Antoni Bassas' analysis: 'The settlement of the debt is good but it does not solve the plunder'
This severance payment is good, but it is only a patch that somewhat alleviates an unsustainable situation: that the financing system has systematically suffocated the Generalitat for decades, from the "premeditated suffocation" that the professor and councilor Trias Fargas already denounced.
Is it good news that the Generalitat does not have to repay 17,104 million euros of debt to the State? Yes, it is. For obvious reasons. Is it a "lift of the shirt", as Junts says? No, it is not, the Generalitat will have 17,104 million euros. Is it coffee for everyone? Yes, as always. Everything that Catalonia negotiates is for the others, too. That is to say, it is not a joke as long as we accept that all the autonomous governments benefit from the reduction of the debt (except those of the Basque Country and Navarre, which have their own financing system), and as long as we understand that the debt does not disappear but is transformed, that is to say, that it is one thing for the Generalitat to have more money and another thing for the Generalitat to have more money.
And now look at this picture and then a question will come:
Catalonia is not the most benefited by the debt forgivenessAndalusia has more debt forgiven in absolute terms (18,791 million), Catalonia is at the bottom of the list in terms of the percentage of debt forgiven out of the total current liabilities and, per inhabitant, the Valencian Community, Andalusia and Castilla-La Mancha benefit the most.
And now the question: Seeing these figures, how can the governments of the PP, Feijóo and the ineffable Ayuso say that They don't want that debt settlement?
But of course, if even Together criticizes a measure Because Esquerra has made a pact with him, what must the autonomous governments governed by the PP not say? Well, that it is a new concession by Perrosanxe to the perfidious Catalan separatists who keep him alive in Moncloa.
Now, having said all this, it is clear that we would not be talking about the FLA and that the Generalitat would not have accumulated nearly 89 billion euros of debt if Catalonia had a financing system that was up to the needs of its health, educational, social, and infrastructure services, etc. In other words, this settlement is good, but it is only a patch that somewhat alleviates an unsustainable situation: that the financing system has been systematically suffocating the Generalitat for decades, since the "premeditated suffocation" that the professor and councillor Trias Fargas already denounced.
Good morning.
