The Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, announced today that the Official State Gazette (BOE) will publish on Monday two tenders related to the Mediterranean Corridor, which will exceed 2,000 million euros and improve rail connections in the Valencian Community.
During the closing of the PP Interparliamentary, Rajoy has indicated that both tenders demonstrate that the Government’s commitment to Valencia and the Mediterranean Corridor “is there and is very serious.”
Specifically, he explained that the drafting of the informative study of the new through-axle railway axis in the city of Valencia, and the drafting of the informative study of the high-speed rail section between Valencia and Castellón will be put out to tender.
Rajoy also recalled, because “there are people who have little memory,” that it has been the PP Government “that has started the works” of the Mediterranean Corridor, that continues with the works of this infrastructure, “and that will end with the works “of a project that is a priority.
As he has said, the Government is aware that infrastructures are “keys” for structuring the territory, and has claimed that Spain is the country in Europe with the best level of infrastructure and the second country in the world in high speed, only surpassed for China.
The “perverse game of territorialization” of infrastructure
For his part, the Minister of Public Works, Íñigo de la Serna, assured that the Government is betting on the “decisive” impulse to the Mediterranean Corridor because it is “a political, economic and social priority” and an “essential” infrastructure to improve the competitiveness of the Valencian Community, and recalled that “others have spoken, speak and will continue to speak a lot, but did little.”
In addition, he has also warned before the 2018 Budgets and the “perverse game of territorialization”, that infrastructure policies “do not make sense if they are examined only from the parameter of territorial limit”.
The minister has valued the infrastructure policy implemented by the Government of Mariano Rajoy, which aims to achieve greater social cohesion by improving communications, and has warned, before the negotiation of the General State Budgets (PGE) of 2018, that sometimes it seems that “if you do not receive an investment that is not in your community, province, city or neighborhood, it seems that you do not benefit or it may be an affront because your neighbor takes it away.”
