The president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alfonso Ruedahas not managed to get the president of the Government, Pedro Sanchezcommits to some of the proposals that have been conveyed to him during the meeting that both held this Friday at the Palacio de La Moncloa. «Many good words, very few details», Rueda stated in his appearance before the media after his meeting with the socialist leader. The Galician president has asked Sánchez to “root cutting” the possibility of unique financing agreements, such as the Catalan quota that the socialists agreed with ERC in exchange for Salvador Illa be the new president of the Generalitat.
«I have held a meeting with the President of the Government seeking the benefit for Galicia. It has been an extensive meeting, with many good words, but with few specifics on his part. I have brought many proposals to which I expect real commitment», assured Alfonso Rueda to describe the meeting he had with Pedro Sánchez in La Moncloa. It is the second time that the president of the Xunta de Galicia meets with the president of the Government, the first time taking place in 2022 after having accepted his current position at the head of the Galician Executive. This meeting took place in the round of meetings with the regional presidents.
Rueda has insisted that regional financing must be debated “multilaterally”that is, with the rest of the regional presidents. «I have not received any specific proposal and I do not know what is going to happen with other regional presidents. This issue worries me, I am worried that the President of the Government does not understand that he has to sit us all down and that the first commitment to make would be outside of our bilateral needs that we can talk in these meetings,” he said in his appearance before the media in The Moncloa.
«This fundamental, backbone issue, we are going to talk about it among all of us. I am very worried that he will not give us that peace of mind and I am leaving with this enormous unease. If I felt that I was going to set a trap Let’s see if it bites and such an offer, I didn’t have it,” he added.
«The Catalan quota harms Galicia»
Alfonso Rueda asks to finish “with bilaterality in regional financing”while admitting that during his meeting with Pedro Sánchez there has been no suggestion of negotiations regarding financing because, he considers that the favorable framework for this is with all the presidents through the Conference of Presidents or the Council of Fiscal and Financial Policy.
However, the socialist leader has not given him any specific date to hold this meeting with the territorial leaders. «He did not give me a date for a Conference of Presidents“I think it will be soon, but when I asked him to talk about financing and not just housing, he told me that the Conferences of Presidents are about reaching agreements and that he did not see an agreement possible on this matter,” he stated.
«I have expressed my conviction that singular financing pacts like the one we are observing, which is being closed or announced, at least that is what we are told with Catalonia, harm, in my opinion, to all autonomous communes», he pointed out. «And of course, I have no doubt. In the autonomous community that I preside over, in Galicia we even have it quantified at around from what we know, I insist, from the data that we are learning about a decrease with respect to current financing and we aspire to have more than 450 million euros “If it were generalized with other autonomous communities that are currently net contributors to the system, it could be much more,” he emphasized.
When asked if he had spoken with Sánchez about debt forgiveness, Rueda confirmed that he had not received any specific offer at this meeting, adding that the head of the Executive had informed him that debt relief They were another formula within the general financing system.
I have held a meeting with the President of the Government seeking the benefit for Galicia. It has been an extensive meeting, with many good words, but with few specifics on his part. I have made many proposals to which I expect real commitment pic.twitter.com/gJ2FckC5H5
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