“Permanent mistreatment” since 2009 in the Region of Murcia. This is how the president of the Murcian government, the “popular”, transmitted Fernando Lopez Mirasthe unease of its autonomous community to the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez.
During his meeting in La Moncloa, López Miras demanded that the head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, launch a transitional fund for underfinanced communities, including the Region, while the regional financing model is reformed, in At the same time he reaffirmed his criticism of the economic agreement for Catalonia. This was revealed by the Murcian president during the press conference following the bilateral meeting, during which he devoted a large part of his dialogue to talking about regional financing.
In this context, López Miras regretted that Murcia is the most underfunded community since 2009This is why he demanded that Sánchez begin to distribute these resources among all regions while the financing model was reformed. “Since 2009, in the Region of Murcia, there has been permanent damage, mistreatment and inequality, which must be put to an end now,” said the “popular” baron. “Each Murcian receives almost 1,000 euros less than citizens of the best-financed Communities,” he added.
Transitional fund of more than 2.3 billion for Murcia
As detailed, this transitional fund for the entire legislature would be quantified at 2.340 million euros to level Murcia with the average of the state as a whole in terms of financing, although it estimates that the body responsible for dealing with this issue is the Tax and Financial Policy. Advice .
As did all the regional presidents of the PP, López Miras also demanded from Sánchez that the reform of the Autonomous financing must be approached multilaterallywhich, according to the Murcian president, was guaranteed by Sánchez, who chose to address the renewal of the model within the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council.
According to López Miras, Sánchez also shared the need to face the renewal of the regional funding model.
Debt forgiveness
When asked if he would accept debt cancellation like the Sánchez government is offering to communities, López Miras believes that this deficit reduction can be solved but at the negotiating table to reform the regional financing model.
However, López Miras believes that debt cancellation “is not the solution to underfinancing.” In fact, he assured that a large part of the debt is attributable to this lower level of resources on the part of Murcia.
“We can agree to cancel the debt and the next day we will continue with fewer resources than the rest of the Spaniards,” said López Miras.
