The problem, according to the sources consulted by

 ECD , is that a certain consensus with the PSOE would be needed , and even in the PP the Government would not have it easy because it would have to impose discipline in its ranks. It is taken for granted that there would be a lot of internal resistance. Thus, the merger of municipalities, by chance, is ruled out. In any case, these will be voluntary mergers and these will be minimal, difficult, if not impossible. The Local Regime Law Guindos' idea of ​​applying a merger template, as in banks, is neither feasible nor politically easy. In the Treasury and Public Administrations they believe that Guindos plays it by ear, since it has a 'macro' vision of everything and the local and provincial territory is "politically complicated." But what can be done now is to bring the town councils and provincial councils to heel, ruthlessly applying the template of the Local Regime Law to them . The idea is that they do not provide more services than those required by law, and which are proportional in cost and dimension according to the size of the population, in sections of 50,000, 20,000 and 5,000 inhabitants, and those of more than 250,000 residents.

 Eight basic services The Public Administration team believes that, if they are forced to stick to what they have to do, not a single thing more, and with adjusted costs, more than half of the reform has been achieved. “And if some municipalities want to continue  Qatar Mobile Number List with improper services, they should pay for them with more taxes. We will see if the neighbors admit it.” With the law in hand, municipalities only have to provide these services : garbage collection, street cleaning, lighting, drinking water, sewage, cemeteries, street paving, and food and beverage control. There are 8 basic services, not 15 or 20, as some municipalities have, a long etcetera in which the money of many corporations goes. Most of these 'improper' powers of local entities belong to the State or the autonomous communities. Two tools The Government has the handle and the skillet to take them on the path. First, through financing money to pay debts , the 35,000 million from the operation to pay suppliers. Second, with budget stability plans that prevent them from returning to their old ways of spending more than they earn, and providing services that do not correspond to them and that no one has asked of them. 

At the moment, the Treasury has already given them a serious warning: it has withheld funds from 434 municipalities to pay municipal debts. Then he will have them under permanent surveillance to see if they comply with the stability plans. Control debt Beteta would like to have budget execution data month by month, but he knows that this is very difficult and will settle for having it quarterly. All in all, you will always have the key to the financing and transfers tap . With large municipalities, the Treasury's definitive weapon is debt control. Without authorization they will not be able to go into debt. With Madrid it has already had its pluses and minuses, since its city council accumulates a debt greater than 20% of all those in Spain.As El Confidencial Digital has learned , the leader of the Catalan 'popular' has promoted a series of measures, which will be presented in the regional congress of the PP itself and in the coming months in the Parliament, which defend a political line very different from the of the current national leadership of the party . Leaders of the PP in Catalonia highlight that, in the next program, " the uniqueness of our region with respect to other Autonomous Communities will be defended , leaving the door open to a different treatment by the State, defending the asymmetry in autonomous Spain." This new position of the party, far from the dictates of Genoa, includes the incorporation of the 'senyera' and the acronym 'C' of Catalonia to the logo of the formation , which will have its official presentation at the Congress held in Barcelona this weekend.