Castilla y León sees the Government’s “silence” regarding the ‘Catalan quota’ as “serious” and asks for financing “without privileges”

The Minister of Economy and Finance and spokesman for the Regional Government of Castilla y León, Carlos Fernández Carriedo, has considered the central government’s silence regarding the so-called ‘Catalan quota’ to be “serious” and has insisted on his defense of financing “without privileges” and in “equality.”

Fernández Carriedo has expressed himself in this way at the press conference after the Government Council about the approach launched by the president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Pere Aragonés, regarding financing and that would mean collecting one hundred percent of the taxes in their territoryoy contribute, after the fact, with a contribution to the State coffers, reports Ep.

“The fact that the president of the Generalitat proposes it is surely not so serious, but rather the silence of the Government of Spain in the face of this position and the fact that In the pacts for the investiture of the current president, these types of issues have been included in some of them,” said the Minister of Economy and Finance.

In this way it has guaranteed that Castilla y León is “clearly in favor” of “unprivileged” financing and that includes “equality” among all Spaniards, in addition to “territorial cohesion and solidarity.” “Taxes are paid by citizens, they are not paid by the territories, any analysis, like the one they want to put on the table, starts from a very wrong idea, which is that taxes are paid by the territories, they are paid by the provinces , they are paid by the autonomous communities,” he explained.

In this way, Fernández Carriedo has insisted that taxes They are paid based on contributory capacity and services are received based on needs. of each citizen. “What determines the tax paid is the contributory capacity of each citizen so that everyone is equal before the law and pays the same, wherever they live.”

Thus, he has criticized the idea that, in his opinion, the so-called ‘Catalan quota’ is intended to be conveyed and which is based on the fact that people have to receive services based on the taxes they pay, something that he has considered “very unfair and unequal”.

In this sense, he has insisted on the importance of advance in “financing without privileges, on equality and that guarantees territorial cohesion”. Thus, he has indicated that he does not understand how the Government “maintains silence” in this debate that, as he recalled, whoever raises it, in reference to Pere Aragonés, does not even attend the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council (CPFF).

“With the current Government there has been only one meeting of the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council, zero meetings of the Conference of Presidents and four meetings with Puigdemont in Switzerlandthis is not the way to guarantee equality among Spaniards,” he criticized, after which he once again demanded a call for the Conference of Presidents.

“You cannot continue governing under pressure, under threat and subject to the need for Spaniards to have to grant benefits, advantages and inequalities to those who have the possibility of guaranteeing parliamentary support.” so that someone remains president of the government who has shown that he always puts his interests before the general interests of the country“, he pointed out.

Finally, the Minister of Economy and Finance has once again asked the Government for explanations about the lack of 51.5 million euros per month in payments on account that the Community receives with respect to those reported. “Two months have passed and we are talking about 103 million euros,” he concluded.