VOX proposes a “broad and national vision” in terms of regional financing in which all economic resources belong to the nation.
This is the general premise of the financing model on which this political formation from Aragon is betting to avoid inequalities between autonomous communities and that certain territories benefit from favorable treatment compared to others.
The political party recognized its desire to join “in good faith” in the special study commission on the regional financing system, although it chose to ppresent an alternative to the text under debate because “it was not recoverable, even less with the proposed amendments”, according to Fermín Civiac, MP and representative of VOX on the special study commission on the regional financing system.
In this alternative text, the formation indicates that in Aragon, as in other Spanish communities, there was a financial insufficiency due to injustices in the financing of autonomy, aggravated by poor management which gave rise to clientelist networks which, in turn, led to an increase in the cost of utilities. He also denounced the “failure” of the autonomous system.
In this sense, he explained that a model is advocated in which “all economic resources are the property of the nation, of all Spaniards”. One of the reasons he leaned into it is that it takes getting used to equally finance all public services in Spain. He therefore appealed to article 138.2 of the Spanish Constitution which states that “differences in autonomy statuses cannot imply economic or social privileges”.
Since the training, it has been recommended that the State recovers skills in education, health, security and justiceespecially since there is not a sufficient majority to reform the Spanish Constitution and redefine the structure of the State.
Regarding the rest of the services, VOX offers an “equivalent” provision of these services throughout Spain and that the regional financing system finances it. “What we want is to make a blank slate with this system; “We must move towards a truly national system which ensures the financing of equivalent public services throughout Spain”, in addition to guaranteeing equality for Spaniards, underlines Civiac.
“We fear that if all regions aspire to a bigger pie, the only solution will ultimately be to make it bigger. That is to say, to increase taxes, to increase the tax effort, which is what we “We must ensure that this situation does not consolidate,” said Civiac, who declared that it was necessary to put an end to “these privileged systems of the Basque concert, of the Navarrese agreement, quotas and of course those who come.”
