Provincial deputy Rhamsés Ripollés pointed out that, although the subsidies have been extended to include municipalities with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants, the overall budget has not been increased. This situation, according to Ripollés, will result in some town councils being left without aid, a scenario that has occurred in previous calls.
“"Promising aid to more municipalities without increasing the budget by a single cent is an administrative trap designed solely to generate a press headline."
The socialist representative described the measure as
pure political marketing
that will generate frustration among mayors who manage these resources for children's activities. Furthermore, he emphasized that the current criteria
consolidate a structural punishment against municipalities with larger populations within the less than 5,000 inhabitants bracket
, which are precisely those that face greater difficulties in accessing these aids despite needing them.
The PSPV-PSOE presented a proposal for improvement in committee to rectify this situation, but the PP, according to Ripollés, preferred to
evade responsibility, demonstrating alarming political shortsightedness and an evident inability to correct obvious planning errors
. The party insists on the need for the Diputación de Castellón to guarantee territorial equity and prevent poorly designed calls from deepening differences between towns, demanding a rectification to adapt them to the real needs of the territory.
