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In the absence of the final approval of the Local Administration Reform Law , the Ministry of Finance has already made important progress in reducing the debts of a large number of town councils in Spain, which have adopted a refinancing plan ten years with restrictions on their powers . The Government wanted to eliminate duplication and, for that reason, the ministry headed by Cristóbal Montoro made it a condition for the aforementioned refinancing that the municipalities only offer residents the services recognized as exclusive for the town councils . As explained in these pages - these powers are: public lighting , cemetery, waste collection, street cleaning, home supply of drinking water, sewage , access to population centers and paving of public roads. To them, others are added such as education, security, health , etc., depending on the size of the municipalities. 3,500 municipalities in surplus The result of this measure is, according to top-level sources from the Ministry of Finance to which El Confidencial Digital has had access , “more than positive.” Specifically, there is evidence that there are already 3,500 municipalities in surplus , something that "seemed impossible at the end of.
In addition, the debts of the town councils have been reduced by a third , which two years ago stood at 35,419,000 euros. 6 million unpaid invoices have been analyzed In all this time, in addition, six million unpaid invoices have been detected and analyzed . For all these South Korea Phone Number cases, the Supplier Payment Plan is being applied , in addition to the ten-year refinancing mechanisms, with the aim of SMEs and the self-employed getting paid as soon as possible and to prevent town councils from running out of liquidity. All these analyses, and the results obtained during the last year, are included in a report that the Treasury has prepared to send to Brussels , as a prior step to the presentation of the Local Administration Reform Law, and to the new adjustments that will be presented by the Government next Friday.As El Confidencial Digital has learned , up to 14 organizations are behind this campaign, among which the Catalan Business Circle , the Association of Municipalities for Independence, the Catalan National Assembly, the Catalan State Federation and Ómnium Cultural stand out . All of them have come together to promote a campaign, especially through Internet forums, to turn the Sant Jordi festival , which is celebrated on Tuesday, April 23, into another independence day event in all the towns of the region.
in the image of what happened on September 11 with the 'Diada '. Demonstrations and esteladas on all balconies The main objective set by the promoters of the initiative is that all the information collected by the media about the festival in Catalonia speaks of demonstrations in favor of independence , and that large estelades are seen in all the streets, just as It happened in the chronicles about Catalonia Day. The Catalan Business Circle, Ómnium Cultural and the rest of the pro-independence platforms have asked Catalans to hang the pro-independence flag on the balconies of their homes on April 23, with the following slogan: “ For Sant Jordi, the book, the rose , and the estelada ”. In this way, according to the aforementioned associations, “we will send a message to all of Spain, in which we reaffirm again that Catalan citizens want to freely decide our future .” They demand the urgent holding of a sovereignty referendum The organizers of the initiative do not overlook that the 'Diada' and the acts in favor of the independence of Catalonia, but above all the large demonstration called that day, precipitated the electoral advance called by Artur Mas and the secessionist program promoted by CiU and Esquerra Republicana. Now, when the 'president' is considering stopping the independence calendar until he can approve the budgets, the aforementioned platforms hope that this new act of force on Sant Jordi's day will force the regional government to hold the sovereignty referendum now .