The former deputy of Teruel exists, Tomas Guitartereturned to Congress yesterday, although this time he had to limit himself to speaking to the media on the street, in front of the Lions’ Gate, along with several colleagues from other platforms and parties of the so-called “Empty Spain”, such as Soria Already! or Cuenca Now. His message was very harsh against Pedro Sánchez and his government, to whom he lent his voice in January 2020 during the investiture session, essential then for Sánchez to remain president, since he did not have a single yes left to achieve this.
Outraged by the recent statements of the government spokesperson, Pilar Alegriaas well as the spokespersons of the Executive and the Socialist parliamentary group, Esther Peña and Patxi Lopezin which they equate the economic agreement for Catalonia with the aid agreed during the last legislature for these three territories, among the most depopulated in the country, guitar burst. “What has been attempted here is a huge hoax, precisely because of those who have recently been heavily criticized for ‘fake news’, hoaxes and the lack of veracity of information. Well, it is a huge hoax, a huge ‘fake'”, the parliamentarian of the Lower House deplored until last year. Guitarte furthered his argument by emphasizing that the position of the socialists is wrong, since what their spokesmen have supported, he deplored, “as if our territories benefited from special treatment, which is not the case”, he said. And he went further: “It is miserable, I do not know how to describe it, it is petty to try to play with the crust that is given to the poor to try to justify the sumptuous food that is going to be given to the rich”.
Guitarte broke down the data on the aid received by these three provinces from Aragon, Castile-La Mancha and Castile and Leon deny that this could be comparable to what Catalonia would receive, which if the literal agreement with the independentists were achieved, would receive 100% of the taxes, with a system similar to the special tax regimes of the Basque Country and Navarre, the latter are reinforced in the Constitution on the basis of the alleged historical rights of the provincial territories. “What is applied in these three provinces is a bonus to the social security contributions of companies to help their operation, but it is a bonus that, despite the fact that it was obtained with great effort – precisely during the Teruel exists in Congress– these are insignificant amounts,” which he estimates at “eighteen euros per month for each worker he hires.” Amounts that he compared to the 22 billion euros per year that Catalonia could receive with this possible Catalan quota, according to FEDEA’s calculations. “Catalonia will receive in a year what the three provinces [Teruel, Soria y Cuenca] “It would take a thousand years to receive them,” he summed up graphically.
For Guitarte, the path now traced by the Government is radically different from that of the last legislature. “While in the last legislature we defended that the structural problem of an emptied Spain had to be resolved once and for all, here what is going to be done is the opposite, favoring the rich at the expense of the poor“.
The spokespersons of Soria Ya! expressed themselves in the same sense: Angel Cenaand from Cuenca Now, David Cardeñosawho called the government’s comments “insulting,” “malicious” and even the result of “dormant ignorance.”
Guitarte, for his part, did not miss the opportunity to refer to the Aragonese condition of Pilar Alegriaoriginally from Zaragoza, where he aspired to be mayor in the 2019 municipal elections, and who could also succeed Javier Lambán as leader of the Aragonese socialists in the near future. According to him, what a person from this community incurs by comparing a Catalan quota with aid to a heavily depopulated regionalso supported by Brussels, only demonstrate that “blind obedience and partisan sectarianism prevail over verifiable evidence. We all know that it is not the same and yet they resort to this hoax,” he reiterated.
