SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Aug. 3 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The national secretary of CC Organization, David Toledo, has assured that the nationalists will “stand up” so that the new regional financing model contemplates criteria such as “insularity” and “ultra-peripherality”.
In this way, he rejected the proposal that has been on the table since 2021, as he pointed out in a statement in which he added that the numbers made by the acting Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero “did not work when he proposed them two years ago and They don’t work now.”
However, he recognized the urgency of a reform that corrects the grievance in terms of financing, since the islands in the 2021 settlement published by the Ministry of Finance received 1,145 euros less per inhabitant than the best-financed community, Cantabria, and 377 euros less than the average state funding per capita, placing the archipelago at the bottom, surpassing only the Balearic Islands.
Regarding the reform of the financing system, Toledo recalled that in the current scenario after the electoral result of July 23, “it is even more necessary to open dialogue and reach agreements in all areas” and highlighted regional financing as “a of the priorities on the agenda of the Canarian nationalists in Madrid”.
“The Canary Islands – he said – cannot continue to pay for the broken dishes of a financing model designed solely and exclusively for the continental territory” and insisted that the proposal of the PSOE government “is not even a starting point for negotiation of the financing model that must be fair with the Canary Islands”.
Another of the red lines marked by the Canary Islands Coalition is that the REF items are not included in the distribution of regional financing.
Thus, Toledo pointed out that “the Economic and Fiscal Regime is the instrument that equalizes the Canaries and the citizens of the rest of the territories and, therefore, must be kept out of regional financing.”
The national secretary of Organization appealed to “dialogue and consensus” to avoid mistakes of the past. Specifically, he referred to the financing system approved in 2009 and which meant that the Islands lost 700 million euros a year.
In the same way, he insisted that the difference “must be considered and quantified” because the future of essential public services depends on this system and a hospital in La Palma does not have the same cost as in Madrid.
Finally, he stressed the need to “open negotiations so that the criteria of insularity and the outermost condition of the Canary Islands have weight in the next regional financing model.”
