The mayor of Oviedo, Alfredo Canteli, asks Barbón for more money for the capital in the 2021 regional budgets that the government will present next week. Canteli requires at least the same treatment as the rest of the large Asturian municipalities. It cannot be, he pointed out, that with 22% of the population Oviedo receives 2% of the total budget, as it happened in 2020.
On Thursday afternoon that meeting took place in which the mayor of Oviedo, Alfredo Canteli, conveyed to the president of the Principality, Adrián Barbón, his requests for the 2021 budgets that today will be presented by the Asturian government. next Wednesday, December 2. According to the mayor “it was a cordial meeting, but with some tough moments.” And it is that Canteli began criticizing what happened in the budgets of this year, when “Oviedo with 22% of the population of all Asturias only received 2.14 percent of the regional accounts”. “I no longer ask for what would correspond to us, that 22%, but at least it is not relegated to the capital and that we receive the same treatment as Gijón or Avilés,” said the mayor of Oviedo.
Cantel He has also criticized the low execution of the investments planned for Oviedo in the current budgets, only 4.7% of the budgeted projects, something that the councilor hopes will be corrected in 2021. “The desirable thing has been said is that it be executed between 70 and 80%, anything else is a failure. “
Regarding the detail of his requests, he highlighted: more investments for the Pre-Romanesque, the footbridge between the bus station and the Renfe station, the construction of Florida IES and that at least the project for the IES of La Corredoria or the elimination of San Claudio level crossing.
For its part the spokesperson for the Asturian executive, Melania Álvarez, has specified this morning that the meeting is part of the dialogue that Barbón maintains with all mayors but that the negotiation of the budgets corresponds to the parliamentary groups.
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