Just hours after the First Vice President and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, explained the proposal for the new regional financing, Junts reaffirmed what it had been saying in recent months: who opposes the model agreed with Esquerra because it is not an economic agreement for CataloniaWithout the support of at least the Junts party, the agreement reached by the Socialists and Republicans will be worthless when it reaches Congress, where it will also face the certain opposition of the PP and Vox. Therefore, a two-pronged operation has been launched from Ferraz Street in Madrid and Calàbria Street in Barcelona to change the minds of the Junts leaders: on the one hand, they are being pressured ("When the time comes, they will have to decide whether the resources go into the pockets of Catalans or whether they keep the Ministry of Finance," immediately); and, on the other hand, attempts are being made to persuade them. The president of ERC himself explained this Monday that he has already contacted the Junts leader, Carles Puigdemont, to travel to Waterloo as soon as possible. From Moncloa Palace, the Spanish president, Pedro Sánchez, has also pledged to "go to the extreme" to change Junts' minds. "I appeal to them to think about the citizens," he added. It's a carbon copy of the message. to which the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, transferred, And that's what the Republicans and the Comuns repeated after meeting with the head of the Catalan government on Friday at the Palau de la Generalitat.

The Barcelona Provincial Council has the fourth-largest public budget after the Generalitat (Catalan Government), Barcelona City Council, and the Metropolitan Area (Metropolitan Area), but it often goes unnoticed in the public eye. The 2024 budget was €1,243.87 million and consists of several items, including transfers to local and private entities, which represent 42.23% of the total: €525.31 million. These resources include discretionary subsidies, which in 2024 amounted to €94.5 million, a figure that has multiplied fivefold compared to the previous year. ARA has analyzed the use of this money, which the provincial body allocates by hand, that is, based on political will: of the 61.8 million euros that go to local authorities, almost 40% (36.96%) is concentrated in just two regions, Alt Penedès and Anoia, according to data provided by the Provincial Council VII of the budget (capital transfers). Within these regions, the majority of the resources are received by the municipalities of the Junts party.