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| A dozen large Spanish cities of different political signs join their voices to demand "from the FEMP and the Ministry of Finance the rectification of immediate form of the terms of your agreement "| "A historic meeting, in which coherence and dialogue have prevailed over ideological and territorial interests." This is how the mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, described the telematic meeting held today in which a dozen large Spanish cities of different political signs have joined their voices to demand "the FEMP and the Ministry of Finance immediately rectify the terms of their agreement, as well as the initiation of new negotiations that allow establishing criteria for the distribution of funds based on equality and solidarity ”.In a joint statement, the mayors have expressed their rejection "of the agreement between the FEMP and the Ministry of Finance that violates the financial autonomy of local entities, entails the seizure of municipal surpluses and proposes to exclude municipalities that do not have a remainder of the distribution of funds from the General State Budgets.
They have also agreed to request an immediate meeting with the Ministry of Finance to rethink state aid to municipalities."The Covid does not discriminate, and the law cannot discriminate, especially when it is an extraordinary and urgent law that what it intends is the reactivation of economic and social activity at this time," said the Murcian councilor, who added that "the Real Decree approved divides the Spanish.
The Government of the nation, through the PGE, contributes 5,000 million euros to face this crisis and that amount is not going to be distributed with criteria in which we may or may not agree, it is that there will be a part of the population that will receive zero, nothing.
This is an unsustainable situation, which violates the principles of equality and solidarity typical of advanced societies ”."If those 5,000 million euros, which come from the taxes of all Spaniards, were distributed with equitable criteria depending on the population, the city of Murcia would correspond to 47 million euros.
That would solve the 2020 and 2021 budgets and gives us the economic capacity to face the health crisis, ”said José Ballesta.General interest and common good“Politics is the addition of wills to achieve collective ends.
That is the policy with capital letters, that of advanced societies, which pursues the defense of the common good and the general interest ", stressed Ballesta, who stressed that" today mayors of different political signs have taken a walk through the neighborhood of coherence and we have put into practice the true dialogue, which is the one that occurs between those different from you, since the opposite is to listen to the echo of your own voice ”."This group of mayors has put aside their ideological identity and their territorial origin in favor of the defense of the general interest and the common good," stressed the mayor of Murcia.Joint statementIn the joint communiqué signed by the mayors, it is stated that they will request “an immediate meeting with the Ministry of Finance to rethink state aid to municipalities, after the approval of“ Royal Decree-Law 27/2020, of August 4, of financial measures, of an extraordinary and urgent nature, applicable to local entities ”.They also request "to reduce the financial limitations imposed on the municipalities by eliminating the spending rule, the concept of deficit and stability, at least, by 2021, to advance in a new financing system for local entities that improves the current one and define access to European financing for city councils with respect to the funds allocated to Spain amounting to 140,000 million euros ”.As noted, they demand “the FEMP and the Ministry of Finance immediately rectify the terms of their agreement, as well as the initiation of new negotiations that allow the establishment of criteria for the distribution of funds based on equality and solidarity, as has already been done with all the autonomous communities through the fund of 16,000 million euros enabled by the Government of Spain ”.They have also requested “the support of all the political groups represented in the Congress of Deputies and in the Senate, which we ask to reject the agreement adopted between the FEMP and the Ministry of Finance and to defend the right of all citizens to be helped equally by the State, regardless of the municipality in which they live ”.ParticipantsIn the telematic conference, which will continue in September, the mayors of Bilbao (Juan Mari Aburto Rique –PNV-), Cádiz (José María González Santos –We can-), Granada (Luis Salvador García –Ciudadanos-), Lleida ( Miquel Pueyo Paris –Esquerra Republicana-), Murcia (José Ballesta –PP-), Madrid (José Luis Martínez Almedia –PP-), Pontevedra (Miguel Anxo Fernández –Bloque Nacionalista Galego-), Reus (Carles Pellicer –Junts-), Santa Cruz de Tenerife (José Manuel Bermúdez Esparza-Canary Coalition-) and Zaragoza (Jorge Azcón Navarro -PP-).
It also adheres to.
agreement signed by the mayor of the Valencia City Council.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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