A dispute over the agenda threatens the celebration of the presidents conference scheduled for this Friday in Barcelona. The 11 regional presidents of the PP and those of the two autonomous cities will send on Monday a formal letter to the government in which they will include them as issues to discuss in that appointment, in addition to housing and education, which are the issues raised by Moncloa. If the Executive does not accept its approaches, the PP does not rule out an proprietary on Friday, a possibility that the Madrid leader, Isabel Díaz Ayuso has already suggested, although the PP is confident that there is an agreement because it claims to have the law of your hand. The popular direction gives free way to their barons if they decide not to attend the conference, something that.
The national spokesman of the PP, Borja Sémper, has left the door open this Monday to a popular barons in the event that the Executive does not travel with its requests, for which the PP states that it has legal protection. “If the Government again slam [de la Conferencia de Presidentes] We will see what the positions adopted by the presidents. Do not rule out any possibility, ”said Sémper, asked at a press conference in case Genoa contemplates that some regional president does not go to Barcelona.” But they will try, of course, that the regulation is fulfilled and that the issues that affect the citizens of their autonomous communities will include in the order of the day, “he said.
The PP argues that the Government has the legal obligation to accept its requests because the popular ones are a majority in the Presidents Conference, and the regulation of the Body says that “in any case, those requested at the request of the majority of the representatives of the set of autonomous communities and cities with the statute of autonomy” will be included in any case. The PP has 13 votes compared to 7.
In case of disagreement for the agenda, the direction of the PP of Alberto Núñez Feijóo gives free way to its barons to plant the president of the Government in this forum, which the king usually also goes. “Our presidents are making a first -class institutional effort,” said Sémper. “But if in front of you, you have a wall, which represents the Government of Spain, which not only refuses for the pleasure of introducing the issues but also makes the regulation itself jump through the air, we understand that everything jumps through the air. The responsibility of what happens will only be from the Government. It will seem good to us the decision made by the presidents in response to this ignominy,” he said, asked about the possibilities of an approach.
With this position, the popular dome alters its approaches to institutionality, which until now had defended that it was respected in any case. When Isabel Díaz Ayuso planted Sánchez in the round of meetings with the regional leaders in La Moncloa, both Feijóo and Sémper unchecked from that decision of the Madrid leader. “If a president does not go to Moncloa, he makes an error. Ayuso knows his responsibility well,” said the PP leader, although he later added that he understood the motivations of the president.
Now, a few days before which he calls “mafia” of the government, the PP leaves the door open not to respect the institutionality, with the argument that the government is not respected either. In previous calls, only the independence presidents of Catalonia and the Basque Country have left their chair empty in this coordination forum between the central government and the 17 autonomous communities.
The barons of the PP have been confirming in cascade during the last hours their assistance to the concentration of Sunday, which will be held just 48 hours after the Presidents Conference.
The threat of Aposition is produced in the context of serious accusations of the PP against the Government, after the recordings in which a PSOE militant is heard, Leire Díez, seek evidence against one of the UCO chiefs that investigates cases of alleged corruption that affect the progressive executive. Feijóo has come to qualify Sánchez as “Capo de la Mafia” for those information. This Monday, in addition, the popular have suggested irregularities in the vote by mail in the general elections of 2023 because Leire Díez worked on those dates in emails and boasted in a publication on their social networks of having participated in the coordination of the vote by mail, although Correos has denied that this was his responsibility.
The PP has registered Díez’s appearance in the Senate and other high post office to inquire about alleged irregularities in the vote by mail. “We do not doubt post officials, we are convinced of their professional neatness,” said Sémper. “We doubt the intentionality of people of Leire’s moral stature. It seems normal to ask. There is no more today. We ask questions. If this woman has had responsibilities in emails in such critical areas, we must ask why.”
