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Former senior officials and former leaders of the PSOE, the PP and Citizens will work together to promote state pacts and major agreements by the center between these three major parties. A large cast of specialists in public management will be part of the Advisory Council of a new cross-sectional think tank that the Esade business school has just created and will have its first meeting this Friday.

In times of maximum political polarization and pacts for the extremes, either with Podemos and the independentists or with Vox, this think tank will propose agreements between the PP, the PSOE and Citizens, which address the great pending reforms, as it has been able Know THE WORLD.

The former head of Cs Toni Roldán directs the center and has been looking for the team that will work in the think tank of the Higher School of Business Administration and Management (Esade) for two months. His intention was to form a cross-sectional and independent group of experts. And, seeing the origin of its members, it has succeeded.

"Our goal is to work together, find common ground, build bridges and promote reforms," ​​Roldán explained to this newspaper, "and this will be the only place from which former leaders of the PSOE, the PP and Citizens are going to collaborate to do it ".

As Roldán laments, the current socialist and popular directorates refuse to seek agreements between the two great parties. Citizens has become, after the resignation of Albert Rivera, the only political formation that demands a "great constitutionalist agreement" not only for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, but also to carry out the fundamental budgets and reforms with the broad parliamentary majority that they contribute the three: 221 seats of 350.

Charges of governments of the PSOE and the PP

Among the experts signed by Roldán are the former minister and current president of Red Eléctrica Jordi Sevilla (PSOE) and former senior officials of the governments of the two parties such as Alberto Nadal (PP) or David Vegara (former Secretary of State of Economy of the PSOE ) or Luz Rodríguez , who were senior positions with José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

Personalities such as Javier Solana , former socialist minister and former high representative for the European Union's Foreign Policy, are also expected to collaborate with this team, as this newspaper has learned.

The think tank will be called Esade Economic Policy and Political Economy ( EsadeEcPol ) and will start working right after Pedro Sánchez has closed a pact with United We can on the left. And when the leader of the PSOE is negotiating with Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) his support for the investiture.

Some of the people who are now going to advocate agreements between the PSOE, the PP and Cs were in previous executives of the Sanchez PSOE, such as Luz Rodríguez, who was Secretary of State for Employment with Zapatero and then Secretary of Employment with the current president in functions; or former minister Jordi Sevilla himself, who was Sánchez's economic advisor.

The first work of the center, which will be presented in the first quarter of 2020, will be a pact for politically viable education . In the coming months, Esade will also do studies and proposals to face the demographic challenge, the digital challenge, the reconstruction of the Welfare State, the green budgetary policies or the institutional reforms necessary to reduce corruption.

Move your proposals to the parties

Esade sources explain that the center will not only study what to do, but how to do it and how to carry out its proposals. That is why, after the publication of the works, the think tank plans to transfer them to the main political parties so that they can work together and look for points in common.

The president of the Advisory Board will be Ana Revenga , a doctor in Economics from Harvard University, a professor in Georgetown and a member of the Brookings Institution. Along with her will also work doctors in Economics José Ignacio Conde-Ruiz and Pedro Rey .

In addition to those mentioned, the economist Francisco de la Torre , who resigned from the management of Cs when the party decided to veto any agreement with the PSOE; climate change expert Laura Díaz ; Rafael Doménech , Head of Economic Analysis at BBVA Research; the former president of Renfe Pablo Vázquez , or Sandra León , former director of the Office of the High Commissioner against Child Poverty, among others.

A TRANSVERSAL CENTER

Toni Roldan. This economist was secretary of Citizen Programs and deputy until he resigned denouncing a turn to the right of the party. Now, he will direct Esade's 'think tank'.

Jordi Sevilla. Former Minister of Public Administration. President of Red Eléctrica. He was in the Executive of Zapatero and was an economic advisor to Pedro Sánchez between 2015 and 2016.

Alberto Nadal This lawyer and economist was Secretary of State for Energy and also for Budgets in different governments of Mariano Rajoy.

David Vegara He was general secretary of Economy and 'number two' of Pedro Solbes until the resignation of the then vice president. Then he worked at the International Monetary Fund and the European Rescue Fund. He is currently a manager of Sabadell.

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