Fernando López Miras will go to the Moncloa Palace this Friday with calculator in hand. The SPANISH was able to know that The head of the Executive of the Region of Murcia will ask the President of the Government for 2.340 million eurosPedro Sánchez, as a transit fund, to compensate for the underfinancing that the Murcian community historically suffers within the regional financing system.
The popular López Miras will meet Sánchez on his birthday, six years after his last audience with the President of the Government which took place on September 18, 2018. FThe head of the Executive of Murcia, taking into account the agreement that Moncloa has concluded with Catalonia grant a single financing The Generalitat plans to request compensation from its community, arguing an objective fact: it is one of the most poorly financed territories year after year.
This is what the data shows Report from the Autonomous Communities of the Public Law Observatory of Barcelona: The Region of Murcia received an average of 2,779.63 euros per person, adjusted to the regional financing system, the lowest amount in the entire country by the autonomous communities in the 2021 financial year.
From the San Esteban Palace they confirm that Fernando López Miras will ask the president of the central government for a “transitional fund of 2,340 million euros for the Region of Murcia, the least well funded community in Spain“.
The aforementioned source from San Esteban specifies that the head of the Regional Executive will thus justify his request during the reception planned at the Moncloa Palace, this Friday, October 4, a date which coincides with the birthday of López Miras: “The transitional fund is an urgent tool to be applied while the necessary renewal of the regional financing system takes place, with the aim that communities like the Region of Murcia do not continue to be harmed and accumulate debts due to underfinancing.
Conference of Presidents
In fact, the Murcian leaderor will he demand that Sánchez reform the regional financing system, listening to all communities autonomous within the Conference of Presidents. But the package of economic measures that López Miras will request during his hearing at Moncloa does not stop there, since he will also request an operation to refinance his internal debt: 13.235 million euros, according to data published by the Bank of Spain in the second quarter of 2024.
The debt of the Region of Murcia already represents a 32.2% of its Gross Domestic Productaccording to statistics from the Bank of Spain. Legislature after legislature, successive regional governments led by the PP have always blamed the regional financing system for one of the reasons for the deficit of the regional funds, which already amounts to 13.235 million. Thus, this source from San Esteban indicates that López Miras will ask for “additional measures”, to compensate for the fact that in 2022: his community received 900 euros less than the best financed territory.
“Other additional measures that we are requesting as part of this reform of the pay-as-you-go system are the extraordinary concession of a short-term debt refinancing operation, for an amount of at least 550 million eurosand the financing of debt interest through the Autonomous Liquidity Fund (FLA).”
Once again, López Miras’ argument with Sánchez will not only be moral, taking into account the bilateral agreements on tax matters that the Spanish government has on the table with the Generalitat of Catalonia, but it will also reveal figures like these- there they treat in the Palais Saint-Étienne:
“If the financing of the Region of Murcia was equal to that of the best financed, we would have received 1.374 million euros more in 2022to provide fundamental public services. Estimates for 2023 for the Region of Murcia indicate that this gap would continue to widen and that we would receive 985 euros less per capita than the best funded region.
