Silvia Moreno / Agencies Seville
Seville
Updated Wednesday, February 28, 2024-11:53
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The deficient
financing
that the Andalusian community has suffered for years has affected this Wednesday the events celebrating
Andalusia Day
, when the date of the referendum of February 28, 1980 is commemorated by which it acceded to full autonomy.
In his speech before the institutional plenary session, the president of the Andalusian Parliament,
Jesús Aguirre
(PP), has asked for an end to the
"grievance"
that Andalusia suffers with regional financing, under a system that was implemented in 2009. , during the time of the socialist José Luis
Rodríguez Zapatero
as President of the Government.
This system has expired since 2014.
Aguirre has claimed that Andalusians
"are not second-class Spaniards"
and has urged to "solve once and for all through dialogue the endemic evil" that places Andalusia as an "aggrieved territory" in terms of regional financing.
These words were spoken with the first vice president of the Government and Minister of Finance,
María Jesús Montero
, in the guest gallery.
Precisely Montero, in her time as Minister of the Treasury in Andalusia, championed the financing and vehemently demanded
1.4 billion euros from the then government chaired by
Mariano Rajoy (PP) to begin to put an end to the Andalusian grievance.
Since she has held positions of responsibility in the Government of
Pedro Sánchez
, this matter has been buried and there is no sign that the central Executive is going to promote a possible reform of the financing system.
Before the institutional plenary session began, Montero met with the president of the Junta de Andalucía, the
popular
Juanma
Moreno
.
"I see you very red"
, -because of her dress-, When are we going to fix the financing?
1.4 billion," Moreno asked the vice president. "Is this so that journalists can listen to you?
"It's a pose," the Finance Minister, who is also the Minister of Finance, responded in a relaxed tone before the numerous cameras that captured the moment.
The institutional plenary session held in the Autonomous Chamber on the occasion of Andalusia Day has been preceded by the
flag-raising
ceremony at the doors of Parliament, together with two children, with the interpretation of the anthem by a flamenco group and with representatives of all the institutional, political (except Vox), economic and social spheres.
The Constitution
In his speech, Jesús Aguirre also asked to defend the Constitution
"without hesitation"
and to highlight its "value as a link that some territories try to break"
by fleeing from "separatism"
and avoiding proposing the implementation of measures that "put "at risk" compliance with the Magna Carta and may pose "threats to coexistence among all citizens of the country."
The president of the Chamber has stressed the need to "defend a real separation of powers and promote unity among all Spaniards" on the basis of the Constitution.
"Let's do it within the constitutional limits and respecting the value that all communities have, because there is not one that is worth more than the other, nor one that is less than the other," added Aguirre, who has claimed that the Andalusians "
do not "We are second-class Spaniards
, we are Spanish and that's it, and we defend equal opportunities and real rights with respect to the rest of the country's citizens."
Confrontation
In the huddles prior to the institutional event, Montero took the opportunity to ask the president of the Board, "instead of wasting energy" on the "politics of confrontation", to put the powers of the community "at the service of the Andalusians to continue rowing in a direction that allows us to achieve well-being".
He has said that this community is one of the most important engines of Spain, and that the Government acts to achieve equal opportunities and
reverse
"many decades, many centuries in which Andalusia has played a
secondary role
within everything that has been national politics and European politics".
"I think we can say with pride that we are witnessing an important moment in which the Government of Spain is making a clear commitment to the
autonomous communities
, as demonstrated by the resources it transfers to each of the territories, and on the other hand improving basic issues of the quality of life of citizens through the increase in the interprofessional minimum wage, the revaluation of pensions, or the increase in scholarships," he added.