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Script Twist United We can vote today against the PP initiative that requires the unlocking of regional funding. The purples are critical of the management that the Ministry of Finance is doing and at first they planned to abstain, but this afternoon they have informed about the final meaning of their vote in the Congress of Deputies. In this way, the purple coalition clothes the Executive in a very symbolic day, in which the negotiations to achieve an investiture have been wrecked again, breaking into electoral drums.

United We want the Treasury to release the 7,200 million corresponding to the -4,700 autonomies for account deliveries and 2,500 for the 2017 VAT settlement - and has requested an immediate solution. But, in order not to vote together with the PP and against the PSOE, during the Plenary that is being held in the Lower House, he has argued that it is better to face a complete reform of the financing system.

"It is necessary to demand from the Government the responsibility to face the transfers", assured the deputy Héctor Illueca from the rostrum, "but raising this short-term problem by avoiding addressing the fundamental issues that burden the autonomous communities is opportunistic, irresponsible and demagogic." Illueca has caused the PSOE not to have formed a government to transfer the funds.

Several parties have announced that they will vote in favor of the non-law proposal: PP, Citizens, Vox, Navarra Suma, Canarian Coalition, Cantabrian Regionalist Party and Compromís (party related to United We Can). There are 153 deputies, compared to 165 who already have the "no" insured, since the purple confluence has sided with the PSOE. Therefore, the initiative will decline if the independentists do not support the PP.

It should be remembered that United We had criticized the Ministry of Finance for its malpractice in this matter, and that Podemos is claiming in the autonomies that funds are already released. "It is very serious the affectation that these advances on account have for the country", since "public services" such as dependency, health and education are put in danger, Yolanda Díaz , deputy of United Podemos.

The president of the Balearic Islands, the socialist Francina Armengol, presented in the insular parliament a request to appear voluntarily to face the need for regional financing of the community and guarantee the arrival of the 177 million pending resources of 2019. The socialist initiative , also signed by Podemos, also requests the convening of the Fiscal Policy Council to "face the uncertainties facing the objectives of the budgetary and financial stability of 2020".

And from Podemos Valencia consider that "the Ministry of Finance is responsible for finding a solution to deliver the payments due to the autonomous communities." "It is not acceptable that the Government of Spain not only does not address a solution for regional financing, but requires more cuts," they add.

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