The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has described the financing system proposal put forward by the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, as “a betrayal and a trap aimed solely at treating Catalonia as a nation and buying support.”
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During her speech at the informational meeting organized by Nueva Economía Fórum in Madrid, Ayuso criticized that the proposal arrived last Friday “in the afternoon and with Spain at 40 degrees” to force the vote on “such an embarrassment on the eve of the August holidays, at the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council on July 29.”
The regional president criticized the timing of the call and added that it is similar to what happened with the general elections, so that it is done “in a situation of a Spain that is out of play.” “I call that betrayal and being a trickster,” she asserted.
The leader of the Madrid government emphasized that it is a proposal in which “we are talking about the money of all Spaniards because we are talking about the financing of public services for everyone, about a future that must be discussed by all, and also about the construction of what has never existed and, therefore, the breaking of our rule of law and our country.”
Catalonia
For this reason, she considers that the regions “cannot take it anymore” and added that, certainly, “the Community of Madrid cannot,” because we keep growing in population.”
Ayuso reiterated that “Catalonia has resources for embassies, for salaries, and for expenses that we do not have in Madrid” and said that it also includes financing “to buy the elections of the Catalan president, who already speaks openly of a nation and socialism talks about the Catalan nation.”
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In this regard, she pointed out that, “besides being profoundly illegal, it is also profoundly unfair” because with this new proposal “Catalonia is going to take 22% of the entire financing system when it is the third richest region in Spain.”
The Madrid president denounces that “regions like Valencia or Murcia will continue to be underfunded and the Canary Islands come last.” Meanwhile, she predicts that “they will try to persecute us so that we do not lower taxes, they will try to impose in a sectarian way attacking the supposed fiscal dumping and that we do not continue defending economic and business freedom, which is the key to Madrid.”
Aggrieved Madrid
For Ayuso, the proposal outlines a “totally confiscatory” system that “ends the soul of this region.” Likewise, she stated that in the previous draft the contribution was 4,686 million for Catalonia compared to 2,555 for Madrid, although Ayuso maintained that “we are homogeneous economies from an economic point of view.”
“We only find more grievances, more traps in our draft, so I hope that the autonomous communities know how to speak as it deserves on July 29 because all that text goes against fourteen of the fifteen autonomous communities that make up the common regime system of this model of autonomous financing,” she concluded.
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