Pedro Sánchez wants to summon Alberto Núñez Feijóo to a first meeting in this new mandate in the Moncloa palace, before the end of the current year, as he acknowledged on Wednesday during the celebration of Constitution Day in Congress. And at this next meeting, the President of the Government is going to propose to the leader of the Popular Party to open a working commission to try to agree on three major State pacts: the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary, a new system of autonomous financing and the reform of article 49 of the Constitution, to eliminate the term “disabled”, in reference to people with a disability. This is how Sánchez himself explained it, this Thursday, in an interview on Antena 3 with Susanna Griso.
“I am going to propose a working commission,” Sánchez announced before his next meeting with Feijóo, despite the fact that he has not yet called the opposition leader to invite him to the meeting. “It is important that the two major political parties work with a horizon of agreement,” he assured. “And in that working committee I hope we can reach some kind of agreement,” he confided.
There are three fundamental issues, “priorities” in Sánchez’s opinion at the beginning of this new legislature, which he wants to put on the table in this working committee with the PP. Firstly, he has highlighted the reform of the regional financing system, which has been out of date for nine years. Secondly, he has pointed out the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), which in turn has had its mandate expired for more than five years. And, thirdly, the reform of article 49 of the Constitution, to eliminate the term “diminished”, on which there would be a starting consensus between the Executive and the PP.
Feijóo’s party, however, considers that with this meeting proposal Sánchez is only seeking to “whitewash his agreements with the independentists”, as Griso reminded him, but the President of the Government has warned that, in just fifteen days of the new Executive, The PP and Vox have already called “70 demonstrations.” “It’s going to be very long for them. And it seems quite wrong to me, from the point of view of political strategy, to try to run a marathon as if it were a hundred-meter race,” the PSOE leader has warned.
Sánchez, in any case, has once again defended and justified the future amnesty law for those accused of the process, negotiated with Junts and ERC, just as in the last legislature he approved the pardons for imprisoned independence leaders. “There is virtue in this decision, because once and for all we have to leave behind the judicial drift caused by that trauma that October 1, 2017 represented, and everything that happened previously,” he assured.
The President of the Government, until now, had already warned that the PP will also benefit from this amnesty law, by facilitating coexistence in Catalonia and recovering a party like Junts that until now was “outside the system” as a political actor. . But Sánchez has gone a step further today, and has assured that Feijóo’s formation would also have promoted this amnesty, if he had not depended on the far-right of Vox to be able to govern.
“I am so convinced of the virtues of the amnesty law that I am convinced that the PP, if it had not depended on the votes of Vox to be able to carry out its investiture, and only on peripheral nationalism, would have approved the amnesty law” Sánchez stressed.
