The new elections called urge the parties to take out the artillery and start up the institutional machinery. Thus, the Junta de Andalucía has published the order for the elaboration of the budgets for the coming year in which it gives priority to aspects that concern Andalusian society such as health, education or the fight against drought.
This is confirmed in the Official Gazette of the Junta de Andalucía (BOJA), which publishes this Wednesday the order of the Ministry of Economy, Finance and European Funds that dictates the rules for the preparation of the Budget of the Autonomous Community for 2024, which will put in the foreground the "improvement of the public services network of the Andalusian social protection system", the "support for the sectors most affected by the drought" and the "transformation of the economic model based on digitization and the transition to a decarbonized economy that favors the creation of quality employment".
The order, which enters into force this Thursday, June 1, details that "the largest financial allocations of the 2024 Budget will correspond to social spending, particularly health, education and dependency care", so that next year "will continue on effort that the community has been making in health matters, whose weight over regional GDP is at all-time highs, as well as in both university and non-university education".
In addition, in 2024 "investments in water will occupy a fundamental place" because the Board considers that "the dramatic situation of lack of rain in Andalusia forces us to mobilize available resources, prolonging the considerable effort that is already being made in the year 2023 " with the aim of "providing fundamental support to meet the needs of the agri-food sector of great weight in the regional economy and employment, but also of capital importance for industry and tourism".
In general, the Board maintains the commitment to formulate the Board's accounts for the next financial year "with respect for the principles of budgetary stability, financial sustainability and multi-year planning, maintaining the optimization of the sources of income as fundamental axes of management. revenue, the execution of EU funds, and the efficiency of spending, promoting measures for the rational use of public resources, such as spending review procedures and spending rationalization plans, transparency and accountability".
The Ministry of Economy and Finance highlights in the order that the accumulated growth of the Andalusian economy in terms of GDP "doubles the average growth of the country as a whole" in the last four years, in which "a substantial improvement in the reduction of unemployment, the leadership in the number of self-employed and the creation of companies or the convergence with Europe in the regional competitiveness indices".
Regarding the 2024 financial year, the Board points out that "the outlook for the world economy foresees moderate growth for Spain, accompanied by a drop in inflation and a boost to employment" and stresses that "the estimates of the Andalusian economy from the main centers studies point to a better performance than the country as a whole, higher than the euro zone and the advanced economies as a whole".
Along with this, the Ministry of Economy points out European aid as a "pillar of singular importance" for the 2024 Budget, an exercise in which it hopes that "the acceleration in the execution of the funds of the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism in Ecuador will continue of its period of validity and the implementation of the Addendum to the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan", in addition to "attending the final deployment of the Structural Funds that correspond to the Community in the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework".
In his opinion, "both sources of income represent a first-rate opportunity to promote the transformation of the Andalusian economy towards a model in which environmental sustainability is the primary banner and in which digitization acts as an instrument of modernization and lever of innovation of the business fabric with a view to progress towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and in particular to reduce the inequality gaps between men and women".
