Governing Board and political parties seek a common position for a new autonomous region financing model
Intense morning of meetings in San Telmo between the President Suana Díaz and the highest political representatives of the autonomous community, in which they try to reach a common position on the new financing model. The round of talks started last week with the social and economic actors: employers and trade unions. Today has been the turn of the leaders from IU, Ciudadanos, Podemos, Partido Popular and the Andalusian PSOE. The Governing Board estimates that around 5.5 billion euros has stopped coming into Andalusia due to the current model.
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The political parties of Andalusia along with their parliamentary representatives, have responded to the invitation from the President of the Regional Government, Susana Díaz, who welcomed them this morning in San Telmo to hold talks with the aim of establishing a common position to reform the current autonomous region financing system. All parties agree on the need for the communities to have greater resources to enable them to meet the public services they provide, but more varied standpoints may be seen surrounding the issue of taxation.
The Andalusian Government is convinced that the autonomous community is poorly funded. President Susana Díaz ensures that in 2015 it received 104 euros less per inhabitant than the average. That is why, today, the parliamentary spokespeople from PSOE, PP, Podemos, Ciudadanos and Izquierda Unida individually presented a series of measures involving tax harmonisation, the increase in appropriations for the communities, and a sustainability fund for public services, etc. The Partido Popular believes, as do all the parties, that the current system has to be changed, but that this should be formalised after the national pact between the PSOE and PP is agreed. The proposal was not received very well by the Governing Board, which claims that the agreement should exclusively involve Andalusia.
For Ciudadanos, the key is to increase the appropriations received by the communities. For their part, Podemos and Izquierda Unida aim to make the debate more ambitious in terms of autonomous community financing. They also plan to speak about taxation so as to prevent the working class still having to bear most of the overall tax burden. The President has reconvened all the parties, in order for them to submit their measures in a working group within the Treasury Committee of the Andalusian Parliament, which will start on the 15th of this month.
