The municipalities say enough is enough against the loss of rural services and propose shock measures

Trabazos has opened the ban, a council that is especially symbolic in this cause as its mayor, Javier Faúndez, president of the Tierras de Aliste association and who served as spokesperson for all the associations during the meeting last December, in which they announced the measures that the municipalities would take against Unicaja if the situation of rural services did not improve in 2022.

This is how the first response of the Zamora town councils, which it is expected to continue in a rout during the coming weeks, as agreed by the presidents of all the associations last December.

In that case, Unicaja could lose “several hundred million euros”, according to statements by Faúndez in the aforementioned appearance.

This agreement came in the face of the situation that drowning that the neighbors of the country world suffer for years due to the gradual closing of offices and that in January it crossed the red line with the total cancellation of the on-demand service, a bus service that until a few weeks ago allowed the oldest residents of the rural world to collect their pensions.

The Commonwealth of Tierras de Aliste will analyze in the coming days the situation of the rural services that Unicaja currently offers. If the deletion is verified, the association will also proceed to close accounts with the entity from Malaga, says Faúndez, a decision that was already approved by the association last December, in the last plenary session of the year, and that although it is waiting for the last review Everything seems to indicate that it will also consummate the closing of the accounts.

Regarding the individual accounts of the enlisted city councils, “in that plenary session, everyone voted in favor,” says the president of the association, a unanimous decision that indicates that the municipal coffers will also leave the entity, although no last-minute exception should be ruled out, as in the case of San Vitero, which will recover its bank branch “as soon as possible” as confirmed by Unicaja to the mayor of the municipality, Vanesa Mezquita, last week.

The association of Tierra del Vino also expects to fully approve the decision to withdraw the entity’s accounts, as explained by the president of the association and mayor of Madridanos, Ángel Sánchez.

It is expected that all the associations, which bring together almost one hundred percent of Zamora’s rural municipalities, make effective the closure of your accounts during the next few weeks with Unicaja, according to what the presidents of the same expressed in the meeting last December.