Just an hour after the representatives of the Autonomous Communities of the Popular Party (PP) have begun, the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council in which the Treasury will approve the condom proposal of 83,000 million debt of the debt of the regions, which will assume the State if you get a majority of support from parliamentary groups in Congress.
The counselors of Economy and Finance of the eleven communities that governs that the PP have risen from the table even to vote against, because “we do not believe that it is the way to proceed, that it comes here with approved issues and we are a comparsa . We do not want to continue working like this, ”they have expressed in the halls of the Ministry of Finance, just after leaving. The representative of the Canary Islands, also of the PP but that governs with Canarian coalition, has accompanied the rest of popular.
In the statements prior to the meeting, none of them had advanced the intention of planting Minister María Jesús Montero, although they had spoken of “Teatrillo” and “deception.” “We cannot accept the crumbs of the Pact of Sánchez with the independentistas,” they have proclaimed some of the ‘popular’ advisors after the frightened.
The operation of the Fiscal Policy Council facilitates that the proposal has guaranteed its approval. Hacienda has half of the votes, so you only need one more vote, which will be, at least, that of Catalonia, governed by the PSC and where the initiative of this proposal comes from, included in the covenant between PSOE and ERC for the investiture of President Pedro Sánchez in 2023.
The First Vice President and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, has remained at the meeting of the Fiscal Policy Council with the Minister of Economy and Finance of Castilla-La Mancha, Asturias, and the Minister of Catalonia. He has also remained of ‘listener’ Navarra. Euskadi had not come. These last two communities do not belong to the common financing regime, because they have their own concerts, and the proposal of assumption of debt by the State does not affect them.
Letter from the PP communities: “An arbitrary, discriminatory and politicized decision”
Before leaving the body meeting, the PP communities have delivered a letter to the Minister of Finance. “We express our opposition that the Fiscal Policy Council addresses the mutualization of the autonomous debt, because this decision is raised with the purpose of sustaining a parliamentary majority,” says the letter, which can be consulted below.
“Proof of this is that it was the leader of Esquerra Republicana de Cataluña who announced it unilaterally and previously to the Minister of Finance to translate it to the rest of the communities,” continues the PP letter. “In addition to being an arbitrary, discriminatory decision (since it has not even taken into account territories of Spain such as the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla) and politicized, it should be noted that this organ lacks competences to address an issue that, by its Nature, requires an organic law approved in the General Courts, ”he continues.
This Wednesday morning, in the Congress of Deputies, the vice president has appealed directly to the PP: “They cannot claim more resources for the autonomous communities and vote against the stability objective that gave the territories 4.5 billion more, vote Against the Bank Tax whose collection goes to the communities and gave them 1.5 billion more, and cannot be voted against a condom of 83,000 million euros ”.
The communities of the common regime governed by the PP can reject the “free” proposal in this Fiscal and Financial Policy Council. The complexity of maintaining that opposition increases when the matter goes through the Congress of Deputies, where the Government needs the support of most groups. From the territorial plane, it is passed to the parliamentarian.
In practice, this condonation or debt removal, which comes from the claim of Catalonia and that the Ministry of Finance has extended to “all” the communities, will save approximately between 5,000 and 7,000 million in interest to which the regional administrations face . A cost that will fall on the State as a whole. In other words, they are interests of the debt that cease to weigh in regional budgets and go to the central administration, although it remains “money from all Spaniards.” That is why the First Vice President and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, insists that it is a “generous measure” by the government.
Castilla-La Mancha supports debt remove
Castilla-La Mancha has given the Treasury one of lime and another of sand. The Autonomous Community, of the few governed by the PSOE, has been one of the supports that the Treasury proposal for debt condemnation has counted. Although this region governed by the PSOE wanted to make it clear that it rejects “the cast” of the Banking Tax between the Autonomous Communities, according to the Government in its design with its nationalist partners of Euskadi and Catalunya in Congress.
In the case of the region presided by the socialist Emiliano García-Page, the debt remove amounts to almost 5,000 million euros, about 30% of all the debt of the Autonomous Community. It is the sixth most benefited region according to this calculation among the fifteen of the common financing regime.
At a press conference prior to the Fiscal Policy Council this afternoon at the Ministry’s headquarters, the Minister of Finance and Public Administrations, Juan Alfonso Ruiz Molina, has advanced the position of the region: “This government recognizes what is fine, that It is the foronation, but also recognizes what is wrong, and is to distribute taxes based on the richness of the regions. We look exclusively for the interests of the region and of course we do not make financing a partisan struggle as the Popular Party is doing. ”
Just before entering the Fiscal Policy Council, the Minister of Finance, Public Administrations and Digital Transformation, Juan Alfonso Ruiz Molina, has said that “justice” has been done with Castilla-La Mancha and has indicated that the method used “is a starting point ”to agree on the new financing model.
The distribution of the damage or removes of the debt follows “technical and transparent” criteria [fases 1, 2 y 3, en el primer gráfico de esta información]”In recent years, explained the Minister of Finance on Monday.
In the third phase of adjustment, there is another important key of the Treasury proposal. In their calculations they reward the regions that their regulatory powers in IRPF have worked up. That is, they have demanded a greater fiscal effort to their taxpayers, who have not dropped taxes.
This last adjustment has been stranded to the IRPF that depends on the autonomous communities, but avoids entering other taxes assigned to the communities, such as heritage or successions, that the governments of the PP of the Community of Madrid or Andalusia have used to make tax competence down in recent years.
Precisely, the Second Vice President Yolanda Díaz, was shown on Monday in favor of the Treasury proposal to condemn the debt to the autonomous communities, but asked her government partner to be in exchange for a conditionality: that these governments do not lower the Taxes on wealth, in a clear message to those led by the Popular Party.
“If the law ends approved in the terms we have raised, because it requires a law, there is no conditionality,” said the Minister of Finance on Monday. “This condonation is assumed by the State and there is no consideration that the autonomous communities have to do. I have said it from the first moment: we are generous because we believe in the state of autonomies and we also believe that there was a damage to the autonomous communities in the previous financial crisis that caused an over -indebtedness, ”he reiterated.
Source: www.eldiario.es
