Public-private investment in infrastructure will make it possible to create nearly 40,000 jobs in Andalusia

The President of the Junta de Andalucía, José Antonio Griñán, has filed in Seville with about 150 construction companies, financial institutions and social agents the first infrastructure projects that licitarán through forms of public-private partnership between the second half of 2010 and the first of 2011. These investments, which already announced Griñán in the Debate on the State of the community, added an amount of 2676 million euros and will allow the creation of nearly 40,000 jobs in the next few years, 60% of them direct. The Andalusian Government works in the search for alternatives that will allow further development of infrastructure in the current scenario of budgetary stability, through the promotion of public-private partnership formulas. In this regard, the President has embraced this model as one of the instruments "more effective" in the current economic scenario, and pointed out that allow you to place the private initiative as the "engine of the recovery".

Thanks to this method, projects are carried out and financed by the private sector with own resources or through mechanisms of indebtedness. The Administration during the period of the infrastructure concession, through the fee they receive for their maintenance, in the case of roads or well thanks to the use of the berth and lucrative uses resarce to this investment firms, in the port. Griñán reminded that Andalusia has been a "traditionally inversora" community, as demonstrated by the progressive growth, year after year, this matter, or even the impetus to investment in public works and equipment in the first phase of the economic crisis to "compensate for the fall of the private domestic demand and avoiding a recession much" "more serious".