Catalonia will receive the largest investment from the State in 2023, 8% more than Andalusia and 92% more than Madrid

The autonomous community in which the State is going to invest more in the year of the economic slowdown is going to be Catalonia.

According to the official distribution of the investment, the community that governs a key partner of the coalition government such as Esquerra, will receive 2,508 million, which is 8% more than Andalusia, the second most benefited with 2,318 million.

The figure for infrastructure development in Catalonia will also be 92% higher than that of Madrid.

Although the community chaired by

rises 13.3% compared to the 2022 budget, it remains at 1,305 million.

Catalonia takes more than 17% of the 13,443 million that the Government considers "regionalizable investment".

while Madrid does not reach 10%.

As usual in the bill, the Ministry of Finance asks to take the data "with caution" due to the complexity of distributing investments by territory.

"Although the territorialization of investments can be useful as a first approximation, there are a series of very important limitations in this information that mean that comparisons between territories or between years within the same territory

and lead to the error in the assessments.

However, the first position of Catalonia in investments is not something punctual.

It also occurred, among others, last year, because the Minister of Finance,

, says she feels obliged to invest in that community the equivalent of its weight in GDP "to comply with its Statute of Autonomy", but the Constitutional Court freed the central government from such an obligation since its famous ruling on the Catalan regional regulations.

Among those that most improve their share of the cake in the distribution of 2023 is the Basque Country, which will receive 558.8 million, 8% more investment and goes from representing 3.9% of the total to 4.2% .

The Basque Nationalist Party is, like Esquerra, significant for the Government to carry out the Budgets in Parliament.

Cantabria also raises its quota from 1.8% to 2.2%, in which the PSOE governs in coalition with the Regionalist Party of

.

At the other extreme is the fall in the distribution of the Community of Murcia, governed by the PP, which falls from 724 million of budgeted investment in 2022 to 481 million in the next year.

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