The general coordinator of the PP in Almeria, Carmen Crespo, and the candidate for the Senate, Carmen Belén López Zapata, have participated in an event held on a livestock farm where they have assured that voting for the PP on 23-J is to say yes, to continue supporting the livestock and agricultural sector and to say yes to a National Water Pact, priorities for the candidate for the Presidency of the Government for the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijoo.
Crespo announced that «the PP’s objective is to support the agricultural and livestock sector and that one of the first measures it will implement will be a National Water Pact and will repeal the cuts in the Tajo-Segura». In the words of the PP coordinator, «Andalusia, thanks to the Government of Juanma Moreno, has 3 drought decrees and 300 million euros to combat drought, with a package of 40 million euros to help the agricultural and livestock sector».
The PP coordinator has assured that «livestock is one of the sectors that has benefited the most from the extraordinary measures implemented by the PP government in the Junta with 104 million euros». In this way, the coordinator of the Popular Party in Almeria has concluded by emphasising that «the Andalusian Government is the great ally of the agricultural and livestock sector in the battle against the drought that we are currently experiencing, being the community with the most measures in place».
He also remarked that «Feijoo has announced the review of the strategic plan for the CAP in Spain because we believe that the Community Policy can be improved». According to Crespo, «we believe that this CAP can be improved, we must orient it towards professional agriculture and we have margins to negotiate the changes with Brussels».
He also stressed that «Andalusia has taken 104 million euros from livestock farming to alleviate the crisis and has benefited almost 300 goat dairy farmers in Almeria». He also assured that «the Almanzora region has concentrated more than 75% of the subsidies that the Government of Juanma Moreno has allocated to Almeria in the last three years».
During the visit to the livestock farm in Albox, Crespo said that «the PP has opted for the generational change in the countryside by granting more than 300 million euros in aid for the incorporation of young people». In this sense, he added that «throughout this year, after the last call for 80 million euros, we have already incorporated the figure of 4,000 young people, of which nearly 1,000 have done so in Almeria». Crespo explained that Andalusia has the measure that 4.4% of young people in the countryside are under 25 years old compared to the 3.9% average for Spain. Furthermore, he stressed that «Almeria leads this ranking by almost 8% of young people under 35 years of age in the countryside and is the first Spanish province in the incorporation of young people into agricultural activity».
For her part, Carmen Belén López stated that «the PP’s objective is the urgent need to reactivate the rural world and we are going to do it with a positive tax reduction for people and companies that are committed to the rural world to revitalise the municipalities and enable greater entrepreneurship that will generate more life, employment and economic activity in the municipalities, this being a priority to fix the population in the territory».
