The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, lashed out this Monday against the “deeply unfair” and “imposed” financing model by the Government, with which Catalonia “is going to take 22% of the entire system” while “the regions can no longer bear” a situation of underfunding.
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The president of the regional government introduced the president of Ifema, José Vicente de los Mozos, at the informative breakfast “The economic impact of Formula 1 in Madrid” with a speech in which she criticized the autonomous financing proposal put forward by the Government since, in her words, it was organized when Spain is “out of the game.”
Ayuso reproached the Government for sending its proposals for the new financing system “on Friday afternoon, at 40 degrees” so that “such an embarrassment” is voted on at the doorstep of the August holidays, at the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council on July 29, which she called a “betrayal.”
“Catalonia does have resources for embassies”
“We do not have General State Budgets, but they know how to sell that this is good for everyone. It is obvious that this is a mockery and that, once again, communities like Valencia, Murcia or the Canary Islands will continue to be underfunded,” Ayuso said, warning that “the regions can no longer bear it.”
In the case of the Community of Madrid, the president warned that the region “keeps growing” in population and providing its public services to the rest of the country while “Catalonia does have resources for embassies” and for expenses that “we do not have in Madrid.”
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For Ayuso, it is a “deeply illegal” but also deeply “imposed” situation since, with this new financing proposal, “Catalonia is going to take 22% of the entire system when it is the third richest region in the country,” she maintained.
In the previous draft, the contribution for Catalonia was 4.686 billion euros, the president specified, compared to 2.555 billion for Madrid when “we are the two homogeneous economies.”
“We only find more grievances, more traps in our draft, and I hope that the communities know how to speak as it deserves this July 29,” she trusted in an intervention in which she recalled that eight out of every ten euros collected in Madrid “go directly” to the General State Administration.
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