The PP presidents accuse the PSOE of ‘replacing’ autonomy with an ‘asymmetrical confederal model’

The PP regional presidents have signed a joint manifesto against the single financing of Catalonia, warning that the agreements between the PSOE and the independentists aim to “replace” the autonomous state with an “asymmetrical confederal model”: “It is an illegitimate attempt to change our Constitution and our state model through the back door”.

The twelve popular ‘barons’ meet the president of their party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.

The barons recognize the “particularities” of each autonomous community in terms of financing, but reject “inequality and lack of solidarity.” On this point, they warn that the president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, and his partners “are not seeking to advance the autonomous state, but rather to destroy it and replace it with an asymmetric confederal model.”

They accuse the PSOE of “dynamizing” autonomy and the Ministry of Finance, in addition to “its capacity and constitutional mandate to guarantee solidarity.” “The total transfer of taxes would serve to finance a new independence process without borders, it would have to be paid for with large tax increases for the citizens of the rest of the communities and would confirm the non-existence of the State in Catalonia,” they add.

The PP ‘barons’ stress that “equality and solidarity are inalienable principles” of the autonomous state, and therefore they demand that the government take decisions “of this magnitude” in multilateral forums for all and “not in closed negotiations between parties that do not represent all of Spain or all of Catalonia”.

The Popular Party calls for “the formulation of a democratic response in all areas” within its reach, on which the communities agree, “in light of this illegitimate attempt to change the Constitution and the state model through the back door.”