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The Generalitat of Catalonia plants the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, in the first meeting with the autonomous communities since 2018 convened for this Friday. The vice president and head of Economy of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonés , has been summoned by Montero on Tuesday, but refuses to attend, as confirmed by EL MUNDO sources from his department.

"The vice president will not come," they say. This is the first meeting of the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council ( CPFF ) in a year and a half and Montero needs it to start the preparation of the Budgets. According to her, she is going to "transfer" a new deficit path from the State as a whole to the regional treasury councilors, a previous step necessary to establish an expenditure ceiling and prepare Budgets for 2020.

Aragonés and his predecessor, Oriol Junqueras, have resisted going in the past when considering it an authoritarian forum of the central government and does not modify this opinion, despite open negotiations with the PSOE for the investiture and the fact that the president of the Government Pedro Sánchez, agreed to meet this Thursday in Barcelona with the president of the Generalitat, Quim Torra, under pressure from Aragon himself.

In the press conference after the Council of Ministers, Montero had hope that the leader of Esquerra would attend. He affirmed that he hopes that "institutional normality will be the dominant note that begins to preside over the relations between the Government and the Generalitat", and has stressed that the preliminary draft of the Budgets it prepares is "quite convenient" for Catalonia and "urgent" for Spain .

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