• City Councils. Why has the Femp consensus been broken and the PP accuses the Government of "stealing"

The agreement of the Ministry of Finance and the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (Femp) on the use of the remnants and the municipal surplus continues to generate controversy in Catalonia where it seems that the Generalitat and the Barcelona City Council have found a common enemy. "What is it that the Spanish State does not understand that surpluses and surpluses belong to the residents of the municipalities? We have been insisting for months, lost months to save jobs and give people opportunities," said Torra, who Last week it announced that it would file an unconstitutionality appeal against the government's decision to "appropriate" municipal remnants.

Torra considers that it is a "grievance" and that is why he put himself at the head of the Catalan mayors to initiate legal actions against "this very serious damage" to the municipalities. "I ask you to undertake all actions to prevent and prevent the State from using, in an unfair, unsupportive and unilateral way, the resources that should be allocated to the improvement of services and care" of citizens, he pointed out.

For her part, the mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau , has stated that "the proposal made by the Ministry of Finance is simply unacceptable because it does not give us any extraordinary funds and also intends that we deliver the savings that we have made with the good management of these years for him to give us back a small part. "

Colau has regretted that the State "has been able to go to the international markets to finance itself", that the autonomous communities have had an extraordinary fund of 16,000 million euros and that it leaves the city councils tied hand and foot to attend to the most basic needs of citizenship. Colau has indicated that Barcelona will use all the resources to meet the basic needs of the citizens and "if this means that by the end of the year there will be a deficit and we will have to use a part of these remnants, then we will have used them."

The mayor considers that the municipalities were already "very under-financed" before the crisis caused by the covid-19, that Barcelona has stopped earning about 300 million euros and has increased social spending. In this sense, she has asked for "a bit of justice" so that the municipalities can use all their financial capacity and hopes that in September the decree law that includes the agreement between the Government and the Femp will be reviewed, since it does not

Barcelona's position is not unique. All municipalities governed by the commons will not cede the remaining municipal treasury to the Government because they consider that the proposal of the Ministry of Finance "violates municipal autonomy and hinders local governments to manage their resources." Catalunya en Comú has indicated that local funds "in the social and economic reconstruction of the cities" themselves and will not be transferred to the State. They also announced that the municipal groups of the 'commons' will ask the town councils for motions to prevent the transfer.

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