Feijóo calls the regional financing proposal “improvisation”
Only the Catalan Minister of Economy and Finance, Alicia Romero, has shown, in statements to the press upon her arrival at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, where the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council (CPFF) is taking place this Wednesday, a good disposition towards the new regional financing system proposed by the Executive. Romero has stated that the proposal improves financing not only for his community but for all of them and makes a much fairer and more equitable system, which is why he has asked for “responsibility and a calm and rational debate”, with figures on the table.
Against the Government’s proposal, the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has assured that the meeting of the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council where the Government’s regional financing proposal is addressed will prove that everything has been an “improvisation” so that Pedro Sánchez remains in La Moncloa for a few more months. In an interview on Telecinco, Feijóo was in favor of updating the current system and recalled that his party sent its proposal to the Government in September 2024 without receiving a response to it.
Apart from the representative of Catalonia, the rest of the councilors, including that of the socialist executive of Castilla-La Mancha, have shown their rejection of the proposal and have protested because the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the leader of ERC, Oriol Junqueras, announced a bilateral agreement on the system before Montero explained it.
He conselleThe Valencian Treasury representative, José Antonio Rovira, explained that he comes to the meeting to defend that Valencians cannot “continue to be second-class citizens in regional financing” and must “have the same rights as any other citizen of Spain.”
Juan Alfonso Ruiz Molina, Minister of the Treasury of Castilla-La Mancha, has complained that the financing proposal has not been negotiated within the PSOE and thus resolutions approved at the last Federal Congress in Seville have been breached and has denounced the absolute “lack of respect” for forms.
The representative of the Junta de Andalucía, Carolina España, has said that she went to the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council “with a lot of uncertainty and also with a lot of indignation” because what she has called the “Montero financing model”, which in her opinion “is stillborn”, means “champagne and caviar” for the independence movement and “the menu of the day, but without dessert” for the rest of the communities.
The head of Economy and Finance of the region of Murcia, Luis Alberto Marín, has announced that they are going to ask that this financing system that “has already been born perverted” be withdrawn because it is “subject to the wishes of the independence movement and separatism” and that it be started again from scratch, with all the regional governments.
The Minister of Economy and Finance of Castilla y León, Carlos Fernández Carriedo, has regretted having learned “through the mouth of Oriol Junqueras” of the system that Vice President Montero must now explain and has highlighted that he comes to defend that “the money of all Spaniards has to be used to finance the services of all Spaniards” and not for the President of the Government to “pay a political price.”
The acting Extremaduran Minister of Finance and Public Administration, Elena Manzano, has stated that the Government’s proposal is “the consecration of inequality between territories” and has warned that if it is approved in these terms it will use “all the weapons” of the legal system “to combat this inequality.”
Miguel Corgos, Galician Minister of the Treasury, has stated that “when those who prepare the model proposal are part, the result also tends to meet the specific needs of that part but sometimes the others are forgotten”, as he believes happens in this case.
According to the counselor of the Community of Madrid, Rocío Albert, we have to wait to see how Vice President Montero, whom she has referred to as “Mr. Junqueras’s delegate,” presents a model “with which not even the autonomous communities of the Socialist Party agree.” (Efe)
