Here are 10 concrete points to consider regarding funding:

Today we have a piece of news with substance and two anecdotes that have become newsworthy in the last few hours.

The agreement on the singular financing model agreed upon by the PSC and ERC parties on the occasion of President Illa's investiture placed great importance on achieving regional financing that respected the principle of ordinality for the Generalitat of Catalonia; that is, that no autonomous community would receive fewer public resources than the communities that had contributed the least. Implicitly, it also means forgoing receiving more public resources than the communities that had contributed the most. The principle is simple and can be calculated very well. It involves ensuring that contributions of public resources to the central state treasury do not change order when they are redistributed. The concept public resources It is essential. During the 2009 negotiation of the financing model, and when Minister Solbes was still responsible for the economy of President Rodríguez Zapatero's government, Solbes reassured him about the application of the principle of ordinality, which the Generalitat had so strongly demanded, assuring him that per capita GDP would not change after the implementation of the financing model. This was a mixture of apples and pears, given that private resources do not come into play when discussing ordinality in the distribution of public resources. The contributions of public resources must be compared with their redistribution. Redistribution is progressive when the differences between the largest and smallest contributors narrow, but this is not what happens in Spain: the autonomous communities with the largest contributions remain far behind in public funding compared to many regions that have contributed the least.

The Spanish and Catalan governments disagree on a key point of the new financing system: the ordinality criterion, which was included in the ERC-PSC agreement to invest Salvador Illa and which was endorsed by the PSC. Now the Spanish government is backing away and stating that it does not accept it, because it is something that should be discussed among all the autonomous communities. But what exactly is it, and what would the application of the ordinality criterion mean?