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Government Sees Opening With Junts to Pass Spain’s Regional Financing Overhaul

Junts’ plan to file a full-text alternative keeps talks alive on a bill the executive aims to send to Congress before summer.

Overview

  • After a pact with ERC, the proposal would add about €4.686 billion to Catalonia’s resources and write off €17.104 billion of its FLA debt, while nearly €21 billion in extra funding and more than €83 billion in total FLA relief are projected for general‑regime regions.
  • Junts will register an amendment to the entirety with an alternative text rather than a simple veto, a move the government interprets as leaving room to negotiate the financing law and the debt write‑off.
  • Party sources in Junts call the model insufficient, pressing for a Basque‑style concierto, guarantees of ordinality, and calculations based on real population rather than adjusted population.
  • The PP and Vox plan to vote against the initiatives, yet ministers argue PP regional presidents would opt in if approved because the measures bring additional resources.
  • Vice President María Jesús Montero says fiscal balances will be published after reviewing the Generalitat’s figures, and some actors view the potential return of Carles Puigdemont under amnesty as a factor that could shape Junts’ stance.