The government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, said today that concellos like Brión’s “have a lot to say” in the transformations promoted by the government in Galicia and Spain in fields such as energy transition or digitalization. He did so during a visit to the Concello, where he was received by the mayor, Pablo Lago, in which they monitored the state of government investments in the locality.
Pedro Blanco affirmed that collaboration with the councillors, as the administration closest to citizenship, “is a priority of the Government of Pedro Sánchez; it was in the previous legislatures and it will continue to be the next four years,” he said. In fact, at the meeting, the delegate also had the opportunity to know the proposals and projects in which the local government works and see how to promote some of these initiatives from the different ministries. He also signed in the Concello’s Book of Honor.
Thus, Pedro Blanco recalled that, in the field of energy transition, the Government financed in Brión the change to LED technology of public lighting. This project received 150,000 euros from the Ministry for the Ecological Transition. The change allowed the Concello to reduce its electricity consumption and, consequently, lower its electric bill.
Regarding digitization, the delegate stressed that, with the support of the funds of the Recovery Plan, “which reaches each and every one of the Galician municipalities”, the Government is completing the digitization of Galicia. Do it with initiatives such as the UNICO Program of the Ministry of Digital Transformation, from which the Concello de Brión benefits.
In particular, this program will allow 451 families and businesses in the municipality that until now did not have this service to use high-speed Internet through fiber optics. Telefónica, which was the winner in the call for 2021, and Viento Viento Red, which carried those of 2022 and 2023 (the award of the latter is still provisional) are the companies in charge of undertaking this work in the province of A Coruña.
The Concello de Brión also benefits from a Destination Tourism Sustainability Plan (PSTD) Terras de Santiago, in which nine other municipalities are integrated. This project, which seeks to boost local gastronomic markets; create and promote new formats of gastronomic tourism in the region and strengthen the supply of active tourism, receives 1.3 million euros from the Recovery Plan through the Ministry of Industry and Tourism and contemplates as actions in Brión the reinforcement of the agricultural paths of the municipality.