La Moncloa is determined to present the budgets for 2027 despite not having support in the Congress of Deputies. And, for this reason, it has already begun to take the necessary steps to bring the accounts to the Spanish chamber this autumn. The Minister of Finance, Arcadi España, met yesterday with all the Finance Ministers of the autonomous communities and conveyed to them the spending limits foreseen by the State government for regional and municipal governments throughout next year. They will have the possibility to spend up to 4% more, and this new spending rule will apply to all administrations, although it maintains the deficit margin for autonomous administrations at 0.1% of Spanish gross domestic product (GDP, the indicator that measures the size of an economy).

At yesterday's meeting between Vice President Montero and the finance ministers of all the autonomous communities, we heard yet another of those phrases that will go down in the anthology of what used to be called anti-Catalanism and is now more accurately described as Catalanophobia. The honor belongs to the finance minister of Andalusia, Carolina España:

"Caviar for Catalans and a set menu for the rest of Spain." PP councilors appeared indignant outside the Ministry of Finance, railing against the proposed new financing model which, they claim, only grants "privileges" to Catalans. parade of statements This shows that it will not be easy for the Spanish government to implement the new model in which, according to regional PP leaders, Oriol Junqueras decides where the resources of the people of Murcia, Extremadura, Madrid, Andalusia, etc., go. However, the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, has reserved a point for the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council: has offered to the communities that, if they find the new financing model so unfair (even though they all gain slightly more than now), they can opt out and remain under the current system. That is, it will be voluntary. Although this was also the case in 2009, Montero's statement this Wednesday is a challenge to the PP.