The first measure that the PSOE is considering to begin securing the support necessary to renew its parliamentary majority has met with a frontal rejection from the PP that anticipates the difficulty and hardness of the negotiating process that is approaching in the face of the resumption of the activity in the Congress of Deputies on August 17, when the General Courts are constituted.
Despite agreeing with the socialists in the need to reformulate the current model, the vice secretary of organization of the PP, Miguel Tellado, understands the partisan use of the regional funding system to facilitate the investiture of those who have lost the elections as a “serious mistake”.
And questioned specifically about the offer made by the PSC to ERC and Junts per Catalunya to make a “removal” of the Catalan debt in exchange for their support for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, he described it as an “insult to the intelligence “. “Rewarding those who have managed their resources the worst is a call to irresponsibility in the economic management of communities”, criticized the popular leader in an interview with Onda Cero.
After testifying to the discomfort of a large part of the popular regional barons, the deputy secretary of organization of the PP 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 seconded, among others, by the 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 convene 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, for some reason, and now we are seeing why, because it is much better to do bilateral negotiations and exclude all the others”, the Galician president vehemently lamented.
The Minister for Employment of the Board of Andalusia, Rocío Blanco, also rejected any withdrawal, “even though Andalusia also owes” to the Government of Spain. But he warned that favorable deals can be made that would involve “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 Coalició (CC). Once she collected her credentials as deputy, Cristina Valido revealed her list of conditions, among which she highlighted, precisely, an improvement in regional funding for the islands.
“It’s still early”, he said to avoid making himself known, although he acknowledged that he has held informal talks with each other in case their vote is necessary for the unblocking.
Should this point be reached, Valido advanced his determination to demand, as established by the Canary Islands Statute, that the islands be part of “any negotiation on migration matters” with neighboring countries, as well as more management leeway both in port and airport infrastructures. “We want to be in the management and planning of airports”, he concluded.
