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Andalusia could be harmed in the distribution of the extraordinary funds authorized by the Government to alleviate the expenses derived from the coronavirus crisis precisely because of the low incidence that the pandemic has registered in the community. The Chairman of the Board, Juan Manuel Moreno, has categorically rejected today that the distribution of 16,000 million for the communities is made based mainly on the virulence of the disease in each region and not according to the population, as Andalusia and also claimed Catalonia.

Through a comment published on the social network Twitter, Moreno has asked the Government for a "fair" distribution. "Enough discrimination," said the Andalusian president after meeting late Monday and after a meeting with the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, with the councilors, that the intention of the Government is to give more to those communities in which the disease has had a greater impact. Instead, Moreno argues that Andalusia needs tools to combat the effect of the coronavirus on the economy "on an equal footing with the rest of Spain."

In the same vein, the Andalusian Minister of Finance, Juan Bravo, has criticized this Tuesday that a criteria for the distribution of funds is established that clearly damages Andalusia, modifying "unilaterally" the distribution conditions that had been agreed in the Interterritorial Health Council, where the volume of population that each autonomous government should attend was mainly taken into account.

Bravo explained in an interview on Canal Sur Radio that it was precisely the Andalusian Government that asked Minister Montero to create a "non-reimbursable fund" that would allow the communities to face the enormous health expenditure that the health crisis had already generated. the decrease in income as a consequence of the stoppage of activity and consumption. However, unlike what happened when the first 300 million euros were distributed to alleviate the first expenses of Health, when the volume of population was established as a preferred criterion, now "unilaterally" it is decided to modify the priorities . Andalusia calculates that it will correspond to around 950 million of those 16,000 that the Government is willing to distribute.

"Why is that change introduced if the other was agreed and why is the criterion imposed instead of opening a debate?" Asks Bravo. And he adds: "Every time they make a deal, Andalusia always suffers."

"In Andalusia we have set up field hospitals like the one in Malaga, which fortunately has not been used but had to be prepared. We have medicalized residences and also hotels with the aim of being prepared in case the number of infections soared, and we have also blocked beds in private healthcare, we have borne all these costs and should be taken into account when distributing funds, "said Bravo in the same interview.

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