スペインの甘いワインで有名な人口20'000人のJEREZ DE LA FRONTERA市役所は、放漫経営で累積赤字が10億0000'0000ユーロに達し、破産した街
Jerez, la ciudad fallida
Los impagos del Ayuntamiento han bloqueado la mayoría de los servicios públicos
El municipio arrastra una deuda de casi mil millones
Ana Huguet Jerez de la Frontera 24 OCT 2012 - 21:02 CET
Jerez, the city failed
Hall defaults have blocked most public services
The municipality carries a debt of nearly one billion
Huguet Ana Jerez 24 OCT 2012 - 21:02 CET
Jerez is for many, many years a global brand. Its wines, their horses and, more recently, its speed circuit brighten own planetary scale and to this city of over 200,000 inhabitants, the fifth of Andalusia. But Jerez is a disaster. The city of Cadiz has become a symbol of mismanagement municipal colossal debt in boom years, followed by utter economic collapse and suffering of their neighbors, the pagan inevitable almost 1,000 million euros of debt accumulated.
Jerez has 34,006 unemployed and an unemployment rate of over 35%. Industrial activity accounts for only 6% of the local economy. In just a few years, the town has lost two sugar, a dairy plant and a bottle factory. After the conversion of the vine, its main activity, wine, employs just 2,000 people, compared to the 10,000 that came to occupy. "At Jerez owe industrialization since the crisis of the conversion of the vine. Here are no industries. The city can not go on, "complains the local secretary of CCOO, José Manuel Trillo.
Trampled industry, the city of Jerez is since 2000 the main company. The Consistory Jerez drag a debt of 958.7 million euros, according to data from 2010, an annual deficit of 31 billion euros and a negative residual overhead 421,950,000. Revenues from taxes do not cover the costs of the Consistory, the municipality has exhausted its share advances in the tributes of the Andalusian and the government has retained 100% of the revenue share of the State (PIE) for a debt Treasury and Social Security with 120 million euros.
A couple of figures shed light on the path that led to the current situation. The Cabildo de Jerez intended as personnel 84 million euros, almost 20 more than before 2004, the date of the beginning of a term of political pacts that marked this from Jerez. Already in crisis, the Administration has continued spending Jerez 15.7 million per year in bonuses and productivity of their employees, 75% of whom accessed the post without opposition. Salaries above 100,000 euros gross per year, no budget monumental works, an increase in staff of up to 25% in four years.
Industrial activity only accounts for 6% of the local economy
The city is now paying the successes and mistakes of the different governments of Jerez. The historic leader Pedro Pacheco andalucista directed the city for 24 years, with two-year agreements as well as the PP and the PSOE included. The two major parties have also ruled the city alone, the Socialists with Pilar Sanchez at the helm, and the PP with María José García Pelayo, current mayor absolute majority.
Hall defaults have blocked almost all public services. Since 2010, Jerez has suffered more than five bus strikes, four strikes in cleaning public schools, two in home care, one in the maintenance of public lighting, another in parks and gardens, one in sewer and still going on in the firehouse. And more are coming. On November 1 started an indefinite strike street cleaning and garbage collection. The president of the council of housekeeping schools, whose strike has left 5,000 schoolchildren unable to attend class-Immaculate Barea sums up the situation: "Jerez is to have a bonfire on every corner".
A year ago, the local government passed a severe austerity plan. The City Council must reach a zero deficit in 2013 required by the central government in 10 years and return the 328 million euros that entered from ICO empowered by the state to settle debts to suppliers. García Pelayo has approved layoffs for 260 city workers, preparing a second ERE in the municipal holding companies over 150 employees, has cut staff salaries by 11.5%, the costs of the Corporation by 40%, and current expenditures by 20%. Rate has risen to 50% trash, wants to privatize water management to attract 80 million and has cut investment in all services 20%.
Despite the collapse, the mayor tries to sell optimism: "Jerez is solvable. In two months we will have solved the liquidity problems. 2013 is the year of investment and citizens. Mark Sherry Hall is over. "
Cleaning the strike called off
Jerez on Wednesday closed another chapter of the ongoing conflict experienced by the municipality. The cleaning returns on Thursday at 47 public schools in the city after nine days of strikes. The local dealership workers decided to suspend the strike after noticing the majority of wage arrears. The staff stopped the protest after collecting a payroll and average due from the City Jerez.
Pending that employees return to their jobs on Thursday and clean school facilities, hundreds of classes remain closed for unsanitary problems. The strike has left 282 kindergarten and primary classes closed on a total of 24 public schools, more than half of the schools in the city. The Andalusian Wednesday in 7050 estimated the affected students.
The president of the council, Immaculate Barea, said that if the protests will resume in early November, the Consistory has not paid the balance of wages owed. "O deliver what they have committed in November and we pay half the payroll of September and October, or return to war," said Barea.
This was the second strike schools cleaning of Jerez in 2012 and the fourth in just over a year. The latest protest convened last March, also lasted nine days, forced to completely close 13 schools, leaving 6,000 students without classes.
At the same time that workers in assembly approved the strikes after the announcement to postpone the payment of payroll and a half, parents and children took to the streets. With pans, whistles and horns demanded an immediate solution to the conflict. "Pay now. That they get the money from wherever they want and stop cutting for the underdog! "Exclaimed one of the mothers after the Central banner. "In my school class can not be. The yard is dirty and you can not enter. Crouch. And turn to duck ... "chanted the children from Jerez City Hall.
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