The strong tension expected at the meeting of the Council of Fiscal and Financial Policy (CPFF) that this Friday brings together the Treasury and the autonomous communities has moved up several hours and threatens to completely disrupt the plans and schedule managed by the Government. Early Thursday afternoon, Madrid announced that it will not attend the meeting where the new model of regional financing designed by the Government was expected to be approved and which is rejected by the vast majority of the territories ―all except Catalonia and the Canary Islands―. The community led by Isabel Díaz Ayuso also called on the rest of the PP autonomous communities, with the aim that they also boycott the Treasury and sabotage a meeting that, without the necessary attendance, would be doomed to failure.
The Internal Regime Regulation of the Council of Fiscal and Financial Policy of the Autonomous Communities, published in the Official State Gazette (BOE), establishes that, “for the valid constitution of the Council, the attendance of at least half of its members is necessary.”
Madrid, according to sources from the regional Government, has shown its position within the internal meetings it has held in recent days with the national leadership of the Popular Party and the rest of the Economy and Treasury ministers of the PP. And it has emphasized that the only way for the new model not to be implemented in the CPFF is that there is no quorum at the meeting. “The absence of all the autonomous communities governed by the PP would mean the paralysis of this breach of equality of all Spaniards and the whitewashing of the economic and political corruption of the managers of the Generalitat of Catalonia in recent decades,” they add.
The Ministry of Treasury has accelerated in recent weeks the reform of the regional financing system with the aim that the proposal reaches the Council of Fiscal and Financial Policy (CPFF) this Friday, after the procedures that were planned were postponed in summer, when the communities governed by the PP asked for more time to study the technical issues of the plan.
All this, despite the rejection that the plan arouses among practically all the communities, both those governed by the PP and Castilla-La Mancha and Asturias, with socialist presidents (the Basque Country and Navarre, with their own tax systems, are excluded from the equation).
Only Catalonia sees it favorably, precisely the territory whose agreement between the Government and ERC served as the starting point to design the reform. In recent weeks, the Canary Islands also joined the bandwagon, after obtaining several technical concessions from the Treasury. The Executive can push the proposal forward in the coordination body between the State and the autonomous communities, since it is enough for one of them, in addition to the Treasury, to vote in favor. However, according to the regulations, it is necessary that at least half of the territories attend the meeting.
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