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The president of the

Community of Madrid

, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, distances herself from the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and has contested before the Supreme Court the distribution of European funds that she considers illegal.

"That distribution to specific communities was arbitrary and there are no changes, we maintain the resource," a presidential spokesman told this newspaper.

This is the allocation of nine million euros to promote employment in the

Valencian Community, Extremadura, Navarra

and

the Basque Country

charged to European funds approved by the Council of Ministers last October.

The

Government of Galicia

He also considered it arbitrary and illegal and Feijóo sent a request to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, as a previous step to second the appeal before the Supreme Court of Isabel Díaz Ayuso.

Finally, as published this Sunday by EL MUNDO, the president of the Xunta has decided to give up this legal battle after the commitment of the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, to extend these resources to all the autonomous communities last week.

Official sources of the Xunta maintain that Díaz's promise to launch a call with room for all communities represents a rectification and avoids "a sterile confrontation" in court.

However, Díaz Ayuso supports the vision of his Minister of the Treasury,

Javier Fernández-Lasquetty

, who considered the promise of the

Ministry of Labor

at the

Employment Sector Conference

last Wednesday to be unspecific.

According to the sources consulted, not Díaz, but the Secretary of State for Labor,

Joaquín Pérez Rey

, limited himself to pointing out that they were pilot programs, that the amount was insignificant and that if those plans work they will be extended to other communities, but without Lasquetty perceiving the rectification that Feijóo does value.

In fact, the representatives of several PP communities asked for more specificity.

Lasquetty sees no guarantees of correcting the favored treatment of four Autonomous Communities

These sources also point out that while the president of the Xunta chose to take previous steps with the aforementioned request, the Madrid regional government decided to challenge the Supreme Court directly as Lasquetty had no response to a letter asking Díaz for explanations about the aforementioned Royal Decree of October .

The regional government announced the presentation of its appeal on January 12 against the distribution of nine million euros from European funds to four communities in which the PSOE participates in their governments not so much because of the figure, but because of the precedent that supposed.

"It is intolerable," he then told the Madrid president.

«The distribution was arbitrary.

We continue with the resource”, says the regional Executive

“The regional Executive understands that this decision has been approved without any justification, without previously making it known at the Sectoral Conference and violating the legally established division of powers in employment matters.

To all this is added that at no time has it been clarified for what reason the rest of the regional administrations have been left out of the distribution and in a discriminatory manner, ”the regional government explained that day in an official statement.

For the central government, it is a very uncomfortable judicialization due to the signal that it supposes for the European Commission that regional governments denounce favorable treatment with European money.

Feijóo's signal was confirmed to this newspaper after his meeting with Pedro Sánchez in

Moncloa

.

However, at that meeting they did not reach any agreement on the main problem and that is the lack of agreement on the management of European funds and with what priorities it should be applied in the current economic situation.

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