The Junta of Andalusia will try to get the central Government to "withdraw" the new model of regional financing that has been proposed and that will be debated in the next Council of Fiscal and Financial Policy (CPFF), scheduled for the first week of September.
Thus indicated the third vice president of the Junta and counselor of Economy, Finance, and European Funds, Carolina España, in an interview with Europa Press, where she reiterated that the Andalusian Executive will demand that the Government "withdraw" the financing proposal agreed with the Catalan independence movement of ERC and that "nobody wants it," "neither communities of the PP nor of the PSOE."
The vice president emphasized that the proposal of the central Executive represents, in her opinion, an attack on equality among Spaniards, as it implies "privileges for some territories, for independence, and grievances and punishments for Andalusia."
In this line, she criticized that "whenever the socialists take a step in financing, they punish and mistreat Andalusia," and warned that, just like the current system, the new model that the Government has put on the table after the agreement with ERC "leaves Andalusia below the average again."
According to her, the Andalusian community will receive "143 euros less per citizen than the average and 389 euros less than a citizen of Catalonia."
España has also accused the central Government of trying to "buy the support of the Catalan independence movement in the upcoming votes in the Congress of Deputies, whether for the budgets or for any other issue," with "the money of all Spaniards," and warned that "buying political wills with the money of all Spaniards is also a form of corruption."
She stressed that the proposed model "is only wanted by the Catalan independence movement and it seems that now also by Coalición Canaria," and defended that regional financing cannot become a "looting of Spanish coffers" nor a competition to see "who takes more."
"We are claiming what is due to us. Andalusia is not asking for alms, but for equality, justice, and what is due to us, which is certainly not to be below the average, as we have been since 2009," concluded the counselor.