The PNV is not willing to miss the opportunity to broaden its powers that one of the weakest and most mortgaged governments in democracy offers . The Basque and Catalan nationalists, even when they have struggled to show their more moderate face, have not stopped using the negotiations with the successive governments, popular and socialist, to go beyond what the ambiguous and inconclusive establishes Title VIII of the Constitution . However, until now, Basque nationalism had not succeeded in making any Government willing to study the transfer of two competences - Prisons and Social Security - which, if granted, would not only violate Article 149 of the Magna Carta , but would also threaten State cohesion And yet, Pedro Sánchez, did not hesitate to commit to meet the historical demands of the PNV in exchange for the votes for his investiture.

Therefore, aware that the PSOE will need its parliamentary support again for the approval of the Budgets, the Minister of Finance and Economy of the Basque Government, Pedro Azpiazu , hastened to publicly remind the Socialist Executive that they are willing to demand the transfer of the pensions, a demand that they have been waiting for "for 40 years", in reference to the content of article 18 of the Statute of Guernica of 1979, where this aspiration is collected. The PNV does not hide that its ultimate objective would be the creation of a Basque Social Security , which would de facto make it an almost independent State. But he also knows that the Social Security's single box is constitutionally guaranteed. Its aspiration, therefore, is limited at first to demand the ability to pay pensions and have its own offices , which would mean a step prior to the creation of a Basque body. The Government cannot yield to nationalist blackmail. The Minister of Territorial Policy and Public Function, Carolina Darias , must make it clear to the PNV when meeting with them in the next few days that this objective is clearly unconstitutional. As is the transfer of prison powers, the other strong point that Basque nationalists will demand from the PSOE.

It is, the latter, an old nationalist demand. Not only of the PNV. Also, from the Abertzale left and ETA itself, since the management of the three Basque penitentiary centers is part of the anti-terrorism policy. However, despite the fact that the ETAs have stopped killing, there is currently no necessary constitutional consensus to carry it out. In addition, given the precedent of Lledoners , where the Generalitat is politically interfering shamelessly to favor those convicted of the 1-O coup, there is no doubt that the PNV would make the same interested use of a policy that only corresponds to planning and execute the government.

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