The Government will finally use the Catalan Institute of Finance (ICF) to guarantee the guarantees that the Court of Accounts claims from former high-ranking officials of the Generalitat, a possibility that the Minister of Economy and Finance, Jaume Giró, ruled out on Tuesday.

This was announced this Wednesday by Giró himself in the control session of the Government in the Parliament, the same day that the deadline for paying the bonds imposed by the Court of Auditors expires.

On July 6, the Government approved by decree the creation of a fund with an initial endowment of 10 million euros to help the 34 former high-ranking officials from whom the Court of Auditors claims bonds worth 5.4 million for having promoted with public money the "procés" abroad, but yesterday Giró acknowledged that they have not found any bank that guarantees the guarantees and ruled out resorting to the ICF as a plan B, so as not to put its professionals at risk.

However, after meeting this morning with the Catalan president, Pere Aragonès, in the Parliament, the minister has announced a change in his decision: "I have received calls these hours from people from the ICF who have asked please that we try to use this additional provision as it is foreseen in the decree law. This is what we will do ".

Giró has affirmed that the decision not to endorse through the ICF was taken "out of prudence" and to "protect" the workers of the institute, although he acknowledged this Wednesday that his words "were of some use."

"They served so that I have received calls from people from the ICF who have asked me please not to stay for them, and that we try to use this additional provision as provided in the decree law," he said in response to a question from the deputy of JxCat Elsa Artadi.

And he thanked the ICF workers for the "generosity", although he asked to take the announcement "with all the prudence that experience recommends."

On Tuesday, the Government announced after its weekly meeting that it had not found any bank to guarantee the finances of the Court of Accounts.

The fund would work with a mechanism similar to that of a private insurance: a private entity would guarantee the finances with a counter-guarantee from the Generalitat through the ICF.

This situation led the parties and entities to activate other ways to collect the money from the bonds, either through the Solidarity Fund or by asking for donations directly, as was the case with JxCat.

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