The mayor of Valencia Maria José Catalá will argue with municipal councils that the Council of Europe investigates Spanish government if Catalan quota comes to fruition. Concretely, its objective is to ask the Council of Local and Regional Authorities investigate the Spanish government for violate articles 4.6 and 9.6 of the Charter of Local Self-Governmentwhich requires that companies be consulted in a timely and appropriate manner on all matters that affect them. Furthermore, María José Catalá also announced that she would manage the conflict caused by the autonomy and resources of the municipalities. Catalan quota before the Constitutional Court.
It turns out that in addition to being mayor of Valencia, María José Catalá is also spokesperson of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP). Therefore, she is not only in charge of the third largest city in Spain, but also has notable weight in the field of Spanish municipalism. Reason why their advertisements must be taken into account.
The mayor of Valencia described the Catalan quota as “stab municipalism“. And he denounced that neither Sánchez nor his 22 ministers “talk about local financing” when they talk about regional financing: “For the government, municipalism does not exist,” he ruled on this subject.
María José Catalá spoke in this way during the event New Economy Forum who performed this Thursday in Madrid as a speaker. And in which he was presented by the mayor of the Spanish capital, he also popular José Luis Martinez Almeida.
The basis of the question raised by María José Catalá finds its origin in the effect that the Catalan quota will have on the economy of municipalities. And his announcement took place barely 48 hours after the President of the Valencian Government Carlos Mazón attended the meeting organized with Pedro Sánchez this Friday in Moncloa, which has precisely as a backdrop the regional financing system and the quota Catalan.
This Wednesday, Maria José Catalá It was energetic. In fact, she warned that the needs of the inhabitants of Valencia, the municipality where she heads the local government, “are not found in Switzerland”, in reference to the agreements that Pedro Sánchez and his emissaries concluded with the leader of the Junts Carles Puigdemont. : “In Switzerland, we do not talk about the needs of Spanish municipalities. “Only political survival.”
Furthermore, María José Catalá showed her conviction that municipal councils must promote conflict if this Catalan quota materializes: “It is time for Sánchez to tell us what he has planned. But as we already know him, they will understand that I am not going to stay still. Furthermore, he declared that: “We, the mayors, are obliged to stop this“.
In the same sense, Catalá also announced its intention to bring a conflict before the Constitutional Court “for the defense of local autonomy” in order to “challenge” the Catalan quota And to “defend municipal funding”.
