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The Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, announced this Saturday the creation of a fund of 16,000 million "non-refundable" for the autonomous communities within 48 hours of claiming it Esquerra Republicana, his key parliamentary support.

The leader of Esquerra and vice president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonés, began to request this fund last Thursday to cover the fight against the coronavirus and to receive 4,000 million spira . The agility in the response contrasts with the request made in the same sense by the President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso. The PP leader sent a letter to the Minister of Finance a month ago, on April 3, requesting the creation of an autonomous fund like the one Sánchez was requesting for the State in the European Union and the rest joined her request. of PP barons.

However, there was no response from the president even in his speech last weekend, in which he hinted that the 300 million he had made available to the communities was sufficient .

The president has rectified at an express time after a request from Esquerra, which he may need in next week's votes to extend the state of alarm. You also need to maintain PP support, increasingly in the air.

In these circumstances, Sánchez advanced in his appearance this Saturday the creation of this special fund "for social and economic recovery . " Of its endowment, 10,000 million euros will be for health spending, another 5,000 million to alleviate the fall in economic activity in the autonomous communities, and the remaining 1,000 million for social spending, as he explained, stressing that the communities will not have to return it.

Aragonese reacted quickly: " It is good news, but you have to know the details," he asked that the transfer be "immediate . " His request doubles the 2,000 million requested by Díaz Ayuso in Madrid. Madrid government sources reserved their opinion until they saw "the fine print."

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