Sánchez and Feijóo meet today in Congress with the possibility of a distant agreement

If the possibilities of agreement were measured based on the previous statements, from the meeting to which the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, were summoned this morning in Congress, there is little pact probabilities. Especially because of the topics that will be discussed at the meeting. While the Government insists on addressing the renewal of the Council, the president of the PP wants to talk “about the country” and its problems.

Furthermore, if there was a willingness to reach an agreement, the reproaches would have been lowered yesterday, but the President of the Government, visiting Barcelona to meet with Pere Aragonès, criticized Feijóo for the meeting taking place in Congress, “something unprecedented.” From the PP, however, it is remembered that Feijóo did not impose anything and it was Sánchez himself who from the Congress platform told him that he would hold the meeting “wherever he wants, whenever he wants and however he wants”, and the president of the PP chose the Congress . Feijóo responded yesterday that he was clear that “anywhere except in Geneva and with a mediator.”

The Government, through Minister Félix Bolaños, yesterday called on the leader of the PP to agree to the renewal of the Council: “The rule of law would be hit tomorrow if the PP agrees to renew the CGPJ.” Feijóo says he is willing to resume the talks where they left off in 2022, even if the socialists skipped what was agreed with the appointment of two members of the Constitutional Court related to the Government.

The PP also does not rule out that there could be an agreement on replacing the term “disabled” in article 49 of the Constitution with the expression “people with disabilities.” In this case, the PP is also willing to resume negotiations at the point where the talks left off before the elections. It requests a written commitment from the PSOE that no amendment will be accepted on any matter that does not have to be addressed with this article, to prevent the independentists from “including territorial issues.”