However much anarchist drive is carried inside, there is always a suspicion. The budgets carried out for three years (we are still living in the last of Cristóbal Montoro), the institutional blockade, the double call for elections during this year, with their corresponding Cortes dissolutions ... The paralysis may not have a direct effect on our daily life, although that does not mean that there is no one who is suffering. For example, the Spanish cultural sector.

One of the effects of this situation is that the nominative subsidies granted by the Ministry of Culture through its different agencies are not reaching their recipients. To the problems derived from the budget extension must be added the lack of a government. A perfect storm in which the creators or institutions that have granted aid since the beginning of the year wait and wait for the settlement to be resolved. Faced with the budget extension, a possible solution would be a Royal Decree that unblocked payments. However, this cannot be applied, since councils of ministers are no longer called.

"Our festival has become endangered, since we could not meet the deadlines." This is how Pepe Bablé laments, director of the Ibero-American Theater Festival of Cádiz, whose 34th edition starts on October 18 after many adventures that have even made his call unfeasible. In the case of this appointment, says its head, "almost 50% of the budget" comes from the ministerial assistance granted through the National Institute of the Performing Arts and Music (INAEM). There is the paradox that, although the subsidy that the festival receives is nominative, the different payments that it has to make are made through a system of specifications, by public tender.

"It has affected us especially, because all the planning was done," explains Bablé, who points out that it has been the City Council of Cádiz, as responsible for all the fiscal powers of the board, who has advanced the money committed and necessary for the celebration of Quote. "All this is part of a political issue and, therefore, the politicians are responsible," complains Bablé. "The problem is in the process of being solved, although it is not yet solved."

Jesús Cimarro, director of the Pentación group (which manages the Fine Arts and La Latina Theater in Madrid, as well as the Mérida Classical Theater Festival), explains the consequences for theater entrepreneurs like him. "Due to the lack of liquidity, you have to ask for credit lines from the banks, which generates a series of expenses and makes you cost more money," he says. «Uncertainty is bad. But it is that the Treasury is a mystery ».

Although the situation of blocking of nominative aid extends to other areas, such as Museums, Heritage and Cinematography. Performing arts are the most affected. And this is not limited only to the theater. Dance and music are also blocked. Authorization has been requested to be able to pay the nominative aid, "but we still don't know anything," they shrug at INAEM.

These grants are intended to support the organization of lyric seasons, music festivals or help national and international tours, as in the case of the INAEM Touring theaters program, from which many of the emerging stars of our country have emerged. Maybe a festival like Sónar, which has been granted a ministerial aid of 15,000 euros, does not suffer much for its paralysis, but the municipality of Canfranc (Huesca) or the Festival of Ancient Music of Úbeda and Baeza.

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