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The rebel mayors - who have already pressed to overturn the previous municipal government decree - are once again organizing against the Executive.

The new draft decree managed by the

allows them to use their remnants, but the mayors think it is "absolutely insufficient", as several of them explained to

, since it leaves the municipalities without surplus and because it eliminates the 1,000 million for transportation provided for in the previous decree.

In this battle against the Government, the PP is not alone.

In fact, this time it is the mayors of

(ERC) and

(Junts per Catalunya) who have called for today an emergency meeting - a third telematic municipal summit - to "pressure" the Government of Pedro Sánchez and achieve a extra fund of about 5,000 million euros to fight the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

These mayors explain that they do not represent their parties, but the cities they manage.

But municipal sources add that the directions of ERC and Junts, as well as those of the PP or Citizens, also reject the text on which the Treasury is now working.

In total harmony with these mayors are the councilors of the PP.

But also those of Cs, Compromís, BNG or the Regionalist Party of Cantabria, as well as many socialists who prefer not to make public their discomfort with the plans of Minister María Jesús Montero, according to municipal sources.

The decree that the Executive prepares would allow the municipalities, now and yes, to use their remnants.

But the councilors also ask for an extra fund also for the consistories that have not had a surplus.

"Having or not having a surplus is not attributable to citizens", explains the mayor of Lleida,

, to EL MUNDO, "and it is the citizens who suffer the crisis generated by the coronavirus, sometimes with two confinements, as in Lleida ».

For this, the councilors demand an extra fund of 5,000 million that could come from European funds, although they point out that this amount is negotiable.

As they denounce, the local Administration has not received any help from the State to face the pandemic in contrast to the communities, which have had 16,000 million.

The municipalities ask for a fund of 5,000 million apart from the remainder

More than 25 mayors from 13 different parties from all over Spain have already confirmed their attendance at today's summit.

Among them those of

or

.

Pueyo told this newspaper that it is even possible that the mayor of

, Ada Colau, who governs with the PSC, will

also join

.

The mayor of Zaragoza,

(of the PP), explained yesterday to this newspaper that the draft decree that this newspaper unveiled yesterday has sown "alarm and fear" among mayors, because "it does not put any extra amount on the table" when other administrations will have them.

"The Ministry cannot be wrong again," warned Azcón.

Otherwise, "it will be heading towards another parliamentary defeat without a doubt."

The

councilor

of Zaragoza demands that the finance minister speak to the mayors before taking her new decree to the

if she does not want to face a parliamentary defeat again.

The previous decree, which was rejected by the Plenary of Congress, had not only the rejection of the mayors of the rest of the parties, but also of several of the PSOE, who even assured that they would not hand over their remnants to the Government.

"On that occasion, it is not a battle of a city council or a group of city councils against the Government, nor of a party against the Executive," municipal sources explain.

"It is a conflict between the municipalities and the Government, since the previous decree was unfair, unsupportive and went against municipal autonomy," Azcón added yesterday.

"The Government already had to rectify once," FEMP sources explain to this newspaper, "and if the decree does not change, it may go to a second rectification because it will go against what the

unanimously approved.

The PP, for example, requires a "guarantee" that the municipalities will participate in the funds granted by the

, as will happen to the Autonomous Communities.

The new decree advanced yesterday by this newspaper eliminates the spending rule and establishes the extension for 2020 of the destination of the 2019 surplus to "financially sustainable investments."

In addition, it allows "to extend the procedure for the execution of financially sustainable investments whose projects began in 2019 and which are being financed with a surplus from 2018".

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