Aragon would stop receiving 422 million with the elimination of depopulation and orography of regional financing

A total of 422 million euros. This is the figure that Aragon would stop receiving with the elimination of the criteria of depopulation and orography within the framework of autonomous financing.

Of this amount, about 320.9 million euros would correspond to the orography, while 101.1 million euros would be for depopulation. They are the initial calculations that have been made in the Department of Finance after yesterday a document was received from the central government in which the absence of sufficient consensus to contemplate these two criteria is aimed to contemplate these two criteria -Despoblation and Orography-, In regional financing.

These 422 million euros will stop receiving annually and is a figure that would be added to the 87 million euros that the Aragon government has been claiming in the field of depopulation, reaching 509 million euros.

“It is the worst time in history in regional financing. At 87 million this other injustice is added,” said Aragon President Jorge Azcón, during the press conference to carry out a first analysis of the document with the criteria of regional financing and its possible impact on Aragon.

“Not only does the central government deny our claim, but it pretends that the most unfair variables weigh in the financing model,” said Azcón, who has blamed this situation to the pacts with the independentistas, to the Catalan quota and debt. “They want the debts to be paid by Aragon” alluding, above all, the condonation is nothing more than mutualizing the debt, which would harm the Aragonese community by having to assume part of that of other autonomies. “The Catalan quota has to pay it and will be Aragon,” said Aragonese president.

With the criteria previously proposed in December 2021 by the Ministry of Finance, the Aragonese community benefited from autonomous financing but, with the elimination of depopulation and orography, it is harmed, since Aragon represents approximately 10% of the territory of Spain, but has so much 3% of the population. Some ratios with which it is more expensive to assume the provision of social services, health or education, among others. “The most important criteria are those that are eliminated,” he said.

Given this situation, Aragon will seek unanimity in its position in regional financing for what from the Aragonese government will start next week a round of contacts with the political parties of the community to explain the document sent from the Executive from the Executive central, that they are going to be sent today, and try to fix that common position that the community has been maintaining around these two criteria, waiting for no political formation to break that unit ..

These meetings will be individual in with each political formation and want to end before February 12, date on which the celebration of the Permanent Evaluation Technical Committee is planned

“We want to open a dialogue about what this regional financing proposal means for Aragon and public services,” said Azcón, who added that contacts will also be maintained with the social agents of Aragon.

“It is an insult to Aragon,” said Aragonese president, who has also considered an incongruity that there is a ministry of demographic challenge so that the depopulation and orography are not taken into account. “We are going to raise your voice. It is incomprehensible that the central government unilaterally decides on this depopulation variable that was previously.”

At the moment, these are the first steps before the initial valuation of the document in which other regional financing criteria such as fixed costs or dispersion are collected, among others, on which the Aragon government has not yet made any calculation or estimate . Nor has he done it on the impact he would have on other autonomies.

“The battle will last months,” says Azcón, who has not advanced new steps or contacts with other communities to set common positions or in the line of the meeting recently held with the president of Galicia, Alfonso Rueda, with which they resumed the spirit of Santiago’s statement.

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Aragon would stop receiving 422 million with the elimination of depopulation and orography of regional financing