The PP assures that Rufián's 155 coins are now 15,000 million to buy 7 votes

The PP's fight against the amnesty is not going to make it forget other aspects of the agreements reached between the PSOE and the PP, especially the 15,000 million euros that Catalonia will receive to alleviate its debt.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
02 November 2023 Thursday 04:21
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The PP assures that Rufián's 155 coins are now 15,000 million to buy 7 votes

The PP's fight against the amnesty is not going to make it forget other aspects of the agreements reached between the PSOE and the PP, especially the 15,000 million euros that Catalonia will receive to alleviate its debt. After learning of the agreement, the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, recalled that this has resulted in the 155 silver coins with which the spokesperson for the Catalan Republicans in Congress, Gabriel Rufian, complained in 2017 about the actions of Puigdemont.

"The 155 silver coins that Rufián was talking about have become 15,000 million euros that they are going to pay to buy his investiture and that we are going to pay from the pockets of all Spaniards," said the number two of the PP, for whom Sánchez "has mortgaged the equality of Spaniards, the rule of law and the resources that guarantee an equal minimum for all Spaniards"

This transfer represents, for Cuca Gamarra, "one more step in Sánchez's weakness, which the independentists know, and who know that they will achieve everything they set out to do." He criticized that he allies himself "with those who want the worst for Spain", and does not hesitate to "spend 15,000 million to buy the seven ERC votes, which will be paid with the money of all Spaniards."

In this criticism he agreed with the Andalusian president, Juanma Moreno, who demanded for Andalusia the same money that Catalonia will receive for this agreement. "Sánchez forgives the independence movement 15,000 million euros of debt plus 1,300 million of interest." The Andalusian president maintains that his community "is well managed and does not need debt forgiveness," but claims 17.8 billion, "equivalent by population to Sánchez's transfer to ERC and Junts."

The accounts for the amount requested by Andalusia are based on the fact that those 16.3 billion euros will come from the money of all Spaniards and that is why it demands the same treatment. This money, according to sources from the Junta de Andalucía, "is equivalent to a remission of 2,099 euros per inhabitant", according to the latest data from the Catalan census published in the INE. That money multiplied by the population of Andalusia means 17.8 billion claimed by Juanma Moreno.

Furthermore, the same sources assured, "we maintain the demand for the temporary compensation fund to recover the 15,000 million by which the current system has harmed Andalusia with respect to the Spanish average since 2009."

Cuca Gamarra has added this criticism to those that the PP has been making for the amnesty and the self-determination referendum in which, the general secretary of the PP stressed, which Junqueras has not forgotten in the presentation of the agreement, with which he concludes that "ERC has brought the PSOE to its knees" and is not satisfied "and reiterates after the amnesty, the referendum, because it knows that with Sánchez it can achieve it."

Cuca Gamarra also wonders that if ERC has obtained 15,000 million, rodalies, the amnesty and the referendum, then, "What is Puigdemont going to achieve?" He wonders if "is he going to be satisfied with just being able to return to Spain, or are we going to see more transfers?"