The President of the Government, Pedro Sanchezwill begin its contact tour with the regional presidents and will receive at the Moncloa Palace, in this order, the lehendakari Basque, Imanol Pradales (10:00 a.m.), to the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Dark (12:30), and, in the afternoon, to the president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alphonse Rueda (4:00 p.m.) —just as EL ESPAÑOL has advanced—according to government sources.
Moncloa will finalize the rest of the matches in the coming days.
Sánchez is now taking the initiative after months, if not years, of requests for bilateral meetings from PP leaders. The most extreme case is that of the president of the Region of Murcia, Fernando Lopez Miraswho accumulates more than six years without seeing Sanchez in a meeting of this type. The last meeting took place at September 2018.
Sanchez initially hoped to close “the electoral process cycle in Spain”, according to sources from Moncloa, to begin, without elections in sight, communication with the autonomous governments, as well as with the autonomous cities of Ceuta And Melilla.
Sanchez’s announcement also comes amid debate over the concert Catalan. Last week, during the inauguration of the political course on September 4, Sánchez offered “more money” to the autonomies, in an attempt to open a breach in the PP and with the aim of to divert the debate on the specific taxation of Catalonia.
In fact, he has partially achieved his first objective, because after the announcement of Sánchez, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Diaz Ayusoasked his party colleagues to boycott bilateral meetings with Sánchez. He then qualified his position and clarified that he was only asking to sabotage them if regional financing was negotiated.
The Madrid leader thus demonstrated unity with the rest of her regional colleagues and marked a closing of ranks with Alberto Nuñez Feijoowho sought to show a common front against Sanchez.
Conference of Presidents
In addition to requests for bilateral summits, PP community leaders They demand that Sanchez call a meeting as soon as possible. Conference of Presidentswhich has not been celebrated since March 2022.
They have already done so on several occasions, some presidents individually, but also jointly (November 2023 or April of this year). This entire process has culminated in the recent presentation of 11 calls for Supreme Courtseveral of them admitted for treatment this week, to urgently convene a multilateral table.
