Autonomous suffocation due to government paralysis

The pressing liquidity situation reported by some regional governments and local councils due to the failure to update advance payments makes it even more incomprehensible that the government has tried to prevent a debate on financing at the Conference of Presidents being held today in Barcelona .

Although the threat of a walkout by several regional leaders overcame Pedro Sánchez 's resistance to addressing an issue on which his hands are tied by his pacts with the separatists for his own investiture and that of Salvador Illa , there is little hope of reaching agreements on this critical issue for the normal functioning of regional administrations.

The €25 billion that regional governments and municipalities are demanding from the Ministry of Finance is vital for a healthcare system subject to exponential migration pressure and suffering from saturation due to a lack of professionals to fill numerous vacant positions.

At the extreme end, the Generalitat Valenciana , one of the worst endowed by the current system of regional financing, reports that it is suffering from a critical financial situation due to the delays by the department headed by María Jesús Montero in paying the amounts owed for excess revenue in 2024 and transferring the resources allocated for this year due to the Executive's inability to push through Congress the omnibus decree that included these payments.

In the midst of an institutional crisis following revelations of alleged schemes orchestrated by members of the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) against judges and police officers investigating corruption in his immediate circle, Sánchez intends to use the summit to try to regain the political initiative by announcing a historic increase in public investment in affordable housing . However, the urgent should not distract him from what is important.