The president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García Page, the only socialist baron who managed to revalidate his absolute majority in the last March 28 elections, has warned that the negotiation currently taking place between Pedro’s emissaries Sánchez and the leader of Junts, a fugitive from Justice, to tie up the investiture, “one or the other will come out as a botifler for a part of Spain or for the whole”, and has emphasized that, in any case, “what is not can do is humiliate the country.”
Page considers that Carles Puigdemont “intends to humiliate the State as much as he can” and in that sense he has stressed that “what cannot be done is to turn white into black” because “what they (the independentistas) did was an outrage.” constitutional of enormous seriousness that has brought consequences of all kinds”.
In his opinion, what the Junts leader who fled from Justice intends goes far beyond “wanting to walk the streets of Girona again.” “What they are looking for,” he stressed, “is to try again, to return to another constitutional outrage because what they want is to end the Constitution.”
Page maintains that “it is legitimate to want independence” but “not in any way bypassing the Law.” And he adds: “Also, when they skip it and it suits them, what they demand is to change it.” The Castilian president of La Mancha insists that “the Constitution obliges the equality of all Spaniards and an exception to that principle of equality before the law must have constitutional scope and reflection.”
Regarding the pact reached between the PSOE and ERC under which it is agreed to forgive 15,000 million euros of debt to Catalonia, García-Page prefers for the moment to quarantine its scope. “Words now have a value of minutes. One thing is said today and the opposite can be said tomorrow.” However, he claims to trust the Government on this point “because the law requires that what is done be for everyone.” Although he immediately adds: “Until they change it.”
In this sense, he explains that if the State is willing to forgive 20% of the debt of the autonomies, his region would receive a reduction of 2,200 million euros, which would mean savings in interest payments of more than 250 million in the long term. .
Page recalls that the State has a scale that establishes which Communities are financed below and above the average. “Catalonia,” he points out, “is overfinanced, above 100%; Castilla-La Mancha, is underfinanced, at 94.8.” And he concludes: “For the Valencian Community, Andalusia, the Region of Murcia and Castilla-La Mancha, which are the autonomies that are objectively underfinanced, the reduction would have to be greater for the treatment to be fair.”
