• Investidura.Pedro Sánchez, willing to meet with Quim Torra "as soon as possible" to resolve "the political conflict" in Catalonia

Neither the AVE to Galicia , nor the payment of the VAT settlement, nor the improvement of the Tajo-Segura transfer , nor the problems of the Mar Menor , nor the improvement of the railway network of Castilla y León . Pedro Sánchez did not commit yesterday to any of the great requests made by the barons of the PP in the round of telephone consultations with the regional presidents. At the same time, the acting president did commit to maintain a bilateral relationship with regional leaders, as requested by Quim Torra, president of the Generalitat , and to promote dialogue between the autonomies in the Senate, as demanded by the PSC in search of of "a new territorial pact".

The PP wants to be a "containment dam" before the negotiation strategy of Pedro Sánchez and the independentistas, but four of the five popular regional presidents took the opportunity to transfer their great claims to the president: Alberto Núñez Feijóo ( Galicia ), Juanma Moreno ( Andalusia ), Fernando López Miras ( Murcia ) and Alfonso Fernández Mañueco ( Castilla y León ). All of them took the refusal or silence by response, except for a specific case: Feijóo asked Sánchez to make a "personal" management with the managers of Alcoa "to keep that company open, and in Galicia", and the president He has committed to it.

Not so with the completion of the AVE line to Galicia, nor to release before the end of the year the 2.5 billion euros that the Central Administration owes to the autonomies for the VAT clearance of December 2017, a game that belongs to them to them and that will swell their deficit instead of going to basic services such as education, healthcare or paying bills to suppliers.

Feijóo, who was the first president of the PP to speak with Sánchez, according to the order of seniority of the statutes of autonomy, demanded that he pay immediately, "in the next few days", that debt, because "it is not possible to start a legislature of territorial distension »if the Government is the main culprit of the economic asphyxiation of the autonomies and the main« delinquent ». On the contrary, if you do not pay them, "the greatest territorial tension that is remembered" would occur.

Isabel Díaz Ayuso, president of the Community of Madrid , made no request to Sánchez, considering that her contact - by phone, and to mask the call to Torra - did not keep the appropriate institutional forms, and a formal meeting should take place.

Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, president of Castilla y León also demanded that Sánchez "pay his debts" to the autonomies. And he demanded that “the pending infrastructure” of his community be expedited, especially the Northwest AVE Corridor, the conventional rail network and the highways. And he urged Sanchez to bet more on the agricultural sector and approve a "shock" plan for the transition of the mining and thermal sectors. In the latter there was "coincidence" between them.

The most pressing problem for the president of the Junta de Andalucía is the "intervention" that, in his opinion, the Ministry of Finance has made of the Andalusian public accounts. Moreno was blunt: "My hand is extended to dialogue, but you will always find me in front of you if you intend to mistreat my land." "The Government of Andalusia will continue to firmly defend the interests of all Andalusians," he said.

Fernando López Miras, president of the Region of Murcia , took the opportunity, after sending 11 letters to the Government of Spain, to transfer to Sanchez that he "will value the new Executive" based on how the regional financing system improves so that he does not continue strangling to the Region of Murcia, depending on the measures taken in regard to the Tajo-Segura transfer, which are far removed from those that must be taken, and from their commitment and involvement with the recovery of the Mar Menor », indicate sources of its government. But Sanchez "has not even answered" the issues of water.

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