Feijóo: "I know Catalonia needs more funding and will get it."

BarcelonaAlberto Núñez Feijóo's eye on Catalonia regarding financing: "I know that Catalonia needs more financing and will have it." This Friday, the PP president expressed openness to agreeing on a system that would provide more money to Catalonia. However, for the PP, this agreement should not be carried out "in a room against everything else," referring to the bilateral commission between the Generalitat and the Spanish government that is scheduled to meet on Monday, but rather should be framed within the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council, where all the autonomous regions have a voice.

At an event next to Barcelona Cathedral, Feijóo described the negotiations with the State for a one-off financing arrangement as a "patch," a "shortcut," and a "mistake for Catalonia." "What is discussed [in the bilateral commission] remains a conversation," he said, asserting that the Catalan and Spanish governments "do not have the capacity to agree and regulate" this issue in a single meeting. "Neither the Vice President has the capacity to transfer 100% of a tax to an autonomous community, nor does the president of any autonomous community have the legality or capacity to assume this commitment if they are not part of the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council," he commented.

Feijóo said that this has been done "since the beginning of time" and recalled that the current financing model was agreed upon between the tripartite coalition and the government of José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero. Although, in his opinion, this model was "imposed," he celebrated the fact that "at least they took it to the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council," of which his Galician government was a member, and challenged the parties to take the current proposal to the body: "I want to know what the president of Castilla-La Mancha and the president of Asturias think."

Faced with this situation, Feijóo called for the design of a "solid" financing system "to be permanent," one that is "the product of an agreement" with all the autonomous regions. He also accused the Spanish government of "living on its knees" and expressed his conviction that the Catalan people are much more supportive than some of their politicians.

Security meeting in Barcelona without Alejandro Fernández

Feijóo has come to Barcelona to meet with various organizations and associations and address the issue of security. He pledged to pass a law against repeated offenses, if he governs, during his first 100 days in office. He also promised legal reform to require squatters to vacate a home within 48 hours of receiving a request from public authorities. Feijóo attended the event with the leader of the PP in the city, Daniel Sirera, and the president of the PP in Barcelona, ​​Manuel Reyes, without the presence of the leader in Catalonia, Alejandro Fernández, who is in Gijón presenting his book. The poor relationship between them is no secret, as is the rapport Feijóo has with Sirera, whom he has chosen, along with Juan Fernández, spokesperson in the Parliament, to serve on the executive committee of the state PP.

He insists on linking Sánchez to prostitution.

Just as he and members of the party have already done this weekFeijóo has insisted on accusing the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, of having ties to the prostitution business through the gay saunas run by his late father-in-law, and has asserted that he has not made "any criticism," but rather "an account" of the matter. The PP leader has also linked the supposedly high level of street insecurity to the alleged cases of corruption affecting the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party): "When a government is born from corruption, it lives with corruption, and it will die from corruption. Logically, this has a contagion effect on society, producing these levels of insecurity in Spain."