Ourense, 13 de febreiro de 2023.- The Deputy Delegate of the Government, Emilio González, highlights the "importance of breaking the gap of the rural world to work on the demographic challenge". Thus, he explained it this morning during the presentation of the program “The Administration near you” in the Concello de Sarreaus. The subdelegate highlighted one of the main objectives of the Government of Pedro Sánchez that is about administration to citizens and breaking with the “digital divide”, especially in rural municipalities such as the Concello de Sarreaus with more than 1,400 inhabitants and where the average age of the population exceeds 60 years of age.
During the presentation, the Subdelegate of the Government was accompanied by the mayor of the town, Gumersindo Lamas, who thanked the Government for its involvement with the rural and the presentation and attraction of these programs to the municipalities of less than 8,000 inhabitants means “giving it the necessary relevance and taking care of it with facts”
The Subdelegation do Goberno will present its program this week in five Concellos of the province – Sandiás, Laza, Vilar de Barrio and Os Blanco – bringing the tools of the digital administration to the neighbors who live in the rural hand in hand with officials of the subdelegation. In total, 81 municipalities with fewer than 8,000 inhabitants will benefit from the program in the province in the coming months.
Emilio González explained in the coming weeks, he will also join the personal program of Social Security and the SEPE after the agreement reached between the Ministry of Territorial Policy and the Ministries of Employment and Inclusion, on which both agencies depend in response to the initiative of the Ministry of Territorial Policy, to include more services to this new way of relating to citizens, and with the particularity of being services of the most demanded. “We want to have a direct relationship with the services of the Administration and in this way the neighbors of Sarreaus will be able to communicate in a more agile and dynamic way being catalysts of this service without having to travel to the capital”
The Administration Near You is a program of the Ministry of Territorial Policy, in collaboration with the FEMP, framed in the policies of demographic challenge to advance in the elimination of the digital divide and social and territorial cohesion.
Ourense is at the head of the Spanish provinces in which the program is developed in the execution of electronic procedures, bringing the Administration closer to thousands of rural ourensanos that avoid moving to be able to carry out the procedures. A program that promotes the rural environment and progress through digitization and electronic procedures and highlights the Government’s involvement in the demographic challenge. To date, 500 certificates and 450 permanent Cl@ves have been managed.
Institutional Meeting with the Mayor
Subsequently, the Subdelegate of the Government visited the offices of the Concello and held an institutional meeting with the mayor, Guimersindo Lamas, to transfer the aid of the Government in the field of energy efficiency – Sarreaus has received in the last year € 259,000 in aid from the IDAE