The second time is expected to be the charm. The Ministry of Finance is set to approve this Friday the reform of the regional financing model after 17 years of debates and fruitless discussions. More than three decades during which public services have been strained and therefore need additional resources. To alleviate this deficit, the proposal that the central Government will put to a vote includes an additional 21 billion for the system. However, the Executive has only managed so far to gain the support of Catalonia and the Canary Islands, co-governed by the PP. The rest of the autonomous communities, all those with PP presidents and two socialists, Castilla-La Mancha and Asturias, have indicated that they will reject it. The Community of Madrid will not be at tomorrow’s meeting of the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council, having announced today that it will not attend and has called on other governments of the same political color to boycott it.