The government delegate in Cantabria, Pedro Casares Hontañón, has asked the president of Cantabria, María José Sáenz de Buruaga, to rectify his intention to reject the cancellation of 809 million euros of regional debt, whose bill was approved on Tuesday, September 2, by the Council of Ministers.
Otherwise, Casares has assured that Buruaga “will have to give explanations of why it rejects a measure that supposes the removal of 809 million euros, more than 24 percent of the public debt of Cantabria”.
“He is going to have to explain why he does not want us to have a debt of 809 million euros, with its corresponding interest and amortizations and that this money can be used for social policies that benefit the lives of the Cantabrians and Cantabrians,” said the government delegate in the autonomous community.
If he does not rectify, the government delegate stressed, “he will have to explain to the Cantabrians why he rejects such extraordinary news for Cantabria, which would also be one of the communities most benefited by this measure.”
In addition, the government delegate pointed out that the removal of the debt “is an extraordinary news that will allow us Cantabrians and Cantabrians to save a money, 800 million euros, and the payment of interest on this debt, which the government of Cantabria will be able to allocate to other items that will improve the lives of Cantabrians and Cantabrians.
“There is no grievance here, because all the autonomous communities of Spain are going to benefit from this measure, therefore, it is extraordinary news to advance the economic and territorial social cohesion of our country,” said the government delegate.
In the case of the Autonomous Community, debt cancellation, which reaches 24.4% of the total, is five points higher than the average in Spain, which is around 19%.
“Here it is not a question, as the president of Cantabria says, of biting the hook”, said Casares, who at this point has asked “what does it mean by that expression of biting the hook, if it is a measure that is going to benefit our land, Cantabria, unprecedented”.
On the other hand, Casares wondered “what does the president of Cantabria mean when she asks that we all be treated equally? What you are asking is for Cantabria to receive less funding? Because Cantabria is the community that receives the most funding and if the president asks that we all be treated equally, what she is asking is for the funding of Cantabria to be reduced.”
In this sense, he explained that Cantabria is the best financed autonomous community in Spain because there is no other that receives more resources from the State per inhabitant.
Specifically, in the account deliveries planned for 2026, Casares stressed that “it will be the year with the largest financing in history for Cantabria, since we are going to receive 2677 million euros, which is 8% more than in 2025, the largest increase in the whole state”.
“If we’re already the most funded community, we’re going to do it even more,
This year.” Since President Pedro Sánchez has ruled, Casares said, Cantabria has received 4502 million more than with the government of Mariano Rajoy. “Cantabria is the best financed autonomous community in Spain, there is no other that receives more funding than Cantabria”
Casares has affirmed that Cantabria “is still on time” and has demanded that the president of the autonomous government “defend, as is its obligation, the interests of the Cantabrians and Cantabrians, and not those of the Popular Party, and Alberto Núñez Feijoó”.
“I ask the president of Cantabria, to be the president of Cantabria, and to defend the interests of Cantabria and not the partisan interests of the Popular Party because Feijoo and Tellado already said it yesterday, that all the presidents of the autonomous communities of the PP are going to be that, presidents of the PP and they are going to follow the dictation of the Popular Party and not the interests of their autonomous communities,” the government delegate demanded.
Moreno Bonilla and the newspaper library
In the same way, Casares said President Buruaga “has not been able to choose a worse partner” to announce his decision to reject the debt relief than the president of Andalusia “because the proposals for regional financing that Cantabria and Andalusia defend are incompatible”.
Andalusia, explained Casares, requests that the new model of regional financing meet the criterion of the population and Cantabria requests that we do so for the effective cost of services. “The truth is that President Buruaga has not been right in her liado for the photo,” he said.
He also mentioned, attending the newspaper library, that the president of Andalusia said that he would only accept a debt relief if they condoned 17.8 billion euros “and the government of Spain condoned him, not 17.8 billion euros, but 18.7 billion euros, more than what the president of Andalusia asked for, and now rejects it”.
Therefore, “we see that for the autonomous presidents Buruaga and Moreno Bonilla, this will not defend the interests of the autonomous communities, but only defend the interests of the PP and Feijóo”, lamented Casares.
Finally, the delegate of the government of Spain in Cantabria, Pedro Casares, has asked the president María José Sáenz de Buruaga “to defend the interests of the Cantabrians and the Cantabrians and not the interests of his party and to rectify recapacite”, reminding him that “it is on time” because we are at the beginning of the process of processing the preliminary bill for the cancellation of the debt of the Autonomous Communities.