The few months of extension also with the Basque Executive who directs the PNV in coalition with the PSE after the long meeting in the Moncloa of President Pedro Sánchez with the Lehendakari, Imanol Pradales, and their respective teams. In the appointment, progress was made in the transfer of the management of a series of competencies to, especially on non -contributory pensions, maritime rescue and school insurance, and a way out of the future of Talgo was channeled. Pradales thanked those progress but also marked some distances because he did not achieve everything “the desired” and committed in the previous appointment. He also asked Sanchez to “put order” in his cabinet so that all ministers work in the same direction.
The appointment between President Sánchez and was extended and prolonged the work meeting between the two governments almost three and a half hours. The two executives extolled the advances, but with different nuances. The Lehendakari took the opportunity to comment with Sánchez “the gravity” of all the noise and scandals that are surrounding the central government in recent weeks but refused to qualify the situation as the parliamentary spokeswoman, Maribel Vaquero, when he released Sánchez last Wednesday that he was on his way to the ICU and almost naked at his level of confidence. For that reference, a journalist has asked the Minister of Territorial Policy, in the appearance after the meeting in La Moncloa. And Torres has responded that “the Government of Spain continues to work (…) until the end of its path that is the present legislature, and two years are left ahead.”
The work meeting between the two governments reaped some “relevant advances,” according to Pradales, “but less than agreed and desired.” The Lehendakari recommended the President “to put order” in his team of ministers because he understands that some do not work in a coordinated manner and in the same direction and because he defends that “the clock runs” in the legislature and we must “increase the rhythm” of the pending transfer.
At the bilateral meeting to realize on the transfers chapter and more self -government, the Basque Government stressed that the door opens to the “management of the economic regime of social security that had remained closed to lime and singing with 46 locks, one for each year of breach of the statute in this matter.”
In that section, the Plan contains that before the end of the year a commission will require how this transfer to Euskadi of the management of non -contributory social security benefits, as well as the school insurance, and how that government “assumes” the processing, recognition, payment, inspection, control and sanctioning power of non -contributory family benefits and the special subsidy by birth “. There, the economic allocation for the minor child welcomed, the economic benefit by birth or adoption, by childbirth or multiple adoption and the special subsidy by birth of a non -contributive nature will enter into the future.
Minister Torres described the advances and the encounter as “fruitful” in line with the bilateral scheduled and organized with more regional governments, such as the one developed this Monday with the Generalitat of Catalonia, and concluded: “More autonomy is more Spain no less Spain.”
The Lehendakari did not want to enter warnings or notices of the relationship between the PSOE and the PNV but did anticipate that “the revalidation” of the connection between both administrations will be passed at the end of the year.
The PNV achieved, in November 2023 and in the face of the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, an agreement that had been pretending several legislatures to “transfer the economic management of social security.” The deadline was then set in two years and has not been fulfilled. The specific point spoke of “the corresponding transfer of the matters pending transfer according to the list agreed by the Spanish and Basque governments in the previous legislature.” And one of those pending points of the Gernika Statute of 1979 was the transfer of social security management in the Basque field contained in its article 18. Half of the Spanish autonomies also have it collected in their statutes.
Euskadi has its own hacienda and has enough information about its citizens and management capacity to do so. It is a controversial assignment due to the nature of the Single Social Security Fund, so now the management would be given, leaving the normative and sanctioning capacity in the hands of the State.
The result of this new contact of the President and the Government with one of its most reliable investiture partners has sat badly in the PP. His Deputy Secretary of Autonomous and Local Coordination and Electoral Analysis, Elías Bendodo, has stressed the severity of the assignment of social security competencies to the Basque Government, because it implies “a kick to the unity of Spain, to democracy and solidarity among the Spaniards. Not everything is worth a few more days in power. Sánchez is delivering the keys of growth, unity and freedom to those who want to break Spain”.
