It is “urgent” and “obligatory”, but also a way to convince Together for Catalonia (Junts) to support an investiture of Pedro Sánchez. This is how Spain’s acting finance minister, María Jesús Montero, has expressed herself about the reform of the financing system for the country’s autonomous communities. This Tuesday she confirmed that the Socialists (PSOE) not only intend to work on this issue during the next legislature – if they succeed in forming a new government – but also, that it could be a hook that will help to fish up the necessary votes from Catalan pro-independence MPs in order to keep Pedro Sánchez in the Moncloa government palace.
In an interview with Spanish public television, the PSOE’s number two reiterated that this reform is “an urgency that must be presented” and that it thus appears in her party’s roadmap for the coming years. But, at the same time, she confirmed that it’s an issue that could be considered as a seductive element for Junts, in order to obtain the Catalan party’s support for Pedro Sánchez in the investiture vote. “We already tried it in the previous legislature, but the necessary climate with the autonomous communities did not exist, because they had maximalist positions”, explained the finance minister.
