Oriol Junqueras warns the Minister of Finance: “Without the principle of ordinality, there is no agreement on financing”. In a colloquium held at the headquarters of the College of Economists of Catalonia, the leader of ERC threw this dart at Maria Jesus Monteroafter sources from his ministry leaked that the express recognition of the principle of ordinality could be left out of the proposal to reform regional financing that will be addressed in the next Fiscal and Financial Policy Council, not yet convened.
Both the Government and the different autonomies sit in this forum, represented by their respective economic advisors. In principle, the next meeting should serve to approve the deficit path, but it is expected that the Executive will show the guidelines of the new regional financing.
The independence leader warned the Government that it must adhere to the agreements reached for both the investiture of Pedro Sánchez and Salvador Illa, and that they include the inclusion of the principle of ordinality in the new financing scheme. For Junqueras, this principle translates into “establishing less difference between what we contribute and what we receive.” [los ciudadanos de Cataluña]”.
Three conditions
Likewise, Junqueras added two other conditions: calculation of the Catalan population in an adjusted way (that is, updated) and the transfer of regulatory powers to the Majority. Not in vain, ERC has registered in the Congress of Deputies a bill to transfer the comprehensive management of personal income tax to the autonomous administration; This initiative still does not have a debate date in the Lower House. The leader assured that they will defend like “wild animals” this triad of conditions, in his opinion essential for any review of the financing system for Catalonia.
“Experience teaches us that a figure without the rest of the points of the model is of no use. The 3.8 billion euros that were agreed upon were melted down a few months later because the model was not well done,” he recalled in reference to the last pact on financing between the Generalitat and the State.
The agreement, for now “far away”
“We are not here to reach an agreement, but to reach a good agreement,” he reiterated. In fact, the former vice president of Govern He acknowledged that, today, this agreement “is far” from being achieved.
For all these reasons, the politician assured that if Montero convenes a Fiscal and Financial Policy Council without having first closed the negotiation with ERC, he will meet with the Republicans “in the parliamentary process in Congress in five or six months.”
“If someone wants to impose a certain model on us without fulfilling what should be fulfilled, they should know that they will encounter us in the process in Congress. It will be of no use to them to try to breach the agreements,” he said, in addition to remembering that the votes of his party are essential for any measure, including the approval of the general budgets of the State.
