The spokesperson criticizes that Rajoy’s PP did not do so while he governed with an absolute majority
MADRID, 3 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The minister spokesperson for the Government, Isabel Rodríguez, has asked the PP to join the “great reform of the State” that involves modifying the current regional financing model, so that equality between the Autonomous Communities is guaranteed. “A person from Extremadura must have the same services, the same response from the State, as a Basque, a Catalan or a man from La Mancha”, she has proclaimed.
This was expressed this Friday in an interview on Canal Extremadura Radio, collected by Europa Press, in which he pointed out that the debate on the reform of regional financing has been “delayed” since 2014, criticizing that it was not carried out by then Prime Minister, the ‘popular’ Mariano Rajoy.
Asked why this reform is still pending, the Minister of Territorial Policy pointed to the Rajoy Executive, stating that it “should” have “promoted that change and it did not happen” despite the fact that he governed “with an absolute majority”.
In contrast, Rodríguez has expressed that the current government of Pedro Sánchez is taking steps in the “right direction” for “greater social and territorial cohesion” in the country, in compliance with “the constitutional principles of solidarity between territories and equality between Spanish people”.
Thus, the spokesperson for the Executive has defended that “an Extremaduran must have the same services, the same response from the State, as a Basque, a Catalan or a man from La Mancha”.
And he has stressed the need to attend to the “diversity” of the country in geographical and demographic matters, at the same time that he has advocated materializing the “great change” of financing, which has to be done -he has claimed- through the “union” and knowing that each party has to “make resignations to reach a common agreement”.
“Unfortunately we have had a legislature where we have not been able to count on the main opposition party and this has been one of the great stumbling blocks in a reform of regional and local financing in our country,” he said.
Rodríguez has stressed that the PP “has to be counted on” for this reform as it is a “State” matter and has made those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo ugly who have not supported the Government in bad times for the country such as the pandemic or the economic consequences of the war in Ukraine. “In short, we regret it but we will continue working and it is a firm commitment from this Government”, he concluded.
