The PP takes the clash over regional financing to Moncloa

• Clamor of the PP and its barons against the Government of Pedro Sánchez in the inauguration of Moreno

• Moreno will go "for all" this legislature, with a "loud voice" in defense of Andalusia and against the "privileges" of other territories

The PP has taken this Thursday to Moncloa the clash over regional financing, an issue that communities of different political persuasion have spent years demanding that it be reformed, but it remains bogged down.

Three regional presidents of the PP: that of Andalusia, Juanma Moreno, that of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, and that of Galicia, Alfonso Rueda, have asked the President of the Government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, to reform the model of the financing in the meeting that the three, separately, held in Moncloa.

Moreno has asked Sánchez that the central government "lead" and "sit at a table" all the communities to reform the current

model that is "unfair" and maintains "under-financed" territories.

Andalusia loses about

euros a year -says the Andalusian Government- with the current system, approved in 2009 by the Government of Rodríguez Zapatero with the support of ERC.

"The algorithm that Zapatero agreed with ERC has left many communities by the wayside," Moreno criticized.

Since the current model is in force, Andalusia has lost, according to the accounts of the Board, about

euros that could have been allocated to health, education or to generate employment and progress, the Andalusian president has added.

"Being aware that it is complex and arduous" to reform the current financing model, Andalusia and the Valencian Community have proposed to the Government that it arbitrate a

leveling fund that compensates the worst-financed communities, while the financing system is reformed.

This issue was already raised in September last year by Moreno and the president of the Valencian Community, the socialist Ximo Puig, and this Thursday, the Andalusian president reiterated it to Pedro Sánchez.

This transitory fund that the communities ask the Government would have to be endowed with some 1,731 million euros that would be distributed between Andalusia (824 million), Valencia (648 million), Murcia (194 million) and Castilla la Mancha (65 million), according to Moreno has detailed.

Pedro Sánchez

of these claims, as explained by Moreno, who asks that "paper" be passed to "action and reality."

However, the Andalusian president is not too confident that the reform of regional financing will be addressed in this legislature.

- Moreno said - because Sánchez intends that "first" there be an agreement between the two big parties, but Moreno considers that it should be the central Executive who "leads and sits down at a table" with the communities " to start talking", understanding that it is a "complex issue because there are conflicting interests" between the different communities.

Regarding the reform of the regional financing system, the president of Castilla y León expressed his concern to Sánchez about the possibility that there may be

for some autonomy, in a veiled reference to Catalonia and, later, before the press, he stated that he will be "very attentive to the fulfillment of the constitutional mandate of equality between territories".

On this issue, Fernández Mañueco regretted having received "a long change" from the president.

Alfonso Rueda has insisted on the issue and assured that Sánchez had agreed that "we must start talking" about the reform, despite the complexity involved in modifying the system due to the disparities between autonomies.

On the contrary, the president of the Xunta has received a

to the transfer of

powers .

Water

Another "key" issue for Andalusia is water, which is for the Andalusian economy "the same as gas is for the German economy", has compared Moreno, who has asked Pedro Sánchez for a "powerful" drought decree and who undertakes the water infrastructures that are the responsibility of the Government.

In the document that Moreno has transferred to Sánchez with

, it also appears that the new State agencies that are looking for headquarters are located in Andalusia.

Thus, for the Spanish Space Agency it has offered Seville, for the Artificial Intelligence Agency, Granada, and for the State Center for Public Health any place in the Andalusian community.

The official meeting this Thursday is the second between the two presidents.

The first occurred a year ago, on June 17, 2012, almost two and a half years after Moreno was elected chief of the Andalusian Executive, on that occasion he was president of a coalition government with Ciudadanos.

Now, Moreno has an absolute majority after the Andalusian elections of 19-J.

Privileges

The Andalusian president has also complained about the

that Andalusia suffers with respect to other territories such as Catalonia, which holds

with the Government of Pedro Sánchez.

"Why is it that when I ask for a bilateral meeting, we are not given a favorable response?" Moreno asked, recalling that the Andalusian Statute of Autonomy provides for this type of meeting between the two governments.

In fact, last year in Moncloa he already asked Sánchez to activate these bilateral commissions with Andalusia, but the Prime Minister turned a deaf ear.

Moreno, who already announced in his inaugural speech this Saturday that this legislature will go "for all",

, has expressed his rejection of having "privileges" for some territories.

The fires

Meanwhile, the presidents of Castilla y León and Galicia, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco and Alfonso Rueda, joined their voices to demand from the President of the Government more means to fight the fires and the declaration of a

for the affected territories.

Both also expressed to Sánchez their desire to "take this issue out of the partisan battle" and lamented the statements made by the Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, assuring that some communities "have not done their homework" in terms of prevention and as a consequence They need the help of the UME.

Both one and the other affirmed that the Prime Minister had agreed to leave the drama of the fires out of the war between parties, a coincidence that, later, the minister spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, took it upon herself to cool down by replying that What is needed is for communities to "modernize their extinction plans."

The spokeswoman stressed that the central government puts the resources but it is those of the autonomies that have the powers.

One and the other handed over to the President of the Government two folders of documentation with all the demands of their communities in terms of health, education, infrastructure and investment.

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