The arrival at the Federal Committee of the PSOE of the president of Castile-La Mancha, Emiliano Garcia-Pagedid not disappoint: the baron most critical of Pedro Sánchez for his pacts and concessions with the Catalan independence movement demanded that the socialist leader “show” the document signed by the PSOE with ERC to become president Salvador Illa. A document that “no one has seen,” he assured, stressing that only what leaked from ERC is known.
“I come with enormous concern for the country and for the founding values of the left and social democracy. I spoke at the end of July, referring to the project leaked by ERC, that even if they are called Esquerra, not everything that is reactionary is right. It would be an honor to respond to the calls, but I would do better if you gave me a copy of the signed agreement, because at this point everyone is talking about respecting what was signed but I have not seen a signed document. I do not need explanations, I know how to read,” Page said.
Regarding the content of this agreement and this fiscal transfer to Catalonia, Page said that “this ERC document is much more selfish than socialist.
Referring to the comparisons made by the government between the financing of Catalonia and that of provinces such as Soria, Teruel or Cuenca, Page stressed that this is a “gross manipulation of reality, listening to it is a joke.”
“We all know what it is about, everyone understands money. Maybe not about amnesty and the Constitution, but about money, yes. “You can’t upset the institutional consensus to have power,” he stressed.
Page interrupted his intervention when an employee of the PSOE organization urged him to do so, assuring that the photojournalists would go to cover the photo from inside Ferraz.
PSOE Federal Committee
Sánchez summoned the members of the Federal Committee to Ferraz at 10:30 a.m., with the aim of approving the celebration of the 41st Federal Congress of the PSOE on the weekend of November 30, in which his re-election as Secretary General will take place. certified and possible adjustments in the regional leadership will be evaluated. The President of the Government will make a first statement in public session, while the rest of the meeting will take place behind closed doors.
The sectors of the PSOE most critical of the agreement between the PSC and the ERC for special financing in Catalonia have assured that they will raise their voices to show their rejection of the bilateral treatment granted to the Catalan community, especially the possibility that the Catalan Treasury manages one hundred percent of taxes.
Among the most critical are Emiliano García-Page, president of Castilla-La Mancha; Javier Lambán, leader of the Aragonese socialists; Miguel Ángel Gallardo, secretary general of the PSOE of Extremadura; and a representative of the Asturian Socialist Federation, since the president of the Principality, Adrián Barbón, will not be present due to the coincidence with the Region’s Day.
Critical Barons
Emiliano García-Page, one of the most vocal socialist leaders in his criticism of Catalonia’s departure from the common financing regime, confirmed that he would intervene in the Commission to address Sánchez and Salvador Illa, thus reiterating his position 38 days after making an institutional statement in which he raised his voice against concessions to the independentists. However, the exact content of his intervention has not been specified.
Javier Lambán, another of the most critical barons, will also speak, although the details of his speech are also not known. Lambán recently led a regional executive in which an explicit rejection of the Catalan quota was approved and an initiative against this special financing was presented to the Cortes.
For his part, Miguel Ángel Gallardo, general secretary of the PSOE of Extremadura, will defend the territorial model included in the Declaration of Granada of 2013, which rejects the privileges of the autonomous communities. Gallardo had requested a few weeks ago a summit of socialist leaders to discuss this issue, although the leadership of the PSOE has not yet responded to this request.
Finally, although Adrián Barbón will not be present due to the events of the Asturias Day, the Socialist Federation of the Principality will have a representative who will express its position in the Commission, which also rejects the bilateral agreement with Catalonia.
