The first measure considered by the PSOE to begin to secure the necessary parliamentary support to renew its parliamentary majority has met with a frontal rejection by the Popular Party, which anticipates the difficulty and harshness of the negotiating process that is coming with a view to the resumption of the parliamentary activity on the 17th.
Despite agreeing with the Socialists on the need to reformulate the current model, the deputy secretary of Organization of the PP, Miguel Tellado, understands the partisan use of the regional financing system to facilitate the investiture of those who have lost the elections as a “serious error”. ”.
And specifically questioned about the offer made by the PSC to ERC and Junts to make a “removal” of the Catalan debt in exchange for their support for the investiture of Sánchez, he described it as an “insult to intelligence”. “Rewarding those who have managed their resources the worst is an appeal to irresponsibility in the economic management of communities,” the popular leader criticized in an interview on Onda Cero.
After witnessing the discomfort of a large part of its autonomous barons, the vice-secretary of Popular Organization declared that no negotiation in this regard can be “bilateral”, but must be done multilaterally. “The regional financing system is not here to benefit territories, but to finance public services,” he recalled.
Tellado’s position was supported, among others, by popular Galicians and Andalusians. The president of the Xunta himself, Alfonso Rueda, reproached the PSOE for “not having taken advantage of the five years of government” to bring together the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council and address regional financing, “which is what all the autonomous communities are asking for , including those of the Socialist Party”. “He never wanted to do it, it would be for a reason, and now we are seeing why, because it is much better to do bilateral negotiations, excluding all the rest of us,” he lamented vehemently.
The Minister of Employment of the Junta de Andalucía, Rocío Blanco, also rejected any reduction “even though Andalusia also has a debt” with the Government of Spain. But she warned that favorable deals can be made that would imply “playing in another league.”
Who did put a price on their support for the hypothetical investiture of both Pedro Sánchez (PSOE) and Alberto Núñez Feijóo (PP) was the Canary Islands Coalition (CC). Once her credential as a deputy was collected, Cristina Valido outlined her list of conditions, among which she highlighted, precisely, an improvement in regional financing for the islands.
“It’s still early,” he slipped to avoid meaning, although he acknowledged having held informal conversations with each other in case his vote is necessary for the unlocking.
In case of reaching that point, Valido advanced his determination to demand, as established in the Canary Statute, that the islands form part of “any negotiation on migration issues” with neighboring countries, as well as a greater margin of management both in the port and airport infrastructures. “We want to be in the management and planning of airports,” he settled.
