The Government of Spain has approved the justification for two new projects for the reconstruction of municipalities affected by the Dana. Specifically, it is about the repair of the Algemesí Day Center and the sports area and municipal park of San Antonio de Llombai, which already have the approval of the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, which will fully cover the cost of the works through the funds transferred to the municipalities. With these two, the Spanish Government has already approved a total of seven projects.
The Secretary of State for Territorial Policy, Arcadi España, highlighted this morning from Llombai the will of the Government of Spain to speed up the approval of the projects to repair the municipal infrastructures damaged by the Dana of October 29, with the aim of accelerating the reconstruction to the maximum.”
“Both infrastructures are fundamental to recover normality in both Llombai and Algemesí,” said Spain, which has also highlighted that the Spanish Government is reducing “to the maximum” the administrative deadlines for the consistories to tender the works.
1.745 billion euros for reconstruction
The Government of Spain has mobilized an historic amount to deal with the entire reconstruction of municipal infrastructures damaged after the disaster of the Dana on October 29. It is 1,745 million euros, entered in the current accounts of the municipalities, in just 40 days since it was announced by President Pedro Sánchez.
With this unprecedented endowment, more than 370 interventions will be implemented in municipal infrastructures fundamental to provide public services to citizens, such as social centers, squares, gardens and streets, sports facilities, children's schools, administrative centers, markets and markets, etc., as well as works in the provincial road network. In this way, around 500 interventions will be executed in the municipalities included in the annex of Royal Decree Law 6/2024.
News in the financing of works
Until now, the Government of Spain had regularly assumed 50% of the costs of repairing municipal infrastructures damaged by natural disasters. In the order of the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory for the subsidies for the Dana, published on February 3, it was established the financing of 100% of the cost of the works that, in addition, has been delivered in advance to the municipalities.
Also, for the first time, municipalities are allowed to sign an agreement with Tragsa so that it is this public company that awards and executes the works. Another novelty is that the infrastructures can be relocated in safer areas of the municipality and added in them technical improvements that increase their resilience in the face of climate change. Likewise, the ordinary deadlines in the different phases are extended, so that the municipalities have easier to complete them.