Today in the Senate the PP exhibits its territorial strength to oppose the amnesty, with the absence of the Government

Aragonés attends this summit of presidents in the Senate by surprise and will be the first to intervene, although he will leave after speaking

MADRID, 18 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The PP has convened the Commission of the Autonomous Communities this Thursday in the Senate to stage the rejection of the amnesty of its territorial power, with the intervention of all its regional presidents in this forum, to which not even the Government of Pedro Sánchez will attend. nor the barons of the PSOE, although the Catalan president, Pere Aragonés, will do so.

Those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo asserted their absolute majority in the Senate to force the convening of this summit of regional presidents and use it as a loudspeaker for the barons to position themselves on a hypothetical amnesty law in the negotiation between the independentistas and the socialist candidate, Pedro Sánchez.

In this context, the PP scheduled the CCAA Commission for this Thursday, October 19, with the presence of all the 'popular' regional presidents to raise their voices against this amnesty law, in the midst of negotiations between the independentistas and Sánchez, still undated. for the investiture.

For their part, the three regional presidents of the PSOE - Emiliano García-Page, María Chivite and Adrián Barbón - refused to attend this meeting in the Senate, accusing the PP of using it in a partisan manner, while the president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo has delegated his representation to the vice president of the PP, Manuel Domínguez. The Lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, will not attend either.

Who will be there will be the president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, who this Tuesday announced by surprise that he would attend the Senate in person to defend the amnesty and the referendum in the midst of negotiations with the PSOE.

In fact, he will be in charge of opening this session starting at 11:00 a.m., since it is his responsibility in order of approval of the Statute of Autonomy, although the Generalitat has already announced that he will leave right after speaking and will not stay to listen to the presidents of the PP.

And it will be the first time that a Catalan president goes to the Senate, to a multilateral forum, after this Chamber approved article 155 of the Spanish Constitution in 2017. From the Generalitat they explain that Aragonés goes to this forum to defend amnesty and self-determination.

In any case, Aragonés will be able to make his intervention in Catalan because this committee is one of the spaces in which co-official languages ​​can be used in the Upper House.

Aragonés' announcement also coincided with the decision of the Government of Pedro Sánchez not to attend this general commission of the CCAA of the Senate, leaving the role to the barons of the PP and the Catalan president, in addition to the parliamentary groups.

The Government spokesperson and acting Minister of Territorial Policy, Isabel Rodríguez, was in charge of verbalizing the refusal to go to this commission because, in her opinion, the 'popular' people intend to use it to "cringe."

In this way, the socialists will be represented in this Commission by their spokesperson in this forum and leader of the Andalusian PSOE, Juan Espadas, although as Europa Press has been informed, the former president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Ximo Puig, has also formally requested to intervene given his status as a senator by autonomous designation, although it remains to be confirmed whether he will finally take the floor.

The Commission's agenda establishes that the first to intervene would be the Government and then the Lehendakari, but since both have declined to attend, it leaves the opening of the session to the Catalan president Pere Aragonés.

The interventions of the regional presidents are set in order of approval of the Statutes of Autonomy and each regional leader has a maximum period of ten minutes to make their presentation on the platform.

In this way, after Aragonès they will speak - in this order - Alfonso Rueda (Galicia); Juanma Moreno (Andalusia); the representative of Asturias if he decides to attend; María José Sáenz de Buruaga (Cantabria); Gonzalo Capellán (La Rioja); Fernando López Miras (Murcia); Carlos Mazón (Valencian Community); Jorge Azcón (Aragon); the representative of Castilla-La Mancha if he decides to attend; Manuel Domínguez (Canary Islands); the representative of Navarra if he decides to attend; María Guardiola (Extremadura); Marga Prohens (Balearic Islands); Isabel Díaz Ayuso (Madrid); Alfonso Fernández Mañueco (Castilla y León); Juan Jesús Vivas (Ceuta) and Juan José Imbroda (Melilla).

And after these, the senators by autonomous designation who have decided to speak will take the floor, as may be the case of Ximo Puig, and then it will be the turn of the spokespersons for the parliamentary groups.

In any case, this agenda establishes that there will not be a cross-debate between any of the participants, since only the central government has the power to respond to the presidents and the parliamentary groups in this commission.