Money and vaccines.

Simultaneously announcing that

the autonomous communities will manage 55% of European funds

- that is, 10,500 of the 19,000 million in aid planned for this year - and that

3.4 million additional doses of Pfizer

will arrive in August

,

Sánchez

tried yesterday to weather the anger of the autonomies (not only those of the PP) with this format of the

Conference of Presidents

.

A meeting that comes to consecrate what the PSOE calls "multilevel Spain" and that is nothing other than the tr

unequal agreement that the territories deserve depending on whether or not the parties of their presidents support Sánchez in the Cortes.

That

Urkullu

have agreed to take their picture with the others only after they have received their particular ration of millions, and that

Aragonese

has not deigned to appear because for that he already has

a bilateral table

programmed with Sánchez, they reveal the purely propaganda value of the Salamanca session.

Whose regulation, in theory, postulates an agenda with specific contents previously agreed upon in preparatory meetings, an extreme that Sánchez fails to comply with, as they have denounced

Feijóo

or

Ayuso

.

The problem with knockouts, as always, is the fine print.

The promise to delegate part of the management of the funds to the communities comes after Madrid denounced that

The Government intends to make aid for tourism conditional on regional support for its plans for the distribution and destination of that money

.

For this reason, barons of diverse political character such as

Manueco

o Urkullu, as before the presidents of Andalusia or Galicia, have demanded a true decision-making capacity over these funds: they do not want to be mere management of the money that Moncloa decides, distributes and allocates.

It is

the trick of the sanchista notion of co-governance

: endorse unpopular decisions on the pandemic on the autonomies but then retain ultimate control over money.

What will be

Maria Jesus Montero

The person in charge of chairing the sectoral commission for the funds to be distributed to the different territories is very revealing regarding the real scope of this theoretical budgetary co-governance.

As for vaccines, welcome are all the additional doses that Health is able to bring.

The problem is that

They are late to avoid the fifth wave and of course to save much of the tourist season

.

Sánchez promised that by the end of August we would reach 70% immunization, but that figure no longer marks the

herd immunity

- The Delta variant of the virus has made it obsolete.

Sánchez himself has recognized that at least 85% of Spaniards with the complete guideline are needed to now achieve the desired group immunity.

It is assumed that the remodeling of the Executive was due to the commitment of

prioritize management over image

.

Days go by and there is no significant change in Moncloa's modus operandi.

Which is still installed in the short dribble to the opposition, the cosmetic turn and the propaganda advertisement.

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