The DANA (National Electoral Council) passed us by on Saturday, but everything will be lowered again today, because we'll learn the details of the agreement for the new financing of Catalonia agreed between ERC and the PSC for the investiture of Salvador Illa. It will be presented at the end of a curious meeting of the Generalitat-State Bilateral Commission. Curious because there will be Socialists on both sides, at a time when the PSOE spokesperson is from the PSC and the president of the Generalitat is a former minister and personal confidant of the Spanish president.
An agreement worthy of this name should mean a resounding improvement in the Generalitat's income (as resounding as the fiscal effort of the Catalans), which is why today we will hear thunder (the key word will be privileges) because when it comes to the money of the Catalans, who are major contributors to the Spanish welfare state, the political discussion reaches hysterical levels. The obscene thing is that those who will most strongly argue that this can only be agreed upon by the State with all the regions are the same ones who haven't lifted a finger to renew a financing system approved in 2009 and that has been out of date since 2014.
Catalonia now has 650,000 more inhabitants than in 2009. It's impossible for healthcare, education, and social protection, which depend on the Generalitat (Catalan government), to be adequately provided with a system designed for another era in the country and the world. But the proposal goes beyond money and involves power: the Catalan Tax Agency must collect, assess, and inspect all taxes paid in our country. And this provokes more than hysteria: it sets in motion the deep state, the one that always announces that the Catalans will stage a coup d'état. They hope to do it first, of course.
