The Mayor of Totana, José Martínez Andreo, has ensured that the municipalities can not meet regularly to pay the suppliers if the National Government does not lift the ban on an initiative of the Popular Group through which states creating ICO Credit lines to pay bills to suppliers.
Martínez Andreo explained, once again, the central government has curbed lending to the productive sector, leaving the session that can not meet the payments to companies that provide products or services to local governments.
The mayor has said that the rejection of the People initiative, one of the eighty already raised to bet on local governments, it means a serious injury to the municipalities, but especially a greater injury employment, as consistory, as the totanero, who can not pay suppliers means the closing of small and medium businesses and the self-employed have to stop their activity and the consequence is the increase in unemployment.
It has also influenced that this veto is a deliberate attempt on the part of the central government, accountable to mayors and councils of government debt, especially since I tend account has not been working on the new funding model local.
Totanero The mayor has asked the local socialist party that is revealed to this issue and to rule in this situation, since municipalities like Totana has endured a relentless decline in the transfer of money from state taxes, while he has been forced to bear the cost of some of its policies, without the Central Government has taken measures to offset the effect of actual form of the crisis.
However, Martínez Andreo has stressed that it is necessary, following the line marked by austerity and accountability in public spending, the credit line to pay ICO debt providers to ensure the provision of public services and services basic social and afford to SMEs and freelancers.
