Ayuso accuses the Government of designing regional financing to "buy Illa the elections"

The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, accused the Government this Monday of using the reform of the autonomous financing system for political purposes and assured that the proposal seeks to "buy the elections" for the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa. During an informative breakfast held in Madrid, the popular leader described the Executive as a "trickster" and denounced that the new model favors Catalonia to the detriment of the rest of the autonomous communities.

Ayuso criticized that the Government presented the proposal "on Friday afternoon, with Spain at 40 degrees," considering that the Executive intends for the debate to take place "on the eve of the August holidays." In that sense, she criticized that the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council will address the matter next July 29 despite the fact that, as she stated, the initiative is rejected by the majority of the communities under the common regime.

The Madrid president has maintained that the new distribution would imply preferential treatment for Catalonia and has assured that the community would receive 22% of the resources of the financing system, despite being "the third richest region in Spain." "It is evident that it is a mockery," she affirmed, before accusing the Executive of trying to "devise a new financing system to buy wills," in a strategy that, in her opinion, seeks to politically strengthen Salvador Illa's Govern.

During her speech, Ayuso also defended that Madrid bears increasing pressure on public services due to population growth, while the Government, she said, continues to "endorse the pro-independence debt." In addition, she reproached Catalonia for maintaining spending structures such as embassies or high public officials that, in her opinion, do not exist in the Community of Madrid.

The popular leader insisted that autonomous financing affects all citizens and not just territorial administrations. "We are talking about the money of all Spaniards. We are talking about the financing of their public services," she pointed out, before warning that communities like Madrid "cannot take any more" with the model proposed by the Executive.

Finally, Ayuso has accused the Government of promoting a fiscal policy aimed at limiting the tax autonomy of the communities and has criticized what she considers an attempt to impose "in a sectarian and arbitrary manner" a model that penalizes regions that choose to lower taxes.