Óscar Puente withdraws to Andalusia the aid for the free transport of children

The Ministry of Transport considers it a "break" of institutional loyalty to take a state measure and the Board announces criminal proceedings as it sees it "a disproportionate attack" The Andalusian Government announces free metropolitan transport for children under 15 years of age and the Ministry warns it for arrogating the measure The Ministry of Transport has informed the Government of Andalusia of the withdrawal of aid for free public tran…

The socialist Óscar Puente has fulfilled his threat. The minister of Transport published on his social networks this Monday a complaint against the director of Fomento de la Junta de Andalucía, Rocío Díaz , claiming that it had announced in a forum the gratuitousness of public transport for children under 14 years of age from 1 July without clarifying that these aids are state. "This is going to bring a queue", threatened Puente, that this same …

The measure went into effect on July 1 and affected urban and metropolitan transportation for children up to the age of 15. The Andalusian government announces criminal proceedings for an "unfair, arbitrary, and capricious" measure.

The Junta de Andalucía announced last Holy Monday the free public transport to children under 14 years of age. Shortly after, the Minister of Transport, Oscar Puente, stressed in networks that this aid "is financed by the Government of Spain", not the Andalusian administration. "This will bring a queue", said Puente. Only a day later, the warning has come true: the Ministry has withdrawn the subsidies intended for this purpose.The reason is the …

The Ministry of Transport has informed the Government of Andalusia of the withdrawal of aid for the free public transport of children under 14 years of age from the community by failing to comply with the obligation that all communication or dissemination activities of this aid include "expressly" that receive funding from the State. In a letter sent by the Ministry to the Minister of Fomento Andalucia, Rocío Díaz, to which EFE has had access on…

The Ministry of Transport accuses the Board of "breaking" institutional loyalty for failing to clarify that such a bonus for minors is ...