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The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has finally included in the royal decree the creation of the so - called Covid-19 Fund for the autonomous communities in the face of the coronavirus crisis, a provision that renounces all state control of the money transferred.

Article 1.5 of the Royal Decree establishes that "transfers made from this endowment will not be conditioned by what will be the responsibility of the autonomous communities and cities with autonomy status to allocate these resources to the purpose for which they have been granted" .

This is an unprecedented laxity on the part of the Government, since the State will have to borrow for this exceptional fund without claiming accounts of whether there has been a correct use of the public Administrations that receive it.

The provision fits with Sánchez's claim to enhance the responsibility of the communities in the governance of the coronavirus. It is also in tune with its attempt to distribute the new European recovery fund also without specific conditions.

The fund was created to provide communities "with more financing to face the budgetary incidence caused by the Covid-19 crisis and allow them to enable budget credits in their spending budget," states the royal decree.

3,200 million, "insufficient" for Catalonia

Sources from the Ministry of Finance clarify that the control established in 2015 for the Generalitat of Catalonia is still in force, for which it has to report a posteriori that it has used state money for legal purposes. According to the Court of Auditors, it is a control "easily circumvented" by the independentistas.

Catalonia will receive some 3,200 million euros, equivalent to 20% of the new fund. This is the largest portion, second only to the Community of Madrid, which plans to receive 3,416 million. The government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso avoided this Wednesday criticizing the central government for the distribution of the fund and considered the endowment "adequate", according to the words of Vice President Ignacio Aguado .

The vice president of the Catalan Generalitat, Pere Aragonés , however, described as "insufficient" the similar figure that his territory will receive and insisted on expanding the fund's general endowment to 25,000 million so that the part destined for Catalonia also increases.

The two communities hardest hit by the pandemic have been the most benefited in distribution, accounting for more than 40% of the fund's 16,000 million euros. The final icing on reserving the lion's share of 800 million for transport to Madrid and Catalonia rounds out its harvest at the bottom.

The other beneficiaries

The most populous and extensive, Andalusia, appears in third position with 2,052 million, and the fourth in absolute terms is the Valencian Community, with 1,463 million. Its president, Ximo Puig, who had complained at the beginning of the negotiation, was satisfied.

The Murcian president, Fernando López Miras, and the Galician, Alberto Núñez Feijóo were very critical. The Murcian government made a preliminary estimate of the distribution and concluded that, in terms of inhabitants, the communities that benefited most immediately after Madrid and Catalonia were La Rioja, the Balearic Islands and Castilla-La Mancha, all of them governed by socialist presidents. Feijóo called the criteria "opaque".

The Minister of Finance of Murcia, Javier Celdrán , considers that with such a distribution "Sánchez condemns Murcia to a slower and more costly way out of the crisis." In his opinion, he should have made a distribution "according to a population criterion".

Taking into account not only that factor, but several others, "the feeling we have is that the Government has never sought a fair, equal and equitable distribution, but to compensate and favor those territories and those parties that maintain it in La Moncloa "

Celdrán does not object that Madrid is the most benefited, but describes as "absolutely insulting" that each Catalan or La Riojan receives more than 100 euros more than each Murcian.

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