The BNG leadership gave the go-ahead this Friday in agreement with the PSOE for its only deputy in Congress, Néstor Rego, to support the investiture of Pedro Sánchez. The pact, which still needs to close some details, includes the commitment of the socialists so that Galicia receives “compensation analogous” to any debt reduction or forgiveness granted to Catalonia or other autonomous communities adhering to the Autonomous Liquidity Fund (FLA). . The negotiating teams of both parties have not specified what this compensation will consist of, taking into account that Galicia has never resorted to the FLA for financing nor does it maintain the level of debt of other territories with the State. But Bloc sources assure that they will be measures that will guarantee non-discrimination against other autonomies.
The agreement, which comes with the Galician elections scheduled for a few months, includes five new courts specialized in gender violence that will be located in Pontevedra, Santiago, Ferrol, Lugo and Ourense, and the creation of a commuter train service. in Galicia, with the opening of lines between Vigo and Pontevedra and between A Coruña and Ferrol during this term. The PSOE also undertakes to reactivate from the Government the transfer to the Xunta of powers included in the Statute of Autonomy that remain in the hands of the State, a process that has been paralyzed since the PP regained power in Galicia in 2009. If the investiture de Sánchez goes ahead, the mixed commission of the Xunta and the central Government that addresses these transfers will meet before the end of the year and will design a calendar.
Other points of the agreement are to guarantee that returned Galician emigrants do not suffer double taxation on their pensions, recover railway frequencies prior to the pandemic, advance in the Atlantic Freight Corridor and increase discounts on AP toll highways to 75% -9 and AP-53 for drivers who use them frequently. In the case of the AP-9, which connects the entire Atlantic strip of the community from north to south, the pact between the BNG and the PSOE includes its transfer to the Xunta, an issue that despite being supported by all the parties in Galicia has been blocked for years in the Congress of Deputies by socialists and popular ones.
After the extraordinary meeting of the BNG executive in which the agreement was given the green light, Rego has pointed out that it is not a budget or legislative pact. At the same time that the nationalists endorsed the result of their negotiation with the socialists, the president of the Xunta, the popular Alfonso Rueda, urgently met with his government to stage his rejection of the PSOE concessions to ERC to try to complete the investiture of Sánchez .
Rueda has delivered an institutional statement in which, without mentioning the compensation agreed upon by the Galician nationalists, he has censured the “grief” that in his opinion it means for Galicia that Catalonia is forgiven 15,000 million euros of debt. The successor of Alberto Núñez Feijóo at the head of the Galician Government has demanded the convening of the Conference of Presidents. “What is going to be done is to distribute among all Spaniards the debt accumulated by a single community,” he assured. “It will be an additional charge of more than 400 euros [por cada gallego] of a debt that is not ours.” The leader of the Bloc, Ana Pontón, has disgraced Rueda for appearing “angry” following the “dictates of Genoa” and has asked him “not to put a spanner in the works” to the measures achieved in his agreement with the PSOE.
Just a few months before the first regional elections are called that the PP will face without Feijóo as the headliner, the socialist candidate for the Presidency of the Xunta, José Ramón Gómez Besteiro, has highlighted that the agreement with the BNG “goes further of the arithmetical needs to obtain an investiture.” The socialist affirms that it is only a “first part” of his party’s commitment “for and for Galicia.”
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