Montero rows in the contradictions of the PP on the debt removal to communities | Spain

The First Vice President and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Monterohas squeezed on Thursday the contradiction that Alberto Núñez Feijóo and their barons will have to face, which preside over 11 communities in addition to Ceuta and Melilla and co -government in the Canary Islands: the autonomies in which the popular govern 35 million Spaniards are the most benefited of the debt for the condonation of debt to which the government committed to ERC for Catalonia Common regime (all except Euskadi and Navarra). “I want to remember that 60,000 of the 83,000 million to condemn, Seven of each of ten euros would be to autonomous communities that are currently governed by the PP. Does the debt remove harm the Valencians, the Andalusians, the Galicians and the Murcians? They have no reason to oppose, ”said the number two of the Government and the PSOE, raising all the pressure to Genoa in the Senate Finance Commission.

The Moncloa is convinced that, once it is approved by Organic Law, something that believes guaranteed since the Government believes to have the PLACET of JUNTS, the regional presidents of the PP will request its application, which is not automatic and requires its express request. « It is an unprecedented, brave and generous measure (…) they will sign the agreements. We have already seen it before, because they know it is better than they had. If not, they will be very hard in the territories, » Montero predicted. Andalusia – the most populous community – is the one that is offered more margin of debt forcononation in absolute terms (18,791 million), followed by Catalonia (17,104) and the Valencian Community (11.210). The vice president stressed that the condonation will also benefit the territories that did not accept the Autonomous Liquidity Fund (Fla) and were financed on their own in the markets, as Madrid did, the fourth that accumulates more debt (8,644 million).

The popular senator José Manuel Barreiro ignored the contradictions in his party that the vice president reminded him of his appearance and based his strategy on which the debt will continue to exist no matter how much the State assumes it and that, in practice, the citizens would continue to pay it. « The foronation is like a chemical process that causes the debt to evaporate and disappear. What they do is mutualize the debt and is due to a poor management of the independentistas in Catalonia who now want us to pay among all, » he wielded before accusing the Executive of “using the money of the Spaniards to buy time in the Moncloa and in the government of Catalonia”, two administrations in which both Pedro Sánche They depend on Esquerra. Surprised, Montero denied the magical formula attributed to him by the PP: “How will the debt evaporate if the agreement is called the assumption of the debt by the State? The debt is left by the State! It is that the Valencian Community cannot go out to the markets due to the weight of the debt in its credit assessment, just as it happens to Catalonia or Murcia. Others are starting to leave. It is good for its regional presidents, so why they oppose? ”, He objected. « When you have no arguments, go around like a Nonoline (Rouleta, in Andalusia) You already notice that you cannot defend the indefensible, ”said the first vice president of the Government.

The government interprets The proposal that the 14 PP counselors made Montero at the last meeting of the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council (CPFF), At the end of February, just when it was time to discuss the debt removal, as a clear sample of the problems that its territorial leaders have to justify the strategy that Feijóo has ordered them. « It was because they could not explain it, because (the position of the PP) does not have common sense and has no rationality, » reiterated the Treasury head. The proof that the PP is in a maze is that Their communities have resisted in the weeks to confirm whether they will ask for the removal or give up it. The amount of maximum debt that the State could assume for each community will be 50% at a maximum of December 31, 2023, according to Montero. « We are facing his blackmail to his minority. « You are Trump fans and your neoliberal and ultra -right policy, but today you are silent, we should know your opinion of the tariffs, or will they continue to browse the contradiction? » Montero blamed you.

ERC warning: « Our patience can be exhausted »

The most delicate moment for Montero was produced by competition between Junts and Esquerra in his eternal pulse for hegemony among the independence electorate. The intervention of the Neoconvergente Senator Maria Teresa Pallarès, who wanted to make it clear that her formation « has historically requested debt forgiveness » was softer than that of the Republican senator Joan Josep Queralt. « ERC has put conditions that are being negotiated very slowly, many times we have the feeling of (alone) very good words and on top we have to pay the coffee of the meetings. I tell you that the patience, such as the sand of the watches, can be exhausted. Do not pull too much of the rubber, the elasticity has a limit … We have signed some pacts that we have that we believe are good and we have to justify before our voters, » said the senator. The Junts representative criticized that in the first three months of the year there have only been 12 days without incidents in Rodalies: « Our people walk along the ways to go to work, the worst thing is that they want to make us believe that Catalonia is experiencing a new normality. »

The lack of agreement between the two great parties was repeated in a puzzle that has been dragged since 2014: the renewal of the regional financing system. If the governments of Mariano Rajoy and Pedro Sánchez coincide something, they have not been able to update it in large part by the different interests of the communities, even if they are the same political sign. Aware that the solution demands an agreement between the two great parties, Montero set out to the PP: « It is we who have to build that design and those who have to have the ability to agree on the legitimate discrepancies or differences, which each of the regional presidents can have when defending their position. » « The point is that we continue without resolving that what Andalusia defends is not the same as Galicia, Madrid, the Valencian Community or Murcia and the Popular Party governs in all of them, » added a immediate act, highlighting the lack of a unique position in the rows of the PP. Just the same as the legislature prior to the PSOE happened, when he ruled in a dozen communities and separated criteria such as depopulation, the percentage of elderly inhabitants, their dispersion in the territory or the floating population, in the case of the most tourist autonomies. « There is no standard community, they all have their singularities and it is not possible for the common proposal to be a suit of one of them, » Montero warned.