Genoa keeps the pulse to the government while the barons of the PP measure their steps on the removal | Spain

The PP suffers to maintain a monolithic strategy in its rejection of the condom of 83,000 million euros of debt to the autonomous communities. The proposal of the 14 PP Treasury Directors To the First Vice President María Jesús Montero in the Council of Fiscal and Financial Policy (CPFF) this Wednesday was a demonstration of force of Genoa. He did it to exhibit the institutional power of his communities as a counterweight to the Government on the grounds that the Quita was originally intended only for Catalonia and does not solve the problem of the financing system, pending revision since 2014. However, that block that staged the PP presented the First fissures for the ambiguity and silences of the representatives of several of their communities about whether socialist autonomies will be added when the time comes to request that part of their debt be condemned, which in cases such as Galicia would mean a relief of 33% of the total. Other communities, such as Andalusia, will be the most benefited in absolute terms, with a remove of 18,791 million, more than Catalonia (17,104 million). In this scenario, the Deputy Secretary of Economy of the PP, Juan Bravo, predicted that his party will maintain “the same opposition to the condonation always” while the PSOE was the pressure on the autonomous presidents of the Núñez Feijóo party due to the difficult explanation that the renunciation of a multimillion -dollar debt that every year is charged hundreds of millions in interests that cannot be allocated to public services.

Bravo insisted that the government's proposal was a « trap », the same term that Feijóo used when he met the amount that Hacienda put on the table. The PP leader said Monday that his baronies would vote against debt forcononation, And in the end they rose from their chair at the middle of the CPFF meeting and the Quita was approved without their participation. The interpretation they make in Ferraz and the Moncloa is that they save themselves into the contradiction of having rejected the measure – its vote was counted as abstention – and request it within a few months if approved in Congress. Despite all the attempts of Genoa to transmit an image of unity, He has not been able to guarantee that his barons reject the case of the offer devised by Montero, that among other benefits would facilitate financing in the markets. The president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, reaffirmed this Thursday when the damage of the debt offered by the Government is « a ruinous business », but when asked directly, he avoided clarifying whether he will renounce it: « We go in parts, » he said, and eluded being clear. The president of Aragon, Jorge Azcón, also did not want to close the door in advance to accept the foroning if the law is approved, waiting to know in what terms the norm comes to the Congress of Deputies. « You have to read the small print, » he said in an interview in Wave Zero in which he labeled the Treasury initiative of « Trilerism game » and « A bad business for the Aragonese with arithmetic in hand. » More blunt was Castellanoleon Alfonso Fernández Mañueco: « If the law to condemn the debt goes ahead, we will resort to the Constitutional Court. »

Government's pressure raised on the barons of the PP while Bravo accused the government of trying to « divide » his party. Several ministers and territorial leaders of the PSOE, headed by Montero, They assumed that the conservative regional presidents cannot be opposed when the time of truth arrives and they have to request the debt remove once it is approved in the Courts, assuming that together it will not lie it and, therefore, it will have the support of the majority of the investiture. “You take away some debt and the PP communities tell you not! That is Feijóo's adult policy, ”said the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez. « The PP has as many financing models as communities where it governs, » said the first vice president and general secretary of the PSOE of Andalusia after an act in Malaga, where he stressed that his community would receive more millions than Catalonia. « The PP has no model to promote a financing system or to make a debt forgiveness, it does not have a country project, » he settled after accusing « posture » and « Andalusia of Pulserita » to the regional president, Juan Manuel Moreno, his rival in the elections that, if they do not get ahead, will be held in June 2026.

“The PP communities rose from the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council because they did not want to express their negative vote; I would bet that it was because they will want that remove of debt, ”said Pilar Alegría, spokesman for the Executive and General Secretary of the Socialists in Aragon, in an interview in Antena 3. The same argument that Montero held on Wednesday when the PP counselors left the CPFF for not » daring « to vote against a measure despite the fact that it benefits them. The solution they opted for was to leave the meeting when it had been more than an hour and, therefore, it had been constituted: in this way, the condom could be approved without the PP autonomies had to pronounce. The measure was approved with the favorable votes of the Government and the communities of Catalonia, Asturias and Castilla-La Mancha, all socialists. “It is time to live up and have a point of generosity. It is not worth getting up from the table and avoiding dialogue. We must respect the institutions and make an effort of unity, ”reproached Salvador Illa, the president of the Catalan Generalitat.

Debt cut in PP autonomies

The PSOE has gone from suffering to explain agreements such as the singular financing for Catalonia to ensure that it feels comfortable with the solution of the removal for all common regime communities. Faced with the PP argument that it is an initiative that responds to the agreement with ERC that guaranteed its support for the last investiture of Pedro Sánchez, the foronation designed by Montero has aligned and given oxygen to the new territorial leaders of the PSOE. “It is inexplicable that an autonomous community does not accept debt forgiveness and, therefore, savings in interest payment. Anyone would like the bank to call him to tell him that he will forgive 25% of the mortgage and that he will save his interests. Well, not only do they say no, but they consider it an aggression, it is unfortunate that the PP has such a sectarian position that it is capable of even renouncing to save almost 300 million a year in the payment of interest in Madrid, ”Óscar López, Minister for the Digital Transformation and General Secretary of the PSM.

The thesis of the Socialists is that the 83,000 million removes that Hacienda has put on the table implies that several communities of the PP can release ballast: almost 19,000 million in Andalusia, 11,210 million in the Valencian Community, 8,644 million in Madrid, 4,010 million in Galicia, 3,643 million in Castilla y León, 3,318 million in Murcia, 2,124 million in Aragon, 1,741 million in Aragon, 1,741 million in Aragon. Balearic Islands, 1,718 million in Extremadura, 809 million in Cantabria and 448 million in La Rioja. “It does not have a pass to leave the meeting before the debate. I do not know if they abandoned her because they could not vote against or because they were forced from the PP not to vote in favor. It is a political tacticism exercise to follow the order that Feijóo has given. But they do not occupy an individual space, they are representing millions of people. And I bet that if this ends up, they will not give up the debt remove, ”said Ángel Víctor Torres, Minister of Territorial Policy and Secretary General of the Party in the Canary Islands.