Soler demands stable and permanent financing of public services

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The Minister of Finance and Economic Model, Vicent Soler, has stated that «the Valencian Community censures the disloyalty of the central government that proposes a unilateral distribution of the deficit that damages basic services, which are those provided by the autonomous communities. Soler made these statements after the meeting of the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council which took place yesterday in Madrid.

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«We cannot accept an opaque distribution of the deficit like the one that has been Email Data proposed to us, because it is not explained to us how this vertical distribution is carried out and how spending is assigned to each administration», the counselor has assured.

In this meeting, the Valencian Community has voted against the deficit ceiling proposed by the Government for the period 2018-2020, which places the deficit limit for next year at 0.3% and 0 .0% for 2019 and 2020. «The Valencian Community has positioned itself against because the deficit ceiling and the vertical distribution carried out by the ministry is another example of institutional disloyalty towards the composite State , which is the Spanish State, where the autonomous communities are an important part because they are the ones who provide citizens with the most basic and essential services.

«That the Government of Spain unilaterally establishes an asymmetrical distribution without giving explanations, without responding to any objective criteria, not even one as basic as the distribution of public spending between administrations, means that it does not "They understand that we are in a fully constitutional decentralized model," , said Soler.




«In the Valencian Community -explained Soler–

The Minister of Finance and Economic Model has explained that it is a problem for citizens, that it is those who need hospitals, schools or dependency, and «however, the money does not arrive . In a responsible State, in Western Europe, these services must have permanent, stable and calm financing, because ultimately it affects citizens, and this is not happening because of the current system », has said.

At the meeting, a change in the vertical distribution of the deficit in favor of the autonomous communities was proposed, so that the relative weight and nature of the services provided by the autonomous communities, which are those who manage fundamental public services, are taken into account.