The Valencian Community It is one of the autonomies that has been demanding more strongly claiming the reform of the regional financing system, expired a decade ago and condemning the lower resources per inhabitant with respect to the majority of CCAA. One of the issues that will be addressed in the next Fiscal and Financial Policy Council on February 26although an agreement seems difficult,
Although the proposal of the Ministry of Finance of María Jesús Montero in theory focuses on the population as the basis for the new cast, the truth is that The criteria for adjusting it to territorial peculiarities generate the rejection of the Valencian government of the popular Carlos Mazón, who considers that It does not guarantee that the Valencian Community does not follow the tail and even maintains its per capita infinance that suffers since the beginning of the century.
In the Permanent Technical Committee prior to the meeting of the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council (CPFF), which has been held today, the Valencian representatives have defended again that The basic criterion for the allocation of resources must be the population and insist that the central government must contribute more resources from the State to the system.
He Quid of the matter is in what criteria and how they apply For the calculation of the adjusted population, that is, to what extent other factors may vary that base based on the situation of each region. Traditionally, CCAA with fewer population has defended to take into account factors such as the dispersion of the population or aging, due to their effect on public spending.
For the high positions of the Ministry of Finance, the problem is that with the variables collected in the Ministry’s proposal differences of spending needs per inhabitant of up to sixteen percentage points are generatedwhich are superior to the current system which has caused Valencian infinance. According to the calculation of the Valencian technicians, the current one is in differences in eleven points needs. That is, as applied they could expand the gap between them more.
The Consell conclusion is that not the Montero document does not guarantee the Valencian Community to improve its current situation compared to the rest of autonomies. “The proposal that the Government has put on the table does not benefit the Valencian Community at all, because it is so open that, depending on how it closes, it can further enlarge the unjustifiable current differences and further sink the Valencian Community “, In the words of Eusebio Monzó.
A rejection that was already evident in the allegations sent to the Ministry of Finance in January 2022 in response to the first proposal on the new methodology of calculation of the adjusted population. According to the position of Valencian experts, taking as reference the adjusted population based on demographic and corrective variables “not very transparent and without technical justification” generates significant differences of financing per inhabitant between unjustified communities. For the Generalitat, these differences “should not be above 5% whatever the variables used and the assigned weights.”
The other fronts
It is not the only obstacle. The Valencian delegation has urged the Ministry of Finance to propose a complete scheme of how the system would be as a whole to reactivate the reform. This information is basic to know if the current secondary funds that “distort” the initial distribution of the guarantee fund in the joint photo of the system are maintained.
The regional secretary of the Treasury also urged to be included immediately a leveling fund that equals the unreasonable regions of average And in the Prayo section he urged the Ministry of Finance to finance the excess deficit of 2024 through the extraordinary flas and immediately update the deliveries on account of the financing system, to prevent both situations from continuing to generate treasury tensions precisely when the Generalitat faces the effort of reconstruction after the October floods.
The case of Catalonia
In addition, the Valencian Government of the PP continues to distrust the agreements for Catalonia. “We cannot forget that all this technical debate makes no sense while the Minister of Finance does not clarify how the financing to the letter that is willing to grant Catalonia fits with the maintenance of the principles of equality and solidarity that must prevail in the system “Monzó criticized.
“Because as much as they want to confuse, the system they propose cannot be unique and solidarity at the same time, it cannot be multilateral and bilateral and, above all, it cannot be that it gives more resources to all autonomous communities when We are talking about is the exit of Catalonia of the common regime, “he insisted.
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