Montero will adjust financing, but leveling funding Consell needs hangs in the air

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Finance Minister María Jesús Montero assures that, after the summer, he will send a new proposal to the autonomous communities for an adjusted population-based criteria-based financing model requested by the Valencian Community. beginning, most ill-treated in the distribution of funds. Thus, Montero is committed to adjusting the initial approach based on claims registered by regions earlier this year. However, this is a reform that will not be considered until the next legislature. Meanwhile, the worst-funded autonomies – the Valencia region and Andalusia – are unlikely to receive the extra income, the leveling fund demanded to make up for their missing funds. Not because, according to the minister, the autonomies governed by Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s PP had to be accepted first.

The Generalitat applauded the announcement, which Montero saw with great eyes this Thursday, as it contributes to clearing a bottleneck. A very important issue for Valencian interests. However, this is of limited joy as different regional sources agree that it will be very difficult to reach an agreement, at least in the short term. In order for the new model to be approved in Congress, there must be a green light not only between regions but also between parties. And this is something that seems very complex in the context of absolute pre-election polarization. The main opposition party in the community does not directly trust the minister’s word.

After 31 January for the Autonomies to present the argument to the Treasury proposal for the adjusted population financing calculation, Montero said in an interview with the EFE that the Treasury «didn’t stay idle», because transfers to communities and payments to the account continued every year. To this end, it has taken advantage of the extraordinary resources injected into communities to meet the needs of the pandemic, and has criticized regional governments for continuing to be “protected by the model of maximums that each advocates”.

At the last meeting of the Fiscal and Fiscal Policy Council, Montero criticized that positions between communities continued to conflict and that PP-administered regions were unequal when it came to finding a formula for funding autonomies based on adjusted population. reactions. He admitted that the closeness of the next election scenarios didn’t help.

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Finance Minister, socialist Arcadi Spain, valued that Montero’s new move “allows progress in the process of financing reform by resolving the claims registered by the regions”, as he assures that Generalitat requested at the last Financial and Fiscal Council. Policy. Therefore, he thought the minister was complying with it and that autonomous communities should abide by it, be supportive and be aware that it is not just about the territories but about “equality between Spaniards and Spaniards”.

Mireia Molla, Minister of Agriculture and Ecological Transformation from Compromis, also spoke this Thursday. “If we start with a unanimous and unbroken agreement that the community is underfunded, and that this is causing historic and intolerable debt, then what we should try is to get deals where deals are supposed to be,” he said. Addressing the need to converge positions both between regions and between parties represented in Congress, Mullah said.

Carlos Mazón, head of Diputación de Alicante and leader of the PPCV, showed his distrust of the minister’s announcement to send a new proposal to the communities for financing reform. “It’s hard for me to be well-intentioned,” said the popular, who suggested that Pedro Sánchez and Montero don’t trust “given his background.” He emphasized that it is not possible to comment on this issue, as there has not been an official approach from the Ministry yet.

The truth is that it has been more than six months since the communities submitted their claims to the ministry and they have not received a response to date. All parties in the Valencian Community, except the far right, formed a common front to fight this issue together. We will see whether this unity will be preserved in the next political process that will result in elections.

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