Overview
- At a Barcelona event, senior PP leaders and mayors released a declaration urging the government to open talks on local financing alongside the ongoing regional reform.
- The party cited a 2025 FEMP document as evidence of broad municipal consensus for a new funding model across political lines.
- PP representatives pressed for durable legal certainty to use budget surpluses and remanentes, criticizing a royal decree that limits expanded use to a single year.
- Leaders accused the central government of owing municipalities about €3 billion and, per their account, redirecting €1.3 billion to Defence at the expense of local budgets.
- Juan Bravo pledged that a PP government would unblock local financing reform in its first year, with no substantive government response reported in the coverage.