Echenique criticizes that the Government choose Seville and La Coruña for state agencies: It does not help against depopulation

MADRID, 5 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The spokesman for Unidas Podemos in Congress, Pablo Echenique, has criticized this Monday that the Government has granted "large thriving and well-connected provincial capitals" such as Seville and La Coruña to host, respectively, the future headquarters of state agencies such as Espacial and that of Artificial Intelligence.

Through Twitter, Echenique has reacted in this way to the designation of these two cities, made today by the Council of Ministers, noting that it does serve to promote decentralization, but that it does not help "against depopulation."

"With all due respect, locating the headquarters of important state agencies in large, thriving and well-connected provincial capitals is decentralization, it is not fighting depopulation in emptied Spain, nor is it improving territorial cohesion," he published, in a tweet collected by Europa Press, the spokesperson.

The Executive of Pedro Sánchez, of which Podemos is also a part, has launched this process in order to relocate state agencies to fight against depopulation.

In contrast to Echenique's words, the Minister for Territorial Policy and Government spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, congratulated both cities at the press conference after the Council of Ministers and highlighted the two candidacies.

And the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, has highlighted that the choice of La Coruña as the headquarters of the Artificial Intelligence Supervision Agency, together with that of Seville for the future Spanish Space Agency, shows the commitment to a country "with decentralized institutions that brings equality to the whole territory".

Specifically, Seville has beaten another 20 candidacies, while La Coruña has been ahead of 15 municipalities.