The President of the Region of Murcia, Fernando Lopez Mirasshowed his willingness to meet the President of the Government, Pedro Sanchezto discuss issues affecting the community it governs, but stresses that regional funding “must be negotiated multilaterally”The PP leader thus defends that this issue be debated between the central government and all the regional presidents. “Do not count on the Region of Murcia if you want to establish a bilateral negotiation with the territories to harm some to the detriment of others,” he stressed.
“And I look forward to being summoned to sit down with him and be able to tell him this face to face,” López Miras said this Thursday in statements to the media. The Murcian president hopes to make Sánchez understand that his community has been “harmed by the regional financing system” since 2009. These statements by López Miras come after the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Diaz Ayusoasked the PP presidents not to sit down bilaterally with Pedro Sánchez to talk about economic financing. “I ask the regional presidents that if there is a meeting, everyone goes together because this government is going to try to bribe us one by one in La Moncloa“, Ayuso argued.
The president of the Region of Murcia believes that the reform of the regional financing system “must be done in a multilateral and not bilateral manner”, in the presence of all the territorial presidents. “This must be reformed in a multilateral manner, with the 17 autonomous communities sitting at the same table, making our proposals and, with a willingness for dialogue and consensus, reaching an agreement,” he noted, while affirming that “this is how the Conference of Presidents and the Fiscal Policy Council establish it.” and financial.
“I can’t wait to be called in to sit down with him and say this to his face. We are given less money than to the rest of the Spanish people to reduce our waiting lists in health, to hire our teachers every year or, for example, for help with dependency,” he said.
“I’ve been asking for an appointment for 5 years”
Pedro Sánchez announced this Wednesday that he would bilaterally summon each of the regional presidents to a working meeting at the Moncloa Palace. He did so at an event held at the Madrid Institute to open the new political course. The Prime Minister transformed the event into a PSOE rally and took the opportunity to attack the communities governed by the PP, especially the Community of Madrid.
Fernando López Miras explained that he had been requesting meetings with Pedro Sánchez “since 2018” to discuss issues affecting the Region of Murcia.I have been systematically asking him by mail for five years to Sánchez to meet him. There are many issues to resolve with the Region of Murcia,” he said.
“Pedro Sanchez was without wanting to sit down with the Government of the Region of Murcia to talk about water. The reserves in the Segura basin are less than 17% and it is the most deficient in the country,” he explained. “Contrary to what one might expect, that is, that the Spanish government will provide solutions, what it wants is to continue cutting the Tagus-Segura transfer,” he lamented.
“He created the problem himself”
Finally, Fernando López Miras explained that “we must talking about the immigration crisis “which particularly affects, within the peninsula, the Region of Murcia.” “We must obviously talk about regional financing,” he added.
In any case, the Murcian president celebrated the fact that Sánchez now wants to meet with the presidents of the autonomous communities after “having been involved” in the “problem” of the Catalan quota that “he himself generated”The PSOE agreed with ERC that Catalonia would collect 100% of taxes, in exchange for the separatists voting for Salvador Illa as the new president of the Generalitat.
“Sanchez generated this problem because the PSOE of Catalonia agreed bilaterally with the Catalan independentists on a financing system that privileges the Catalans and harms the rest of the Spaniards“especially the most underfunded, like those in Murcia. If all this means that Sánchez tries to get out of this drift and meet with the presidents of the autonomous communities, who are the ordinary representatives of the State in our territories, he is welcome,” he concluded.
