- Francisco Martín has shown “with real data” the impact of the policies that the central government has implemented in the region
- “Spain is moving forward, and Madrid is moving forward thanks to the Government of Spain”, said
The Government delegate to the Community of Madrid, Francisco Martín Aguirre, today presented a socio-economic balance sheet of the management of the Government of Spain in the Community of Madrid in 2023 and updated the information regarding the execution of European funds in the region. These data, in his opinion, highlight the “firm and extremely important commitment of the Government of Spain to the Community of Madrid”.
In this regard, he pointed out that the action of the Government in the region is summarized in three verbs: “Protect, advance and invest.” And he has gone through some of the figures that support those actions.
On the one hand, the approval of the revaluation of pensions under the CPI, that is, 3.8%, “to protect Madrid pensioners, who are today more protected than ever and have a revaluation that is updated every year according to the evolution of the cost of living,” he stressed.
In fact, in the Community of Madrid, the average pension is 1,646€/month, 343 € more than in 2018.
Protecting the weakest
This protection also extends to the weakest, since the Community of Madrid is a “deeply unequal” region. Therefore, measures such as the implementation of the Minimum Vital Income have benefited 193,606 Madrileños and Madrileñas who “have escaped from severe poverty thanks to measures such as this”.
Also, during this 2023, different measures of protection for vulnerable families have been maintained, such as, for example, the maximum discount of the social bond, the limitation to the increases in the price of the regulated price of the gas of the households and of the butane carboy, and the suspension throughout the year of evictions and uprisings for vulnerable households that do not have a housing alternative.
Education
In the field of education, the year 2023 has been a record year in the provision of scholarships in Spain, allocating no more and no less than 2,520 million euros of investment, to guarantee and protect equal opportunities in our country and the merit of our youth to be able to develop fully.
In Madrid, this protection of talent has reached 116,764 students who have benefited from scholarships. Of these 2.5 billion euros, 205.7 million have been allocated to the Community of Madrid.
Employment and affiliation data
Regarding the data related to employment, it has highlighted that in 2023 3,659,405 people are affiliated to Social Security in the Community of Madrid, which is an increase of 450,858 compared to the data of 2018. “Almost half a million more people working than five years ago,” he insisted.
Likewise, the number of indefinite contracts amounts to 1,032,501 indefinite contracts, 119% more than in 2019.
These figures show: “Firstly, the enormous strength and solidity of the Spanish economy; and, secondly, that Madrid advances if Spain advances,” he said.
Investments
Francisco Martín has also addressed the investments of the Government of Spain in this year 2023 in the region, such as those made in the network of Neighbourhoods “after years and years of neglect of government of the PP”.
The planned investment for the modernization of the Neighbourhoods network amounts to 7.116 million euros, of which more than 4.8 billion euros are already mobilized, including the purchase of 153 new trains, “one third of which will be purchased for the entire State”.
At the end of 2023, the total investment mobilized in railway infrastructure is 71% more than that mobilized in 2022, almost doubling the forecast given in March, when an increase of 34% was expected. And a total of 329,296 transport subscriptions have been financed at 50%.
Housing
The Government of Spain in Madrid also invests in housing, such as the unblocking carried out of Operation Camp, which will involve promoting in Madrid an approximate number of 12,000 homes, 60% being public protected housing and 40% free housing.
The purchase transaction between ministries has involved an initial investment of 271 million euros.
“The Government of Spain seeks to reverse the housing model in Spain. Faced with the PP model in the Community of Madrid based on the bubble and speculation, this Government increases the supply of housing, especially for young people, being one of the main social housing initiatives in Spain,” he said.
In light of these data, the delegate has affirmed that “today’s Madrid is a better Madrid” than when the PSOE arrived in the Government of Spain, “with more employment, more protected, with more advances and more investment.”
Next Generation Wallpapers
The Community of Madrid has received a total of 8,806 M€ from the Next Generation Funds, which shows that the region “is being particularly well treated” in the distribution of the funds of the Recovery Plan. Only through the funds directly executed by the agencies of the General Administration of the State, it already has more than 52,400 projects in progress.
Works have been listed for 560 million euros in modernization actions of Neighbourhoods, which represent a third of the total of all of Spain, among which works are already under way such as the remodeling of the Clara Campoamor-Chamartín Station, of the Madrid-Vicálvaro railway terminal for the improvement of the C2 and C7 proximity lines, or those of extension of the C4b line to Soto del Real.
For the promotion of sustainable urban mobility, 130 actions in the large municipalities of the region have been financed with 308 million euros, which have allowed, among others, the expansion of the Bicimad service or the electrification of the bus fleet in the Madrid City Council.
Likewise, the Government of Spain, through European funds, also invests in the Madrid metro, with 200 M€ transferred to the Community of Madrid for actions such as the extension of line 3 of Metro between Villaverde Alto and El Casar in Getafe, which will allow to improve the mobility of more than one million citizens of the municipalities of the south.
In the field of healthcare, more than €126 million has been transferred to Madrid for the purchase of high-tech healthcare equipment in 21 public hospitals in the region; for the modernization of the Gómez Ulla, more than €24.5 million is being invested.
In the field of education, the European Funds have created 5,250 new places for children from 0 to 3 years old, and 35,461 new VET places in 214 institutes in 58 municipalities in the region.
Likewise, in the field of digitization, the Government of Spain has decided to place in the Autonomous University of Madrid the new National Center of Neurotechnology (Spain Neurotech). It is the great European Centre for Neurotechnology and one of the most emblematic projects of the Recovery Plan.
120 M € have also been allocated for the PERTE de Salud de Vanguardia; 32 million euros for the creation in Alcorcón of a national and international reference center of the ATENPRO service for the protection of victims of all male violence; or more than 2,900 homes for social rent in sixteen municipalities of the Community of Madrid, such as Aranjuez, Arganda del Rey, Colmenar Viejo, Daganzo de Arriba, Humanes de Madrid, Moralzarzal or Móstoles.
These investments have a “direct impact on the lives of Madrileños”, such as those that have been made to ensure the future of employment in large companies such as Bosch in Madrid and Aranjuez, EINSA in Alcalá de Henares, or Airbus in Getafe, and also in SMEs and self-employed people in the Community of Madrid, who already have the digital kit that is allowing the digitalization of their businesses.
In the opinion of the government delegate, these figures “speak for themselves of the consistency and commitment of this government for the Community of Madrid”, and show that “Spain is moving forward, and that Madrid is moving forward thanks to the Government of Spain”.