The Government and the PP struggle for the agenda of the Presidents Conference with Catalonia as Ariete | Spain

With the call of the Presidents Conference, on June 6, in Barcelona, ​​the Government sought to convey the idea of ​​the return to institutionality in Catalonia. He President Salvador Illa will exercise as a host more than a year after the regional elections after which he dismissed the independence of the Government. La Moncloa wanted to discuss about access to housing and professional and university training. But the barons of the Popular Party will not be easy: they will go to the shock and fight this Wednesday – when the preparatory meeting is held that will configure the agenda of the appointment -, to put on the table other issues such as singular financing or “the indeligible exclusive competence of the State in border control and immigration”.

The coordinated strategy of the regional leaders of the PP – which presides over 11 communities and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla – tries to resurrect the feeling that the Proces He has not died and that Pedro Sánchez is still tied, they continue – for their independence partners. The popular plan for the conference is now reinforced, they consider in Genoa, for the postponement this Tuesday of the vote in the EU of the official of Catalan, Basque and Galician. « Europe has told Pedro Sánchez that the EU is not currency with the independence that led him to Moncloa and that he keeps him in power, » says sources from the Feijóo cabinet.

The deadline that autonomies had to submit proposals ended on Friday. The Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torres – who on Tuesday has resumed the activity after the surgical intervention to which he was subjected by cancer – will be this Wednesday present at the meeting of the preparatory committee, after which the final order of the day will be closed. The regulations of the multilateral organ It establishes that the issues to be addressed at the Presidents Conference will be set by the Preparatory Committee « with the conformity of its president – the Minister of Territorial Policy – and ten Autonomous Communities or Cities with Statute of Autonomy. »

PP communities have made a common front to add to the agenda of the summit provided in the Palau de Pedralbes from Barcelona seven points. The first is the « fight against the squatting », according to the documentation sent by the Minister of Presidency to the Government, an issue to which the right grants great importance despite the fact that official data denies the social alarm. The Courts received 2,309 complaints in 2024 for the Okupation of habitual housing according to the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ).

While the PP refuses to intervene the market by applying the Housing Law and bases its response to the housing crisis to combat the offering and lower taxation to the real estate sector, the PSOE has just registered the proposal of the law in Congress To upload the VAT of tourist floors, make empty housing more expensive and taxed foreigners who buy house. He also wants to expand the bonuses to the homemade from Spain in the state section of the IRPF that reduce their rentals according to the official price index without the need for those homes to be in areas declared as tension. The measures announced a few days after the conclave mark the way on which the government will move.

But the path to which the Central Executive pointed to this Wednesday with the play against the popular, who in the Catalan capital will lunge with issues related to Sánchez’s assignments to independence. Regarding autonomous financing, the PP wants to introduce the debate on the restructuring of the debt into the agenda – rejecting its rejection of the condonation agreed by the Treasury and ERC (extendable to all territories) and the unique treatment of Catalonia agreed by the PSC and ERC precisely for the investiture of Illa. As well as the approval by Royal Decree of deliveries on account.

Another of the demands of the presidents of the Popular Party is to deal with the « indeligible exclusive competence » of the State in border and immigration control. A request that is introduced after the government and together agreed For the delegation of immigration competition management.

A pact to which the slope transfer of migrant minors not accompanied to the Peninsula and to which the PP is opposed – four of his communities have challenged him in the Constitutional – because Catalonia benefits. The government provides for the police and prosecution to force communities to host these young peopleand will undertake legal actions against communities that refuse to collaborate in their relocation.

Apart from the Catalan spine, the presidents of the PP have asked to address other movie issues such as safety in the energy model after the blackout of April 28, with the focus on the “Technical investments in the Ree networks (Spanish Electric Red) and backup energies”, which the popular use as a batter against the Moncloa. Another section with a lot of political crumb is « the serious deficit of critical infrastructure » after the delays suffered a few weeks ago the high -speed rail network.

The lack of health professionals and the financing of education from zero to three years are other demands agreed by popular barons. Murcia marks his own profile by asking for « the question of water and the need for a national water pact. » The Generalitat of Carlos Mazón proposes the same points as the other PP communities despite the Dana disaster. The Canary Islands, where Canarian coalition co -government with the popular ones, requires that Government and Autonomous Presidents deal with the Presidents Conference “Preparation of a Structural Migration Plan in the State” and that local regime legislation “to enable local entities to adopt agreements that limit the acquisition or use of housing by non -resident persons” is modified.

Socialist communities

Faced with the strategy followed by the PP, the PSOE communities raise different issues according to their interests. Thus, Catalonia reinforces that housing policies are discussed in addition to the modernization and transformation of public services, « covering areas such as digitalization, streamlining and simplification of administrative processes. » Asturias has interest in schools from zero to three years such as the communities of the PP, but also wants to talk about investment in defense and security and the « coordinated response » to the tariff crisis caused by Donald Trump’s commercial war. Castilla-La Mancha is in accordance with the government’s initiative to focus on housing and professional training, but asks to expand to regional financing. « Since we are in Barcelona, ​​it would be appropriate, » said its president, Emiliano García-Page on Tuesday. Navarra has not made additional proposals. Euskadi, with a PNV coalition government and the PSE, claims time for the energy transition and decarbonization of the industry.

The last president’s conference was held in person on December 13 in Santander. The previous one took place in March 2022 on the Canary Island of La Palma. Attendees approved in it the modification of the regulation so that there are two annual meetings. The Government justified the breach of the regulation until the appointment in Cantabria for a calendar that did not give truce with regional and municipal elections in May 2023, general in July of that year and a first semester of 2024 with elections in Galicia, Basque Country, Catalonia and elections to the European Parliament.