The barons of the PP draw a plan to impose their agenda at the Presidents Conference | Spain

The tectonic PP plates move from the territories to Madrid to press La Moncloa. This Friday, the advisors of the presidency of the 11 communities and the two autonomous cities governed by the Popular Party held a telematic meeting. The idea was to draw a plan to bend the arm to Minister Ángel Víctor Torres with the aim of incorporating into the agenda of the presidents conference on the next day 6 in Barcelona the issues of which the popular want to discuss. The offensive arrives after Wednesday’s meeting, which ended Without agreement on the agenda of that summit. During the more than two hours of closed door discussion that lasted that previous conclave sparks.

The summit between Pedro Sánchez and the regional leaders were already coming from itself tense. But the temperature goes in crescendo As the days progress both for the disagreements between the regional governments and the Ministry of Territorial Policy on account of the agenda of the Conference of Presidents and by the date of the summit, which will be held only 48 hours before From the demonstration announced Thursday by Alberto Núñez Feijóo against which he calls « mafia » of the central executive in Madrid. The PP barons have been confirming in cascade during the last hours their attendance at concentration. The acts will also support former presidents Mariano Rajoy and José María Aznar. “Let’s say enough already, That this degradation ends, ”Feijóo proclaimed this Friday, calling the » moral rearm « against Sánchez. » Democracy does not have to bend to the mafia, « he said.

The advisors of the presidency of all the communities gathered face -to -face with Minister Torres on Wednesday, at the preparatory meeting of the Presidents Conference, in a meeting that was intended to square the agenda of the regional summit next Friday. The Government had proposed to address at the conference, which will be held at the Pedralbes Palace in Barcelona, ​​two issues: access to housing and professional and university training. But the PP barons rejected then – and continue to reject – the offer, after which they see a Sánchez trick to appear “institutionality” in the midst of the alleged cases of corruption that surround the PSOE. The popular want to also discuss On other issues such as the outpouring, regional financing, the blackout or the « lack of health professionals ».

The versions between the Ministry and the communities of the PP collide. On the one hand, Torres said that on Wednesday a proposal for the agenda that assumed practically all the demands of the popular, except for the issue on « delegation of competences » in the field of immigration and the requirement of withdrawing the legislative proposal of the PSOE on justice was submitted on Wednesday. On the other, the counselors of the Popular Party affirmed that the minister intended to add only some of his claims. The meeting ended up jumping through the air, with the leaders of the PP voting against. And winning by 13 to 7.

Torres maintains that the agenda at this time is the one that was previously defined: housing and education. The PP maintains, on the other hand, that the agenda is non -existent and seeks formulas to “enforce” its territorial power based on article 5.2.C of the Regulations of the Presidents Conference. This states: « In addition to the agreed issues within the preparatory committee, those requested at the request of: the majority of the representatives of the Autonomous Communities and Cities with Statute of Autonomy will be included in any case. »

The directors anticipate that they will exhaust « all the legal possibilities » so that Torres swallows with their requests to grab that precept. And weigh during this weekend whether to formalize their demands through some writing, which may refer individually or jointly. They also have the path of the Senate open, where the PP has an absolute majority, to register their proposal. The barons also want the conference format to change so that there are replica shifts and not only 10 minutes interventions by regional president. A use that has been common in previous conferences.

While the fringes of the Joint Plan close, there is already an autonomy that threatens to plant Sanchez if it does not turn with the issues to be discussed: the Community of Madrid, which usually takes the lead in the pulse to the president of the Government. Its Madrid leader, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, did not appear at La Moncloa in the past autumn for the face -to -face interview with the chief of the Executive, although he did travel to Santander during the last president of Presidents in December. But now Sopesa decline the invitation of the summit scheduled in Barcelona if Sánchez « entertains the debate » and seeks only « a photo » to « cover the cases of corruption and shame » that « are affecting » the PSOE. Thus the Minister of the Madrid Presidency, Miguel Ángel García, in statements collected by Europa Press.

But Ayuso’s hardness is not shared, again, by much of the rest of barons. In Madrid, the president of Cantabria, María José Sáenz de Buruaga, showed this Friday in favor of going to Pedralbes, whatever passes through a matter of « institutionality ». Of course, followed the line marked by Genoa by crossing out the PSOE of « Camorra » and subtracted credibility to the summit as designed by the Ministry. « I believe that we take the same path and this will be a useless conference, in bucket. In addition, the president of the Government no longer bothers or try to appear otherwise, » said Sáenz de Buruaga at an informative breakfast organized by the new economy forum.

The Common Front has been setting days, with different meetings of the presidency counselors coordinated by Genoa. To the last of this Friday to force in extremis The agenda adds another convened last Wednesday and prior to the appointment with Torres. It was present the Vice Secretary of Autonomous Coordination of the PP, Elías Bendodo. « The government has to know that regional presidents have the possibility, the ability to introduce issues in the agenda that the government has to accept, » said Blessed Friday. And accused Sánchez of wanting to « kidnap » the multilateral cooperation agency.

A manifestation « Without Logos »

The regional presidents of the PP have planned to travel to Barcelona to the president’s call – with the unknown of Ayuso – two days before doing the same to go to Madrid to the demonstration called by Feijóo. The leader of the Popular Party has instructed that the concentration of June 8 « does not have logos or party scenography » – sources of Genoa intervene – so that « it is not an act » of the formation, « but an act of country to which people of different sensibilities can approach. » This was announced by Feijóo this Friday in Valladolid at the first rally of the internal campaign for the primary of the Popular Party of July. Vox has already refused to join the protest.