The day has arrived. The series of contacts between the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and regional leaders begins this Friday in Moncloa. Although there is no agenda for the scheduled meetings, it is clear that migratory pressure, as well as the unique financing provided for Catalonia in the agreement between the PSC and the ERC to invest Salvador Illa as president of the Generalitat, will be the issues that, as expected, will take precedence. participate in these conversations.
It is precisely the possibility of a new autonomous budget model that most worries the main opposition party, the Popular Party (PP). Upon learning of the commitments made with the Catalan Republicans, Genoa has been clear. It is a “Catalan quota” that does not please its barons at all.
In fact, they have demanded a Conference of Presidents, because they consider that if regional financing is to be modified, it must be framed in multilateral and not bilateral conversations as Sánchez wants – and will do. A strong defender of this argument has been the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who still threatens not to attend the meeting with the president of the Executive if the agenda is not provided: if it is a question of singular financing, the popular will not do.
Yes, the rest of the popular barons will do so. After the Lehendakari of the PNV, Imanol Pradales, has inaugurated these meetings, it will be the turn of the first popular one. Precisely, Feijóo’s successor at the head of the Xunta de Galicia will be Alfonso Rueda, while in the early afternoon, Juanma Moreno, president of the Junta de Galicia, will travel to Moncloa. After each of them, it will be the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, who will explain what has been discussed.
