The Minister of Territorial Policy and Spokeswoman, Isabel Rodríguez, has highlighted the different way of governing this Government: “We did it during the pandemic, and now out of conviction, with the help of the autonomous communities and local entities, through the recovery funds, so that investments impact on all territories.”
A way of governing, in which President Sánchez also wanted the municipalities to be present, “with their participation in the sectoral conferences and in the deployment of the recovery funds,” he added.
Isabel Rodríguez has attended the meeting that represents the first step for the implementation of the Institutional Table for Seville, which brings together the three administrations, and which has also been attended by the Andalusian Minister of Presidency, Interior, Social Dialogue and Simplification, Antonio Sanz, and the mayor of the city, Antonio Muñoz, and has taken advantage of her stay in the Andalusian capital to visit several technology companies.
Institutional Roundtable by Sevilla
Isabel Rodríguez has highlighted that Seville is today a clear photograph of transformation, digitalization, and modernity: “What happened 30 years ago now happens again in this city at a crucial time. If before it was the AVE and the Expo, now the transformation comes with the Spanish Space Agency, the aerospace industry or a sustainable transport model, such as the metro.”
The minister referred to the step taken today to launch the Institutional Table for Seville: “So that the large municipalities, with influence in the metropolitan area, participate in decision making. It is the step we are taking today, with the launch of the Institutional Table for Seville, a commitment by the mayor and his municipal team, a forum where the three administrations will participate in decision-making, but with greater impact at the municipal level, because cities must participate in the process of their transformation and modernization.”
In this regard, he referred to the 650 million that the Government approved at the last Council of Ministers as economic investment for the Seville Metro: “Territorial cohesion is also concretized with this investment to carry out a long-awaited infrastructure, line 3 of the Seville Metro, around large infrastructures, a desired step that will materialize next week giving the green light to this fundamental investment for this city with the commitment of the Government of Spain.”
Technological and aerospace sector
Isabel Rodríguez has taken advantage of her visit to Seville to visit two companies in the technological and aerospace sector: “A strategic sector in the European environment, which makes Seville, Andalusia and the whole territory a space of opportunity to enhance the capacities of talent, industrial opportunities in cities like Seville, which now bet on different industries, betting on talent, science and with opportunities for young people, because we want them to develop their capacity and their preparation in Spain.”
The minister highlighted the importance of the aerospace sector in the city, with objective employment data: “In Seville alone, 5,000 jobs, and 14,000 in the metropolitan area, linked to the aerospace sector, a strategic sector in our country, a commitment to the advancement of industry and digitalization, as we do with electric vehicles or semiconductors. A commitment to a new, different energy industry, which we lead from Spain, thanks to the recovery funds and which is concretized here in the Strategic Aerospace Plan, which has begun to be deployed with the Spanish Space Agency here in Seville, which in this first advance alone has injected more than 400 million euros, 80 here in Andalusia, with a significant impact of employment and economic growth.”
The arrival of the funds, he stressed, also represents sharing the opportunities of the different sectors with the General Administration of the State, so that the strength of the country is a reality: “That is the objective of deconcentration, one of the axes of territorial cohesion and with opportunities also for the other cities that were candidates for the Agency, leading from Seville, but sharing the strength with the other candidate cities, to which the effort we make in the aerospace sector will also reach.”