through own resources, and has explained the reasons which have prompted the local government to reject the 40 allegations filed during the period of public exhibition. On this point, it has ensured that the same did not conform to the assumptions of legal, generated a budgetary imbalance, or were concretions of items generic".

To Aneiros, "these arguments have only served to censor; as, to go against the city, requesting the reduction of some items or the Council to take powers from other levels of government".

In that sense, the councillor in charge of Finance, has detailed that "with part of this budget is allocated 13 million to education, $ 12 million from sport, 4 billion to tourism and 16 million to the investment chapter".

For his part, the spokesman for the Tide of Vigo, Rubén Pérez added that "it is hard to understand in what part of the calendar process the budget provides for the citizen participation; and he remembered that this end is referred to in the Code of Good Practices of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, which was approved in full".

Perez urged the local government of Vigo to create a participatory process in the preparation of the accounts, with tools that allow neighbors to make submissions before the text is approved initially.

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