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Neither is it a "kick forward" nor is the legislature closed "blank." The Andalusian Government is determined to show that it has caught
the bull by the horns
of the reorganization of the
parallel administration
, the network of agencies, public companies and foundations inherited from the socialist governments and that threatens to become a
hot potato
for the Executive of Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla. The Board has invested a lot of resources and a lot of time in carrying out a diagnosis of the situation but it has not yet found the formula to reduce the high cost that this conglomerate has for the public coffers, despite having verified that many of these organizations
are redundant.
, they assume functions that should be in the hands of officials or, simply, they do not contribute greater efficiency to the management of the competences that were entrusted to them.
The last decision of the Executive has been to create
a "working group" or "special commission"
in Parliament to evaluate the results of the audits carried out by different private companies on 54 entities, the results of which have been made known to the public. public throughout this summer.
Previously, as soon as it took office, the Andalusian Government commissioned the General Intervention of the Board an analysis that made it possible to know all the operating defects
and the
degree of efficiency
of each of these organisms.
Not happy with it, and in compliance with what was agreed with Vox at the beginning of the legislature, a series of external audits was subsequently commissioned, so that the diagnosis was expert and independent. The Board put out to tender the audits
for 3 million euros,
although the final award cost was reduced by practically a third.
The result of these works has been known this summer but, immediately, after making it public, the Andalusian Government announced that it would forward the reports to Parliament to study them in a special commission. The PP parliamentary spokesman,
José Antonio Nieto
, calculated this week that the conclusions of that working group could be ready before the summer of 2022, which leaves little room for decision-making, given that the regional elections will be, at best late in the fall. In the case of the elections, they were ahead of the spring - an option that is not ruled out in the Andalusian Government -, the parliamentary work would not even be concluded.
The vice president of the Board, Juan Marín, corrected José Antonio Nieto last Thursday and pointed out that the work of the parliamentary commission could be limited in time to avoid unnecessary delays. When asked by EL MUNDO, Marín denied that creating such a working group is
"giving a kick forward"
to decision-making. Nor does he admit that the legislature is going to close "blank" on an issue that the coalition government had turned, at least in speeches, into an inalienable goal: to reduce and
rationalize public spending
by eliminating superfluous entities that In many cases, they had become a drain to give a public salary to militants and former socialist public officials.
"We are giving Parliament the role it should have in solving this problem that we have inherited," insisted the vice president of the Board, who recalled that all the studies commissioned have not prevented the Andalusian Government, in parallel, from
"closing beach bars"
and reorganizing the sector.
The most relevant initiative in this regard has been the decision to merge four public entities. On August 3, the Governing Council gave the green light to the decree creating
Andalucía Trade
(the
Andalusian Economic Development and Transformation Agency
), which will absorb the functions, resources and staff of the foreign promotion agency Extenda, the Andalucía Emprende Foundation, the Knowledge Agency and the Andalusian Innovation and Development Agency, IDEA. The Minister of the Presidency,
Elías Bendodo
, firmly affirmed that, with this new agency, "the first step" was being taken to begin to dismantle the entire
clientelist system.
that socialism had mounted in Andalusia for 40 years, and had allowed the socialists "to go doped to the elections."
His Vox partners, however, are much less optimistic about the real effect this merger will have on reducing public spending, which is what it's all about after all.
In fact, Vox has refused to give its vote to that decree.
In fact, the Andalusian Government took it forward thanks to the abstention of United We Can, after being forced to transform the decree into
a bill
, which guarantees a more participatory process and also slower to process.
During the debate, the
spokesman for Vox,
Manuel Gavira
, accused the PP and Cs of giving
the Andalusians a
"pig for a hare"
and of giving up cleaning the agencies of the "plugged in" of the PSOE to put their own.
The fact is that the merger will have a very relative effect on reducing costs, since the Andalusian Government itself has guaranteed that there will be no layoffs, despite having maintained for months that the PSOE had turned these entities into "employment agencies" and of reported bonuses and duplications in staff and expenses.
In fact, a report from the Ministry of Finance, published last week by Europa Press, doubts that the merger will automatically mean savings. Moreover, the text, prepared by the General Directorate of Budgets of the Ministry of Finance, considers it "complex" to evaluate cost savings since this is linked to "a series of factors that cannot be specified at the present time." In this regard, the Ministry of Economic Transformation, in which the new agency is registered, argues that the reduction in spending will depend on "the
negotiation processes with the workforce
depending on the resulting staff structure;
the determination of the administrative headquarters;
and the determination of the human and material resources that the management and general services of the Trade agency will have. "In other words, we'll see. For now, the Andalusian Government plans for the new Trade agency to have a budget of 332 million and about
1,400 employees
.
The downsizing is, in a way, the cornerstone of the debate on the reordering of the 'parallel administration'.
And carrying it out is not just a matter of political will, but it would require a complex surgical operation to avoid the mistakes of the past, when the dismissals that the socialist government once undertook ended up turning against the Junta.
The Andalusian Government itself, the current one, recalls that the Board has paid
more than 80 million euros
for the fiasco of the reorganization undertaken by the PSOE, which ended with the courts of Justice giving the reason to the dismissed workers, who had acquired some labor rights regardless of how they accessed public positions or whether or not they responded to a real need for service.
As it will be recalled, the socialist government liquidated a hundred entities (the
95 consortiums
called Territorial Units of Employment, Local Development and Technology,
Utedlt
) and
dismissed the 792 people
who worked in them: 95 directors and 697 technicians or local promotion agents and employment (Alpe). The process was so irregular that it even led to the accusation of subsidy fraud, embezzlement and prevarication of the then SAE director and manager, the socialist
Antonio Ávila
, and some thirty other people, although the case was finally shelved. But the labor jurisdiction forced the Board to indemnify and reinstate the workers.
That failure now forces the Andalusian Government, at least, to be cautious in the elimination of entities and the amortization of positions.
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