The socialists never agree on anything that does not end up benefiting themselves. This has also happened with Junts and the Comuns, but above all with ERC, which claims to have as a priority the improvement of Catalan finances, which is why it is investigating Salvador Illa in exchange for singular financing for Catalonia that should entail – in theory – the exit of the Generalitat from the common regime. All this was agreed more than half a year ago, and nothing is known. It is true that steps have been taken to increase the weight and resources of the Catalan Treasury. That the thing is gradual should not surprise us: creating our own Treasury is not an easy operation. But there would be less mistrust if we had a timetable agreed upon by everyone on the table. The current system of regional financing expired more than five years ago, and nobody is shocked by it. During the last economic crisis, the Spanish government began to lend money to the worst-financed autonomous regions. That is, our money goes away in the form of a fiscal deficit, and part of it is returned to us as a loan with interest. Wonderful!
Seeing that the new financing is going to take a long time, and that the PSC does not care about going on with the live-live without budgets (now the normal That's it, my friends), ERC has agreed to a kind of compensation consisting of a partial forgiveness of the Catalan debt with the Spanish Treasury. In other words, they forgive us part of what we owe the State due to the continued drain on our resources. Oriol Junqueras has had the privilege of announcing the agreement: a forgiveness of 20%, 17 billion euros. Shortly afterwards, the agreement is made public. whole: Obviously, it is a coffee for everyone, but with the usual geopolitical parameters: Catalonia is forgiven 20%? Well, in Andalusia, 50%. So, while the PSOE is keeping its parliamentary partners happy, the Minister of Finance, future PSOE candidate for the Andalusian Government, is beginning the pre-election campaign.
They have psoeized us again, as they would say on the networks. And that does not prevent it from being a favorable agreement and that everything that strengthens the Catalan institutions is good for the country. But it is evident that each step forward that we want to take, to get closer to the availability of resources that we deserve, will be a 17-way game, heavy and endless, which will be used as an excuse for Catalanophobia, which leaves us in the uncomfortable position of Cuckolds already pay for the drinkIf ERC's objective is still to get Catalonia out of the Lofca, it will have to use its strength to the maximum. And that limits the timeframe, because who knows how long Sánchez and Illa will need the votes of the independence movement.
This week we have witnessed the usual recital of complaints and laments by the regional leaders of the PP, which – by the way – have served Feijóo well in diverting the spotlights that were dazzling Mazón. Everything is short-sighted and politicking, there is no project. A fundamental issue such as the distribution of public money is resolved on the basis of small territorial disputes and exchanges of votes. If I really believed in autonomous Spain, I would certainly be disappointed.
All this reminds us of that old fable in which the lord of a castle wanted to settle the constant quarrels between two peasants of the region who, because of an ancestral hatred, were rivals in everything. The lord summoned them both and said to the first: "I am fed up with your quarrels. Now you will be taught a lesson. I will give you whatever you want, but on one condition: the other will receive double." And the peasant, after thinking about it for a while, replied: "Then take out my eye."
