The elections in Andalusia have been held and finally in Catalonia we now have permission to approve the budgets of the Generalitat without bothering the PSOE and its candidate, María Jesús Montero. This waiting period has not prevented, of course, the PP candidate for the Andalusian presidency from attacking the socialist candidate over the new regional financing system, with phrases such as: “[This agreement will cause] the interests of Andalusians to be trampled on again, equality between Spaniards to be broken and, in short, one of the most beautiful coexistence projects, which is Spain, to be cracked”.
The cynicism with which they deceive Spaniards by frightening them with Catalan greed is beginning to be a hate crime. Not many days ago I was talking to a former regional president who was always short of money, and he told me that Moreno Bonilla is clapping his hands (in private, of course) at the possible approval of the new regional financing system agreed by Esquerra and the Spanish government, because Andalusia could receive more than 4.8 billion euros (a little more than Catalonia).
The fact is that our country will have new budgets again after the last ones approved, in 2023, with the government of Pere Aragonès, and this will be good news. But the Government cannot stop there. What is its response to the diagnosis of the economists who signed theFènix Report? Above all, what proposals for reform of our productive system is it willing to consider? And just like the Government, what do the employers’ associations and trade unions say? It is not worth trying to make people believe that the report makes a speech against immigration. We have had enough demagoguery these days in the Andalusian campaign.
