• The "sablazo" will cost Lorca 10.5 million euros: 7.5 for the IBI and another 3 million that are lost because the central government will not comply with the agreement for works in districts owed to the City Council.
When Mariano Rajoy met this same situation, he passed a special Decree Law to maintain this tax assistance.
The Speaker of the Popular Party in the City of Lorca, Fulgencio Gil, has advanced this morning that the PP will require that Citizens and PSOE assume their political responsibilities for the definitive loss of the Real Estate Tax (IBI) bonus to those affected by the earthquakes, a reality with which the City Council is already working, which at this point recognizes that Pedro Sánchez takes it away from us.
It is, without a doubt, the worst news we could receive this year.
Although the reconstruction process is advanced, there are still things to do, so it was not the time for this robbery.
Fulgencio Gil has affirmed that this is the first major failure of the current local government of Citizens and PSOE.
The current mayor and the Councilor for Economy (which belongs to Citizens) have failed miserably, and his mistake we will have to pay all Lorca.
They have been unable to defend Lorca, something that since the PP we had been getting year after year, demanding in the offices, fighting where necessary and claiming what Lorca needed.
Every year we planted ourselves in the offices of the Ministry and we didn't go out until we got what the Lorca people deserve.
The change of government in our city has as its main "gift" that we take 7.5 million euros from those affected by the earthquakes.
The fact that Pedro Sánchez gives us this "stick" accentuates the great hypocrisy of the PSOE and Citizens in Lorca, that they were tearing the clothes making the victims believe by the earthquakes that worked for them, but that the first thing they have done when they had to fight has been to be submissive and make up excuses to cover up this robbery.
While the PP has ruled, we have had the IBI bonus, but Pedro Sánchez arrived and forgot about the victims.
The difference between the treatment that the PP and PSOE governments have had with the IBI bonus is very evident: while in 2012 the Government of Mariano Rajoy carried out a Royal Decree Law to favor the reconstruction that included the IBI bonus, Pedro Sánchez He hasn't done anything.
Pedro Sánchez, instead of helping the victims has robbed them of the IBI bonus, and now his inability to agree, and his duel of arrogance with Podemos, lead us back to a general election.
Let no one forget what is happening.
We are tired of Citizens and PSOE of Lorca drain the bulge and lie on this issue.
The last time was last night, when in front of the Ceclor Plenary, they again said that a functioning Government cannot approve Royal Decrees.
It is a lie that we clarify again: it is absolutely false.
A functioning Government can not only approve Royal Decrees, it is that in recent months the PSOE has approved almost 40 for what it has wanted.
Of course none to help those affected by earthquakes.
The reality also had to recognize last night: "That we get to the idea that you have to pay it, period."
As if that were not enough, the "camel" that the current mayor has taken from his sleeve has already fallen, saying that he was going to delay the date on which the receipts are rotated to keep the bonus.
He has already admitted that this cannot be done, something he knew perfectly from the beginning because the officials themselves had warned him.
The Lorca regional deputy, María del Carmen Ruiz, said that since the Popular Party has worked intensely before all administrations to prevent this moment from coming, presenting motions before the Plenary of the City Council, the Regional Assembly, Propositions of Law in Congress of the Deputies
This setback makes us lose to Lorca another 3 million euros that the central government owes to the city to finance works and services of infrastructure, equipment and services of municipal ownership, and the remission of 50% of the interests that are still being requested to the recipients of public aid for the arrangement of their homes.
Let all Lorca members know that the PSOE has carried out almost 40 Decree Laws.
It seems "unpresentable" that they have not had with Lorca the sensitivity they have had for minor issues.
The victims did not deserve this abuse.
We are talking about a "sablazo" against those affected by the earthquakes of 7.5 million euros, a real barbarity.
Around 44,000 receipts will be affected.
We must underline that also the dynamics of the Congress of Deputies would have allowed to approve this Decree Law in the Permanent Delegation at any time, but have not wanted to move a single finger through Lorca.
There have been 4 initiatives that have been carried out by the PP in Congress.
Thus, on August 21, 2018 we presented an initiative (NLP) requesting the remission of State interests so that those affected by the earthquakes can justify their aid.
On October 30, 2018, we again claim through a partial amendment to the state budget project both the 50% bonus of the IBI and the extension of the agreement amounting to 3 million euros, and in February 2019 we again raised a NLP for the IBI bonus.
Source: PP Lorca