The funding we deserve: we will not accept compromises or blackmail.

It is undeniable that the agreement between Esquerra and the PSOE has forced the Spanish government to make a move, which represents an opportunity: the current system, which has been outdated since 2014, is clearly against us and we must do everything possible to change it.

We are currently the second-largest contributor to the tax system: our tax revenue per capita is €3,248, 21% above the average. However, when it comes to receiving resources, the situation is reversed: we have fallen to tenth place, receiving €2,867 per capita, 1.5% below the average.

The Spanish government's proposal is not actually a new system; it is basically the current one with some tweaks, but the State is putting more money to be distributed, specifically 20.975 billion euros.

Of this increase, the Balearic Islands will receive €412 million; that is, 1.96% of the new funds. The problem is that we represent 2.53% of the population... so we're already at a disadvantage from the start: while each resident of Murcia will receive €757 and each resident of Andalusia €562 from the increased funding, the State will only return €334 more per Mallorcan to the Autonomous Community to pay for healthcare, education, and other services.

Clearly, we at MÉS per Mallorca advocate for full fiscal sovereignty to manage, collect, and regulate our taxes, just as the Basque Country and Navarre do with their economic agreements. However, while we remain part of the common regime, we had reached a major agreement with social organizations, employers' associations, unions, and political parties to ensure that the new financing system included some essential new calculation factors: the transient population, population growth, and the increased cost of living. Furthermore, we needed to ensure that insularity was given greater consideration, so that if we are among the top contributors, we are no longer among the last to receive (the so-called ordinality criterion).

The truth is that the Ministry's proposal does not include any of these elements. None. Absolutely none.

To begin with, insularity is losing ground: it goes from accounting for 0.6% (which was already insufficient) to 0.5%. This is a complete disservice. Furthermore, of all the 'territorial' criteria, it's the only one that isn't distributed evenly: regarding surface area, which will account for 1.6%, one square kilometer is the same in Algaida as in Talavera de la Reina; and population dispersion, which will account for 0.5% of the funding, is calculated the same in Formentera as in Teruel. But insularity isn't: 75% goes to the Canary Islands, and 25% to the Balearic Islands.

The State refuses to take into account the floating population, as if the tourists and temporary workers who come to the Balearic Islands didn't need roads, buses, trains, police... Nor does it consider population growth, as if more people didn't mean having to build more schools and health centers and hire more nurses and teachers.

Under the new system, the Balearic Islands would receive €3,201 per inhabitant, compared to an average of €3,388. This means they would go from being 1.5% below the average to 5.8% below it; from receiving €10 to receiving €13.

Failing to take the cost of living into account in a fundamental way condemns us to definitive impoverishment: the minister cannot understand (or perhaps she does, and doesn't care) that if we want to attract doctors or teachers here, they must be paid more than they would be in Guadalajara, because with the same salary they would live worse here, and the same must be taken into account.

Because receiving less than the rest is doubly unfair: a euro in the Balearic Islands is worth less than on the mainland. If €1,147 is transferred from the Balearic Islands to Extremadura for every citizen, the regional government will have €172,050 more per 150 inhabitants than the central government. With this amount, they can buy three homes in Don Benito for social housing, while with the same amount, the Balearic Islands Housing Institute (Ibavi) can't even buy a car.

Numbers can often be made to say whatever one wants; however, in reference to the new proposal for regional financing, there have been unacceptable exercises in justifying the situation, because the objective is that we end up more exploited and mistreated.

Therefore, now that we celebrate the beginning of the restoration of our self-government, let us resolve not to relinquish anything we deserve, nor to yield to any blackmail, but to forge a broad common front, both social and political. For once, we put the country before the party.