Ten mayors from eight parties reject in a document the agreement of Hacienda that allows municipalities to use their remnants and demand that the fund of 5,000 million be distributed among all, not just among those with liquidity.
The participants in the meeting -the mayors of Bilbao (PNV), Granada (Cs), Cádiz (Podemos), Lleida (ERC), Pontevedra (BNG), Reus (PdeCat), Santa Cruz de Tenerife (CC) and Madrid, Murcia and Zaragoza, the three of the PP- warn that the parties they represent add up to more than 180 deputies in Congress, so the validation of the royal decree-law seems very difficult.
The PSOE, the only party that supports it
Speaking to Efe, the PP spokesman in the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP), Jorge Azcón, who has coordinated the meeting, has warned that if the decree is processed as a bill, the deadlines will be so tight that the money will not reach the cities this year.
And if it is repealed in the Congressional vote, since at the moment he only has the support of the PSOEAzcón has wondered “what happens to the municipalities that have already transferred their remnants to the State to receive the part that corresponds to them the 5,000 million euros.”
The municipalities that want to access the 5,000 million fund They have until September 15 to transfer their savings to the State and thus enter into the money distribution.
The royal decree-law must be validated within 30 days after its publication in the BOE, so it should take place, at the latest, in early September.
The Treasury proposal went ahead last Monday in the Governing Board of the FEMP with the only vote of the PSOE, which resulted in a tie, which undid the casting vote of the president of the Federation and socialist councilor, Abel Caballero.
Upset also of mayors with savings
For Azcón, the discomfort with the Treasury agreement not only comes from the municipalities that do not have remnants and that, in his opinion, the decree leaves to their fate, but also from mayors that do have savings but consider this text “unfair” and “incomplete”.
This is the case, he said, of the municipalities of Bilbao, Madrid or Santa Cruz de Tenerife that attend the telematic meeting ready to support the joint manifesto, and that they will send it to the Ministry of Finance.
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