“With a spirit of collaboration, but with low expectations“. This is what the president of the Junta de Andalucía will participate in, Juanma Morenoat the bilateral meeting with his government counterpart, Pedro Sanchezin Moncloa. Finally, she will be received this Friday at 4:00 p.m. and not in the morning as initially planned.
There are several issues that Moreno wants to address with Sánchez with a “willingness for dialogue”, but above all he will demand “all the unpaid debts that the Government of Spain has with Andalusia”, as reported by the Minister of Economy and Finance and government spokesman before the Council. Caroline Spainafter the Government Council.
However, will not directly request the temporary compensation fund at this meeting which has been demanded on numerous occasions to make Andalusia equal to the rest of the communities in terms of financing.
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For two reasons. First because concerns other communities such as Castilla-La Mancha, Valencia or Murcia, and considers that it is more appropriate to address it in another type of forum, such as the Conference of Presidents of the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council.
And secondly because the situation has changed, after the agreement with the ERC. The Andalusian Government considers that currentlyicho leveling background would not resolve the new grievance that Andalusia would suffer if the Catalan quota were approved: “We have already requested it, as well as the 1,500 million that we lack each year, but With the new situation, this would be neither sufficient nor fair.“.
So they will ask, in another forum, that the amount be updated. A year ago, Moreno asked for this fund to recover the 15 billion that the community had lost so far with the current regional financing system.
Therefore, Juanma Moreno will listen to the proposal of the Spanish government, but nothing will be signed that affects all the autonomous communities, said the spokesman of the Andalusian government.
“No more grievances”
But the list of “grievances” is longerThe Andalusian president will also demand that the investments of the General State Budgets (PGE) that Andalusia receives are proportionate to its demographic weight and that they are executed.
With the data in hand, the advisor pointed out that during the year In 2021, only 22% of investments were madeand in the first six months of 2022, according to the latest official data available, only 15% of what was planned was carried out in Andalusia while in Catalonia it reached 66%.
Moreno will also insist on a more appropriate distribution of Covid funds, wallet cards for Andalusians, the increase in MIR places or the carrying out of hydraulic works.
Tour with the bands
Juanma Moreno announced this morning that she would meet next Monday with the spokespersons of the parliamentary groups to inform them first-hand, but she would also ask them to be aware of the situation and contribute”proposals, commitment and support to the demands and demands of justice for Andalusia.”
“Within the Andalusian Government we act with maximum transparency and dialogueand we understand that a matter of such importance must be known to all parliamentary spokespeople,” the spokesman said.
On the other hand, during the same press conference, Carolina España announced that the Andalusian Government would study the possibility of introducing a tax reduction facing the next budgetary exercise of 2025 specifically aimed at facilitate access to housing.
Likewise, he justified the six tax cuts made by the Andalusian Executive. According to him, these have allowed generating greater economic activity, a greater number of tax filers, up to almost 600,000 more, and 14 billion euros more in collection over these five years.
