The director of the Cabinet of the Presidency of the Government, Oscar Lopeztelephoned her counterpart in Genoa on Monday, Marta Varela, to lay the foundations for a meeting of Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and offer three dates. Varela responded by demanding the agenda in writing, so he could expand it and “make it official.” Lopez was surprised. Three days later, the PP awaits that document as the first unavoidable condition for the meeting to take place. The second is that La Moncloa accepts all the points that Feijóo includes in that meeting script. Yes or yes.
A third impediment has now been added to this climate of mistrust: the motion of censure in which the Socialist Party of Navarra will hand over the Mayor’s Office of Pamplona to Bildu, just a month after Sánchez boasted in his investiture session of being the key force to support the mayor of UPN, Cristina Ibarrola.
That is why in Genoa they leave the meeting up in the air today and, if it occurs, they believe that there is no longer room for understanding. Feijóo considers that this turn by the socialists marks a turning point that further distances any possibility of pacts with Sánchez, to the point of considering them “impossible” today, if he does not dramatically change course and partners.
Feijóo’s team insists that “as long as there is no written agenda that we will change at our convenience, there is no meeting to talk about.” What they suspect in the national leadership of the PP is that La Moncloa wanted to divert the focus of attention from the plenary session on the amnesty that was held on Tuesday in the Congress of Deputies.
At a Henneo group event held in Madrid together with the president of Aragon, Jorge Azcon, Feijóo criticized the “hooded pact” of the Socialist Party of Navarra with Bildu in Pamplona and warned that “as long as Sánchez continues along the chosen path and with these companions, it may be impossible” to reach any agreement. “If the possibilities of understanding were not many, from today they are much less,” he concluded.
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