White glove debate on regional financing in the Mieres House of Culture. The professor of Public Finance of the University of Oviedo/Uviéu Javier Suárez Pandiello and the former secretary of CCOO of Catalonia Joan Coscubiela This Thursday were the guests of the event organized by Friends of Mieres with the title “Singularities and regional financing: the proposal of Catalonia”and which comes just at a time of intense debate within the PSOE about the reform of regional financing, pending review for a decade.
Pandiello described the agreement reached by the PSC and CKD to achieve “singular financing”, as a covert way of reaching a “fiscal agreement”, “not like the Basque one, but a fiscal agreement”, in which Catalonia would collect all taxes, and subsequently pay the State a fee solidarity and another for services that are not managed by autonomy, such as the Army. Coscubiela, on the other hand, de-dramatized the scope of an agreement that he described as “grandiose” and more designed for “internal consumption of the ERC bases”, which had to go through the ordeal of voting for Salvador Illa and thus avoid an electoral repetition that could have been disastrous for Esquerra. The unionist and former deputy of Initiative for Catalonia and Catalunya Yes That is Pot considered it impossible to talk about a Catalan concert, since “it is not constitutionally or politically viable.”
For Suárez Pandiello, the PSC has assumed the “nationalist and victimist rhetoric”, although he also pointed out that there is no political majority to establish that “fiscal agreement” that the professor considers ERC and the Catalan socialists have agreed upon. According to the economist, “if Catalonia got a concert, Madrid would be the next community to request it, and the State would run out of funds to collect and redistribute.”
Although both experts pointed out that the PSC-ERC pact will serve above all as a spur to open the debate on regional financing, frozen first by the 2008 crisis and then by the processIn the opinion of Suárez Pandiello “the Basque and Navarrese anomaly should not be generalized, but rather corrected.”
Both specialists agreed in pointing out that talking about federalism means almost nothing, since there are as many federalisms as there are federal countries, which Asturias is not poorly financed and that we are on the verge of a new debate on regional financing, in which the Principality should ensure that its current situation is maintained.
Coscubiela also made a plea so that the left does not allow itself to be dragged into a confrontation of territories and lose the banner of a progressive tax reform: “The right has convinced us that the inequalities in Spain are territorial and not social.”
The heads-up was conducted by the economist Dario Diazpresident of Friends of Mieresand brought together a good number of attendees, including the mayor of Mieres Manuel Ángel Álvarezhis predecessor Luis María García Garcíathe former advisor of Hacienda Ana Cárcabathe leader of CCCO Ursula Szalataor the union veterans Alberto Rubio and Antonio González Hevia.
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