The PP sabotea the presidents conference with an unabarcable agenda on the eve of the protest against « La Mafia » | Spain

The barons of the PP will sit this Friday in Barcelona with the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, only two days before attending a demonstration convened by Genoa against « La Mafia », whose « capo », according to the popular leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, is the socialist leader. This uncomfortable contradiction to some territories of the PP, which complain in deprived that the PP address has made the « strategic error » of placing the protest date so close to the presidents conference. The mobilization of Feijóo against the Government conditions the meeting of the regional presidents with the Executive, which is held on the eve in a very loud environment after the threat of the popular proposal. La Moncloa He gave yesterday before the PP to save the meeting and included all his claims on the agenda, which results in an unabarcable agenda of 14 points that hinders the operation of the conference, dedicated in a climate of maximum tension to end without agreements.

After the threat of PP’s proposal, the Presidents Conference will deal next Friday an extensive catalog of issues on which 19 Territorial Leaders (17 Autonomous Presidents and those of the two autonomous cities) and the President of the Government will have to discuss in Barcelona. At the six initially planned points, which already covered issues of as much complexity as housing, immigration, energy, autonomous financing and infrastructure, the PP has imposed another eight, most of them derived from the former, such as the “Okupation and the inquiokupation” in the case of housing, or that the control of border and the immigration policy are “exclusive competence of the State”. The popular have even forced that there are talk of matters that have nothing to do with regional policy, such as « the withdrawal of the projects of reform of the Judiciary and the Statute of the Fiscal Ministry. »

The Government has yielded to everything that the PP has asked because it wanted to save the conference before the unusual threat of boycott of the PP. Until now, only Catalan and Basque independence had left the empty chair in this coordination body between administrations, chaired by the king. But the Executive complains about the « excuses » of the PP and how little operational it is to include so many issues, while other regional presidents, such as the socialist María Chivite, have called for reflection to the PP for « dynamiting spaces for dialogue. »

In the sabotage strategy, the National Directorate of the PP has been fully involved, with its leader at the head, Alberto Núñez Feijóo. On a tour of Spain in his candidate campaign to lead the party in the next month of July, Feijóo has uploaded the decibels against the government to the fullest. This Tuesday came to defend yesterday that the conference was « illegally convened » if all the demands of their barons were not assumed, and endorsed the institutional challenge in case the government did not yield.

The PP voices choir followed the same discursive line of maximum hardness, including moderate line barons. “If Sanchez believes we were going to say Yes, Bwana, He is wrong, because for that he already has a court of palm trees in his own game, ”the parliamentary spokesman, Miguel Tellado, had warned in the morning. In the afternoon, in an act with sympathizers in Logroño, Feijóo took a breast of having“ folded his arm ”to the government.“ They loved us quiet, but they will have us demanding, ”said the popular leader, who faces vox criticism for“ Its presidents will participate at the end in the meeting.

The demonstration of the PP against “La Mafia” on Sunday in Madrid conditions the popular, who is not interested in an institutional normality photograph with Sánchez 48 hours before demonstrating against him. Although the PP is going to charter buses from all over the country, in some popular forums restless protest attendance in a weekend of good time after a very rainy spring. That is why it was important to warm the atmosphere to mobilize the ranks.

Some popular barons recognize in private have been oblivious to the proposal’s strategy and question having seconded it in case of total shock. « I don’t plant it to the king, » says one of them, who congratulates himself that « the government has acted well » assuming PP claims. The previous climate in any case predicts very few agreements.

Sanchez decided that the conference was held in Barcelona because it has great symbolic power. After Santander’s appointment, in which there was no agreement although a kind of political minitrege, with a tone of the barons of the PP much less aggressive than his party has in the Congress of Deputies or the Senate, the government already knows that reaching agreements with the formation of Feijóo will be very difficult. But the main interest of the appointment, for the Government, is not only the content, and to talk about issues that affect citizens and autonomies management, but the continent: the photo of all Spanish political power concentrated in Barcelona with the head of the State, and with a President Socialist as host, Salvador Illa, is very symbolic almost eight years after Proces. This photography of institutional normality in Barcelona, ​​epicenter of the independence crisis, is for Sánchez more powerful than any agreement that is increasingly difficult with the PP.

The Government tries by all means that the political agenda leaves the focus on sewers and the war of recordings of recent days. La Moncloa designs a plan to try to sell its management every Tuesday, its good economic data, but the media focus is elsewhere. This Tuesday, the government spokeswoman, Pilar Alegría, started with unemployment data, the lowest in 17 years, and the occupied record, which are already approaching 22 million. And then two ministers, that of Science, Diana Morant, and that of Health, Mónica García, unreasonable important measures of their departments. Morant also defended that the presidents conference should focus on the financing of public universities, as the Executive claims, because it is an issue that worries millions of students and parents. The public are so undeaddated, especially in the communities of the PP, he explained that the cutting notes are rising without limit and already a brilliant student who takes out a 13 cannot study medicine in the public because he needs more, so there are parents who are borrowing to pay him a private one. Public places have risen 2% and privately 110%, explained the minister. The government tries to focus on these management issues the public debate, but it does not achieve it because judicial issues, cross complaints, the war of recordings and the slowness of the PSOE when making a decision on the militant involved in some maneuvers against the UCO dome dominate the media and political agenda.