The national president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has announced this Saturday in the Teruel town of Celadas, where he has attended the constitution of the new City Council, an intensive tax reduction for companies that settle in rural areas.
Likewise, he has promised that, if he is president of the Government of Spain, there will be a tax reduction for those who buy housing in the towns to reside in them.
The leader of the popular has also announced a system of residences and free nurseries in the towns to facilitate the reconciliation of families. And it will offer the Autonomous Communities 50% of the budget to make these social facilities.
Feijóo has indicated that he wanted to attend the constitution of a small town hall like Celadas, similar to the one where he was born, to make visible the importance of rural Spain and his commitment to fight against depopulation.
With his presence in Celadas, a town of 362 inhabitants, Feijóo has supported the mayor Raquel Clemente, who has revalidated the absolute majority in the last elections.
“I feel especially proud to be here, with some colleagues from this wonderful town in the province of Teruel, Celadas. With a partner like Raquel Clemente, who has been elected mayor of this municipality for the fourth time and also makes up the list for Congress for Teruel and I hope to be her partner in the next elections on July 23,” the popular leader commented.
Raquel Clemente Muñoz holds the position of National Secretary for the Demographic Challenge within the Popular Party, reporting to the Vice-Secretary for Social Policies.
The emptied Spain
According to the PP, “Feijóo's presence in Celadas is a symbolic gesture and demonstrates the party's interest in visualizing rural Spain, emptied Spain, and its particular problems, to which the party wants to respond.”
A few months before the municipal elections, Feijóo presented a decalogue of measures for the rural world in Teruel and promised that, if he becomes President of the Government of Spain, he will create “specific” taxation for the entire Spanish rural environment, so that “taxes are not a problem to live” in small municipalities.
Celadas is a town in Teruel with 362 inhabitants, located 18 kilometers from the capital of Teruel at the foot of the Sierra de Palomera. In the town, its parish church of Santo Domingo de Silos stands out, a Gothic-Renaissance work from the second half of the 16th century, as well as the hermitage of Santa Quiteria, Baroque from the 17th century, as well as a Renaissance castle rebuilt after the Civil War.
Raque Clemente has held the position of mayor of Celadas since 2011, when she took over from Antonio Andrés Deocón, who, in turn, had governed the municipality since the first municipal elections in 1979, when he ran for the ranks of the now-defunct UCD.