スペインのCatalunya, Andalucia, Canarias, Extremadura, Castilla y Leonの自治州政府は、2013年の財政赤字削減目標を軽減するように財務省に要求
Cataluña y otras comunidades exigen a Hacienda que suavice el objetivo de déficit
El Gobierno admite la dificultad de intervenir las autonomías que incumplan
Jesús Sérvulo González / Lluís Pellicer Madrid / Barcelona 26 DIC 2012 - 21:39 CET
Catalonia and other communities require Treasury to soften the deficit target
The Government admits the difficulty of intervening in breach autonomy
Sérvulo Jesus Gonzalez / Lluís Pellicer Madrid / Barcelona 26 DIC 2012 - 21:39 CET
The autonomous communities have come to year end in smoke. Some even had to delay the payment of Social Security contributions into their coffers because only grow cobwebs. Experiencing financial troubles have taken a group of them, with Catalonia in the lead, to demand the Government to review its budgetary stability objectives for 2013 and allow them to soften the pace of adjustment. Threaten to repeat the mutiny staged in the Council of Fiscal and Financial Policy (CPFF), the organ of dialogue of Finance and communities-of last May, when Catalonia, Andalusia, the Canary Islands, Extremadura and Castilla y León opposed to the objective of deficit this year.
Regional governments have put the scissors this year to tackle the deficit. In 2011 were largely responsible for the budget variance of Spain recorded a deficit of 3.4% of gross domestic product (GDP) - and the Ministry of Finance closed fist to limit it to 1.5% was committed to Brussels . In 2013 there will be another twist. Autonomy will have to reduce the budget gap more. The new deficit target is 0.7% of GDP, half that this year. Some believe it will be impossible to get.
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So Catalonia and other communities will require Treasury to soften stability objectives of 2013 (the debt ceiling and the deficit). CPFF expect the next to be held in the first weeks of January, to raise the IRS to loosen the pressure. Especially when Brussels negotiates a year grant to the Government to reduce the deficit of the whole government.
The department heads Minister Cristobal Montoro postponed any decision pending the closing data of 2012. Treasury believes that one of the great problems of the Spanish economy is funding. And the deficit aggravates the problem because governments absorb financial resources and limit the scope of the public sector. For now, Montoro seems unwilling to open his hand because markets are closed for the communities and can not even finance the deficit already accumulated. But I assume that communities will deviate a few tenths of the deficit target this year.
The President of the Generalitat, Artur Mas, has already announced that it will meet the goal next year without substantially cutting the welfare state. The Catalan Executive estimates that the adjustment to a deficit of 0.7% would amount to 4,000 million, which considered "impossible". Mas said in his inauguration that the deficit deal "makes no sense" and that pugnaría change it. But it must do so without the strained relations continue to deteriorate Montoro, by dependence on the state Catalonia Autonomous Liquidity Fund (FLA), although the rationing of that money has been struggling to Catalan Government for payment of payroll , contracted hospitals, social organizations and even to pay their contributions to Social Security.
Assumed to be deflection, Catalan executive order is that the deficit does not exceed 2% (vs 1.5% expected) and demonstrate that it is on the right track. In the last few weeks has privatized Aigües Ter-Llobregat and Tabasa, which will report some 1,500 million euros.
Treasury holds regular discussions with all communities to follow up on the objectives of stability. In recent weeks have intensified contacts with the most remolonas as Catalonia, Valencia, Andalusia, Castilla-La Mancha and Murcia. Technicians have detected deviations ministry plans financial balance (PEF) and suggested regional and agreed new measures for regional governments to approach the deficit ceiling.
Adjustments
The objectives of the regions for 2012 pass bring the public deficit at 1.5% of GDP. In 2013 will reduce to 0.7%.
The deficit of the communities in the third quarter stood at 11.978 million, 1.14% of GDP, compared to 2.20% for the same period of 2012.
Communities with higher deficits were Murcia (2.23%), Navarra (2.04%, for accounting purposes), Andalucía (1.63%) and Valencia (1.60%). The Basque Country and Asturias closed the period with a surplus.
The Valencia hoping to get a good cushion of money selling property, but the property market is dry and has delayed plans of President Alberto Fabra. To compensate Finance have promised to compensate with new cuts. Catalonia, meanwhile, has agreed that privatization is counted as income, 2012 but has not yet entered a single euro for it.
Throughout the year Montoro has launched the message that all had to meet strict budgetary duties. He has threatened to intervene in the most delayed, according to the timetable set by the Stability Law. But in recent weeks has softened his speech, at least in private contacts with regional managers. Despite the threats, the difficulty in Hacienda support (political and economic, in Spain and abroad) of a community intervention. They believe that politics would cost too much for Spain and huge for the affected territory.
So in recent weeks have nuanced warnings: you will have to file for breach FLA and assimilate the harsh conditions required. More rebels threaten to turn off the tap of state aid. The areas with the most problems have come to the fund that the Government has put in place to alleviate its liquidity problems. In 2013, inject more money into this instrument and will require further cuts to those requesting assistance. So make sure you do not loose the pace of cuts.
So far communities have cut, especially in investment. They greased their internal operations by firing 130,000 employees, but in 2013 will have to scrape the bone and into the big cuts in health and education.
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