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Montero Presses Case for Regional Funding Overhaul, Challenges PP to Offer Alternative

She highlights €5.7 billion a year for Andalusia ahead of a PP summit in Zaragoza.

Overview

  • Finance minister María Jesús Montero criticized PP regional leaders for talking without submitting concrete proposals and said the party simply rejects the government's plan.
  • The proposal, presented by the central government, allocates €21 billion for health, education and dependency services to be managed by the autonomous communities.
  • Montero said Andalusia would receive about €5.7 billion per year including a compensation fund, asserting the per‑inhabitant financing gap would narrow from €1,500 to €477.
  • Andalusian economy chief Carolina España condemned the plan as favoring Catalonia, claimed Andalusians would receive €389 less per person, and accused Montero of acting like an agent of independentism.
  • PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo has convened a Zaragoza meeting with PP regional presidents on financing, and Montero linked engineering firm Ayesa’s move to the Basque Country to the Andalusian government’s inaction.