The delegate of the Andalusian Government, Patricia Navarro, visited on Tuesday the Mijas Town Hall, where she met with the mayoress, Anta Mata. After the institutional visit to Mijas, the highest representative of the Junta de Andalucía in Malaga, Patricia Navarro (PP), began her speech to the media by congratulating the government team for its management at the head of the Town Hall, among other issues, for the recent approval of the 2025 budget. "They are accounts that bring that order that the mayoress was talking about and that stability that the citizens need", said Navarro. For her part, the mayoress of Mijas, Ana Mata (PP), recalled that her team brought forward the 2024 budget "in record time" and that the 2025 budget has already been approved. "We have gone from the improvisation that had prevailed in this Mijas Town Hall with a disastrous management in certain actions that we have inherited, such as the swimming pool in La Cala de Mijas or the sports pavilion, to having an established order through the lines of work that the government will promote in the budgets". 

 

Education and health 

During the meeting it was highlighted that Mijas is one of the main municipalities not only in the province, but also in Andalusia, with exponential growth and a population that will soon reach 100,000 inhabitants. "Mijas has been one of the priorities of the Junta de Andalucía", said Navarro, who added that "this growth is accompanied by families who need an educational placement for their children, so it is no coincidence that it is the municipality in the whole province that has received more investment in educational infrastructure over the last few years and with forecasts for the coming years, with 23.5 million euros and 11 actions for the construction, adaptation or expansion of educational centres. Mijas ranks first in educational infrastructures in the whole province and third in Andalusia", said Navarro, who announced that the Ana Carmona ‘Veleta’ Secondary School in Las Lagunas will soon be officially inaugurated. 

In health matters, Patricia Navarro announced that the Junta de Andalucía and the Mijas Town Hall will sign a collaboration protocol to move forward with the construction and commissioning of the new health centre in the municipality. The delegate thanked the Mijas Town Hall for its collaboration, which will cede a plot of land and construct the building to house the future health centre, which will not only provide primary care, but also specialised and emergency care, as well as the possibility of increasing the range of services as needs dictate over the coming years. "It is going to be one of the most complete infrastructures in primary care and specialities in the province of Malaga", said the delegate, who said that "it will be a pioneering health centre, like the one in El Palo in Malaga, a one-stop centre where patients who come in through the door can leave with a diagnosis and treatment in most cases. In that way we will provide a much more effective response to all the needs of patients".

Mata and Navarro also addressed the situation of the Sierra de Mijas after the fire that devastated the area in 2022. After recalling that the Junta de Andalucía's action was immediate and in less than two months almost two million euros were invested, the delegate recalled that the Consejería de Sostenibilidad y Medio Ambiente is currently processing the tender to remove all the dead material, as well as that waht has been left next to the roads, to avoid any kind of spread of bacteria that could make the mountain sick. This is, according to the delegate, "an essential plant health action to give continuity to the work that was already done in the past and to be able to start reforestation as soon as possible". Once the mountain has been cleaned up, the reforestation process can be carried out, "mainly with Mediterranean woodland, which is what the Sierra de Mijas has, pines, holm oaks, cork oaks and also scrubland". "A mountain range that has concerned us for a long time and now with this government team and these budgets we are also going to continue working on fire prevention", said the mayoress of Mijas. 

 

Housing 

One of the most important problems that society currently faces, access to housing, was another of the issues addressed in the meeting between Navarro and Mata. It is worth remembering that the Mijas Town Council has a municipal public housing plan that includes the construction of almost 550 properties. "I want to praise in a very special way the work that this Town Hall and this government team is doing in this area, because it is not only responding to a current need, but it is focusing this town of Mijas towards the future, which is what is expected of any ruler", said Navarro. "In terms of housing, this Town Hall is going to have the Junta by its side unwaveringly in the two lines it is working on, firstly, in the battle against squatting. Making land available to build and promote affordable housing is the other line of action that is also being carried out by the municipal government", said the delegate. 

The delegate of the Andalusian Government in Malaga, Patricia Navarro, urged the central government to join "with courage" the measures that the Junta de Andalucía and the local town halls are putting in place to alleviate the lack of housing. In this regard, both leaders pointed out that "we need all the institutions with jurisdiction in housing matters to work in the same direction" and "we need greater courage on the part of the Spanish government, we need greater legal certainty, if the housing law offered legal certainty to homeowners we would not have the situation that we have in a province like Malaga, where 8 out of every 10 empty flats are illegally occupied", said Navarro, who added that "this is a brake on many home owners, and I am not talking about large fortunes, but small savers who have a second home and could make it available to the market, but do not do so because of the legal uncertainty generated by the state law".

Finally, both Navarro and Mata assure that they will maintain such meetings because, they stressed, "collaboration between administrations is essential to move forward necessary and important projects for the Mijeños.

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