Several popular autonomous governments threatened two months ago that they would go to court if an agreement was finally reached on Catalonia’s debt relief or what they considered an illegal regional financing measure. It was during the first plenary session of the General Commission of the Autonomous Communities of the Senate, in which the eleven presidents of the PP intervened, when the content of the pacts signed between the PSOE and the nationalist and independence forces regarding the investiture of Pedro was revealed, which was still unknown. Sanchez. This Tuesday, when the concessions were not yet finalized, the population’s warning has so far been translated into the debate in the Upper House on a motion calling for reform of the regional financing system through “multilateral” negotiations. “You’ll get tired of hearing us demand equality. He offers us crumbs,” criticized the popular Minister of Presidency, Interior and Culture of Aragon, Tomasa Hernández, in a meeting attended by both the spokesmen of the political groups and several advisers from the local authorities.
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During the General Commission of the Autonomous Communities this Tuesday, in addition to this regional funding proposal, another proposal was debated in which the Senate, with an absolute majority of the population, requests the rejection of the proposed amnesty law for the defendants. for the process, the processing of which will slow down the PP in the upper house as much as possible. PP Senator María Salom opened the session with sharp attacks on the Prime Minister over the economic agreements reached with ERC and Junts. “The blackmail that Pedro Sánchez has indulged in is petty. The new financing system is that a community arrives, takes what it wants and can make do with what is left. “This is nonsense,” criticized the Balearic parliamentarian and appealed to the urgency of modifying a model from “14 years ago”.
The PSOE agrees with the need to update regional financing, but has confronted the position taken this Tuesday by the PP, which during Mariano Rajoy’s two terms in office did not favor this reform. “Either they have short memories or they didn’t care. Now all the hassle and all the threats have come to them,” said Juan Espadas. The PSOE’s recently appointed spokesman in the Senate also criticized the governments of Juan Manuel Moreno in Andalusia and that of Isabel Díaz Ayuso in the Community of Madrid for the “incoherence” in demanding greater regional funding from the central government at the same time they are cutting taxes large fortunes, leading to “tax dumping” between territories.
Several PP presidents have specifically called on the government to convene the Fiscal Policy Council after the Socialists agreed with Esquerra to cancel 20% of Catalonia’s debt to the Autonomous Liquidity Fund (FLA). A forum that the PP also referred to this Tuesday in the Senate. “If they dare to present a real proposal, we will be ready to listen,” replied Socialist Senator Juan Lobato.
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The first vice president of Xunta de Galicia, Diego Calvo, had so much desire to debate the amnesty that was the protagonist of the anecdote of the day. When he first took the floor as senators and city councilors debated regional funding, Calvo rushed and began attacking the pardon measure for those prosecuted in the trial, the discussion of which was relegated to second place on the agenda, which resulted in the surprise of the audience and the warning of the President of the Commission, the also popular Luisa Fernanda Rudi. “Coexistence is not guaranteed by exchanging votes for immunity. “Amnesty as payment is unaffordable and morally indecent,” Calvo later said at the right moment.
Several PP regional governments have also announced that they will appeal to the Constitutional Court following the adoption of the proposed amnesty law. “He negotiated power against the framework of coexistence. Dare to give an explanation to all the Autonomous Communities,” added Antonio Sanz, advisor to the Presidency of the Junta de Andalucía, who recalled and repeated the request of the regional presidents of the PP to La Moncloa to convene the Conference of the Presidents of the Junta autonomous communities. Regardless of whether this appointment takes place or not, the PP will continue to strike against the transfers of the General Commission of the Autonomous Communities of the Senate to Sánchez’s investiture partners.
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