The Popular Party announced that its municipal groups in all city councils, provincial councils and autonomous parliaments of Spain would present motions to demand a “fair and united financing”The measure seeks to combat the tax deal envisaged in the agreement between the PSC and the ERC that allowed the investiture of Salvador Illa as president of the Generalitat of Catalonia.
The person in charge of presenting this proposal was the deputy secretary of Autonomous and Local Coordination and Electoral Analysis of the PP, Elias Bendodowho was this Wednesday in Toledo with the president of the party in Castile-La Mancha, Paco Nunez.
The initiative comes from this Community – in which its president, the socialist Emiliano Garcia-Pagehas also spoken out against the pact with the independentists – but it focuses on all the town halls, provincial councils and autonomous parliaments of Spain.
The PP calls on its autonomous, provincial and municipal groups to present these motions in their respective plenary sessions with the aim of “defending equality and solidarity as inalienable principles of the constitutional order and the autonomous state in decision-making.”
The text of these motions is accompanied by a model drafted by the leadership of the Popular Party and includes 11 points. Among them, the urgent convocation of the Conference of Presidents, as well as the Council of Fiscal and Financial Policy and the National Commission of Local Administration (CNAL) is requested to “promote a reform of the local financing system with regional funding.”
The ultimate goal is to “paralyze all progress towards tax independence requested by separatism and demand guarantees that no Community of the current common regime system leaves it and that the Tax Agency is not fragmented.”
The PP also calls, in the meantime, for an increase in the monetary amount of the current regional financing system. The idea is to create a transitional fund that would compensate for the underfunding of some autonomies, guarantee the management of European Recovery Funds who reaches the municipal councils or quickly has 18 billion funds New generation which – according to the PP – the government has not yet executed.
Elías Bendodo (left) with the president of the Castilla-La Mancha party, Paco Núñez.
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So, the Popular Party open the spectrum of a battle, until now, concentrated by the government on the reform of the regional financing model, born from the agreement in Catalonia. Not only in terms of themes, but also in terms of geographical scope.
The popular want to take the debate beyond the Congress or the regional level, as the majority of the presidents of the Communities governed by the PP have already done, and take it to each territory, close to the citizen in local politics.
Motions presented in consistories would not have immediate effect, but they would transfer this effect pressure on the government.
A State Pact
“The collection of missions already assumed by the President of the Government to ensure his continuity in Moncloa has caused an unprecedented deterioration in the health of our rule of law“, said Bendodo during the presentation of this initiative.
According to him, “the ultimate goal of the independence movement is to obtain financial control, what is called “box key”to continue promoting the challenge of process thanks to new mechanisms”.
The PP criticises the fact that the agreement between the PSC and the ERC violates the constitutional principle of equality and territorial solidarity, which is why it is trying to align all its state, regional and local bodies in the same direction.
He also regrets that Vox did not support an initiative presented by the PP in Congress against the Catalan financing model and asks the PSOE to join a “state pact” against the fragmentation of our country.”
