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There has been no possibility, at the least for the second, to open a spot between the main PP barons who’ve met with Pedro Sánchez. Neither the president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alfonso Rueda, nor the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juan Manuel Moreno, of their conferences held this Friday in La Moncloa have obtained from the pinnacle of the Executive any provide relating to financing geared toward their autonomous communities. The absence of such a proposal has made it simpler for the favored leaders to not break the settlement sealed on the Popular Party summit held two weeks in the past in Madrid. A doc during which they dedicated themselves, underneath the gaze of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to not negotiate bilaterally singular fashions for his or her autonomous communities. Nor have they spoken about attainable debt forgiveness, a risk denied in flip by order of the chief of the PP.

Both barons have even expressed shock that Sánchez has not tried to make them take the bait by placing a test on the desk. And they’ve left the conferences chilly, with the sensation that the president was solely in search of his picture parading via La Moncloa. “I have not seen any proposals to divide anyone here either, there has been nothing beyond dialogue. Nothing that is profitable for our territories,” mentioned the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juan Manuel Moreno. “If we negotiate in some bilateral way the financing, even if it were a threat, no, because I do not believe that it is a solution,” defined Rueda, the primary of the 2 presidents of the PP to satisfy with the pinnacle of the Executive after the Basque lehendakari, Imanol Pradales.

The conferences, each lasting round an hour and a half, have handled an extended listing of calls for that each Rueda and Moreno have conveyed to Sánchez, targeted primarily on infrastructure and public providers of their communities. But additionally the categorical request – and in a face-to-face method – that the Government “cut off at the root” the singular financing promised for Catalonia and that it urgently tackle, at a multilateral desk, the reform of the autonomous financing system, which has been old-fashioned for ten years, and improve the transfers to the territories. The PP presidents request the convening of the Conference of Presidents for this function, however Sánchez has indicated that, though its celebration is “imminent”, it would deal with housing. Both Rueda and Moreno have insisted on incorporating financing into the agenda.

The downside for the Government is that the laws of the Conference of Presidents set up in its article 5.1 that the agenda “will be set by the preparatory committee with the approval of its President” —on this case the Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torres— “and of ten autonomous communities or cities with a Statute of Autonomy” —the quantity that the PP has. “He told me that the conference would be about housing and I told him that it was essential that it also cover financing,” Rueda mentioned. “It would not be acceptable for the agenda to be imposed, it would create tension on the part of the Government in a constitutional body,” Moreno warned. “I do not want to think that the Government does not include financing in the agenda,” the President of the Junta pressured. “We will scrupulously comply with the regulations. No initiative is vetoed here. “Whatever is likely to be included in the agenda will be included, without a doubt,” Minister Torres responded in a subsequent appearance, in which he announced that the preparatory committee for the Conference of Presidents, where the agenda is to be established, will take place in October.

In response to the PP presidents' intention to take the reform of the model to the Conference of Presidents, Sánchez has indicated that the forum to discuss the updating of the system is the Council of Fiscal and Financial Policy. An extreme that Minister Torres has also reiterated in a press conference after Moreno's appearance. However, even in that eventual scenario, Sánchez has pointed out to Rueda that it is “very difficult” to succeed in a consensus between all of the territories attributable to their completely different singularities and claims. “He told me that he saw it as very difficult to reach agreements on financing,” the Galician president has assured in that line. “I am clear about what Galicia needs in terms of financing. And I will discuss it with Mazón [presidente de la Comunidad Valenciana] And with the rest, of course we have our own needs, but it is impossible that one day we will have that financing if we start to discuss separately,” Rueda added.

Beyond the demands, both leaders have complained that Sánchez has only listened to them, responded with “nice words”, noting their requests, however with out reaching “concrete commitments”. At the identical time, they’ve acknowledged that Sánchez has not set any “traps” for them, because the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, had warned, whose attendance at La Moncloa stays up within the air. “In my opinion, when a president of the Government calls you, you have to answer his call,” Moreno mentioned. “Although I do not vote for him, it is clear that he is the president of the country, it is true that one can come out frustrated[fromthemeeting”heconcluded[delareunión”hafinalizado