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 sostenibilidad de la Administración local), adopted pursuant to Organic Law No. 2/2012 of 27 April on budgetary stability and financial sustainability (Ley orgánica 2/2012, de 27 de abril, de estabilidad presupuestaria y sostenibilidad financiera), implementing Article 135 of the Spanish Constitution, that limit the powers of local authorities, control the cost of services and require to give priority to private economic activity.

7. Refugees

To address the serious humanitarian situation faced by refugees, the future government shall create a framework for relations with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to give reception and asylum to the largest number of refugees, beyond the decisions taken in this regard by the Spanish government.

8. Right to abortion 

Regarding the right to abortion, the future government shall be governed by the provisions of Law No. 17/2015 of 21 July on equality between women and men (Llei 17/2015, del 21 de juliol, d'igualtat efectiva de dones i homes).

9. Financing of a social emergency plan and debt management

In order to free up resources to provide financial backing for a social emergency plan, the future government shall establish, amongst other measures, negotiating tracks to reduce the debt burden as a share of total spending.

The future government shall promote, as a priority, the renegotiation of all structured finance operations, separating payments which compensate for a service (investment and maintenance) from excessive payments in view of current interest and inflation rates. In addition, the future government shall ask holders of an administrative concession or a right to use the land to redefine structured contracts, by transforming the depreciation of investments into ordinary funding through public debt and by eliminating excessive cost of capital.

This transformation, which should allow for a reduction in the costs borne by the Generalitat which may be used to finance the social emergency plan, shall be accompanied by a thorough review of budget spending programmes in order to evaluate and verify their utility at a time when addressing social emergency has become the main priority for the expenditures of the Generalitat, as expressed in the aforementioned emergency plan. Savings derived from programme review must be fully allocated to the social emergency plan.