The Junts condition that the autonomous communities can have a third of the total deficit limit, if the government wants their “yes” on the path to stability, this would take away about 12 billion euros of spending capacity from the general administration of the State that would pass into the hands of the autonomies, according to the Foundation for Applied Economic Studies (Fedea).
In the statements to Europe PressThe director of Fedea, Ángel de la Fuente, explained that the “counter-proposal” of Junts The local authority spending margin increases to 0.8%Therefore, the Central Administration and Social Security should share the remaining 1.7%.
For the government, what Junts has proposed goes too far, but it has shown itself willing to reach an agreement with the pro-independence party that will allow it to advance on the path to stability, which it withdrew from consideration in Congress due to lack of support.
The Executive of Pedro Sánchez presented to Congress a spending ceiling of 199.171 million for 2025 and a deficit forecast of 2.5%, with the Central Administration assuming the majority, 2.2%, above 0.2% of Social Security and 0.1% granted to autonomous communities.
Junts maintains that of the 40 billion euros of expenditure, the Government will keep almost 90%, or more than 35 billion euros. “And what happens to Catalonia?” asked its spokesperson in Congress, Miriam Nogueras, at the beginning of the month, for whom the Government is “lying” when it claims that its proposal benefits all communities.
From the Fountain encrypted “between 12 and 13 billion euros more” than what the autonomies could spend via the deficit if the government accepts what has been proposed by the party of the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont.
On this subject, the different territorial federations of the PSOE have avoided commenting for the moment and refer to the position of the government and the negotiations that remain open with Junts to approve the path to stability, a preliminary step to the negotiation of the general budgets of the State.
