There is already a date for the celebration of the first bilateral meeting between the Government of Spain and the regional Executive of the Basque Country. It will be next November 6 when Pedro Sánchez and Imanol Pradales meet in Madrid and address the roadmap for make effective the 29 transfers committed by the leader of the PSOE with the PNV and get their support in the investiture and return to the Moncloa Palace after the 23-J elections.
An appointment derived from the meeting that the two leaders held in the capital on September 20, within the framework of the round of contacts with the regional presidents initiated by Sánchez, where Pradales demanded “one more march” to make the transfers before the end of this year. Among them, some of greater significance than others, such as the economic management of Social Security or security and public order for the Ertzaintza, displacing the Civil Guard, in the critical infrastructures (ports and airports) of the Basque Country.
Precisely the transfer of the latter is imminent, as confirmed to ABC by different sources in the regional police. As El Correo reported, on November 7 the Security Board (the region’s security coordination body) will hold an operational meeting, with jurisdiction over the port of Bilbao becoming effective the following day. Something that has provoked criticism among Ertzaintza agents, when they understand that They do not have the necessary means to take care of the tasks which involves the control of two maritime platforms within the port of Bilbao.
Regarding the announcement of the meeting, to “advance the agenda of cooperation between the central and Basque Government and the transfer of the pending powers of the Statute of Guernica”, comes at a time of distancing in relations between PSOE and PNV. The nationalists, however, have not shown signs of thinking about a movement that would jeopardize their support in Congress during the current legislature.
The cooling was exemplified, for example, in the announcement of the reform of the Citizen Security Law (‘gag law’, according to the terms used by leftist formations) by EH Bildu, after the PNV had made a similar proposal. to the Congress of Deputies. The socialists finally have agreed with the party led by Arnaldo Otegidisplacing the Peneuvistas from their role as ‘achievers’ in Madrid.
Furthermore, last week there had also been a shock due to tax on energy companies. The formation chaired by Andoni Ortuzar, came out in a rush to criticize the possibility of making it permanent, before the risk of migration of investments to other countriesand have demanded that, in any case, this become another tax managed by the Basque Country within the Economic Agreement.
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