MADRID, 29 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister for Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda, Raquel Sánchez, has defended that one out of every three euros invested in the Mediterranean corridor has been allocated to Catalonia and that several actions have already been completed and are in service in that region.
This was expressed by the minister in the Congress of Deputies and in the face of criticism from the CUP, a political party that has indicated that eight times more will be invested in the Atlantic corridor than in the Mediterranean and that these investments will go through Madrid.
Sánchez replied that since the PSOE government took office in 2018, the length of the Mediterranean corridor has increased by 254 kilometers, of which 51 pass through Catalonia, at the same time that 2,000 million euros have been invested, of which that 676 million belong to that same region.
“I don’t know what is bothering you or where you see the problem, if we are investing in the Mediterranean corridor or if it is also investing in other areas of Spain and in other autonomous communities. If what bothers you is what second, that it be invested in other territories, well look, make them look at it, because of course the prosperity of some cannot be to the detriment of others If they think otherwise, they have a problem and also have a lack of coherence with their political ideology because you proclaim the fraternal relationship between peoples and solidarity, but we do not know if perhaps you do not think so with respect to other Spaniards”, said the minister.
Subsequently, he has denied that one corridor is prioritized over another, since both the Atlantic and the Mediterranean have a similar amount of around 1,700 million euros assigned in the 2023 budgets.
For his part, CUP deputy Albert Botran has criticized the government’s lack of commitment, assuring that in 2011 the socialist minister José Blanco said that the corridor would be finished in 2020 and in 2018 José Luis Ábalos set this date in 2021.
“Since the PSOE was in government in 2018, certainly 4,000 million have been tendered, of which 2,000 have been executed, but this corridor has not been finished. 15 days ago you announced that for the Atlantic corridor, whose main section is finished , they would invest eight times more, 16,000 million euros”, Boltran pointed out.
“We have nothing against the economies that need this Atlantic corridor, but we are against Madrid’s centralism that absorbs resources and population and that even wants to satelliteize the population, because the investments designed for the Atlantic corridor pass through Madrid,” he said. added the deputy of the CUP.
