The Government has carried out almost 30 transfers of powers to different autonomous communities since the arrival of Pedro Sánchez to La Moncloa, and Euskadi is the one that has achieved the most, up to 16, well ahead of Catalonia, with four. The Basque Country has added five new transfers in 2024, monopolizing almost 60% of transfers since the motion of censure that elevated the socialist to the Executive in 2018.
The Basque community was precisely the last to close transferssince the President of the Government and the Lehendakari, Imanol Pradales, agreed in November to transfer two more powers to Euskadi: coastal management and cinematography.
Sánchez and Pradales approved a calendar by which four other subjects will be transferred before the end of this year and another twenty in 2025, including Social Security.
Furthermore, this year the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has transferred public order powers in ports and airports to the Ertzaintza of the Basque Country, although he assured that not a single agent will leave and that the Police and Civil Guard will continue to deal with immigration, borders and tax fraud.
Until that announcement, the Basque Country had already assumed penitentiary management, the Minimum Living Income (IMV), Cercanías, road transport or the health benefits of school insurance, the international bibliographic code ISSN or the building of the Maritime District of Ondarroa, among others.
Catalonia, for its part, has obtained the management of the IMV and three transfer extensions prior to the provision of material and economic means for the functioning of the Administration of Justice.
The Government and the Generalitat continue negotiating to materialize other transfers such as that of Rodalies, the scholarship competition or that of public state buildings located in Catalonia.
And a few weeks ago, in the Security Board of Catalonia it was agreed that The Mossos d’Esquadra is responsible for investigating crimes and administrative offenses related to the environment, to the detriment of the Civil Guard.
Imv and coastline, the most common
Navarra is next on the list, having assumed three powers: prison health, the IMV and traffic, which the Supreme Court annulled due to defects, forcing the central and regional executives to modify the transfer to protect it.
It follows the Valencian Community, to which the patrimonial means in matters of nature conservation have been expanded and the patrimonial means in terms of construction.
The Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands have received responsibility for coastal management, although both communities have expressed their anger with the central government, considering that the transfer has been incomplete.
For its part, The Xunta and the central Government have closed an agreement a few weeks ago to transfer the responsibility for managing the coastline to Galicia. Once it is formalized, a step that is expected to be imminent, this will become the first transfer that the community has received since 2008.
For the Community of Madrid has materialized an extension of a previous transferthe transfer of means in health care.
And there are ten regions that have not achieved any competition since this Executive was launched, although some have achieved the transfer of taxes such as waste.
More than 2,000 transfers
The figures are extracted from data published by the Ministry of Territorial Policy, compiled by Europa Press, which details that Between 1978 and 2024 there have been a total of 2,017 transfers to autonomous communities and cities.
Catalonia heads the historical list with 192 transfers, followed by Andalusia (155), Galicia (155), Valencian Community (134), Canary Islands (128), Basque Country (120), Castilla y León (116), Balearic Islands (113), Aragón (112), Murcia (111), Cantabria (106), Asturias (105), Extremadura (99), Madrid (96), Castilla-La Mancha (93), La Rioja (76) and Navarra (62). Regarding the autonomous cities, Melilla has assumed 24 and Ceuta, 21.
Between 2015 and 2017, with the ‘popular’ Mariano Rajoy in Moncloa, there was no transfer to communities, and they were resumed with the arrival of Sánchez, with two to the Basque Country in his first months in office.
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