Pedro Sánchez Calls for Conference of Regional Presidents on June 6 in Barcelona
The 28th edition of the conference will address pressing issues including financial system reform and immigration.
The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, has scheduled the upcoming Conference of Regional Presidents for June 6 in Barcelona, as announced by sources from Moncloa.
This will mark the 28th edition of the summit, which will take place at the Palau de Pedralbes.
On Thursday, the Presidency will inform all autonomous communities and cities about key details regarding the conference.
Subsequently, the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory will convene regional governments for a preparatory committee to establish the agenda for the meeting.
In recent weeks, several regional presidents have requested this conference to discuss various current issues, including the major blackout that occurred on April 28 and the allocation of unaccompanied immigrant minors, which led the government to take legal action against Aragón just this Tuesday.
The last conference of presidents occurred in December in Santander, where Sánchez announced that the next meeting would take place in the Catalan capital.
During the previous gathering, the government had already failed to fulfill its annual commitment to convene such conferences, as the last meeting before that had been held in the spring of 2022 in La Palma.
The Santander conference was characterized by a significant disagreement between the central government and most regional executives led by the Popular Party (PP).
The issue of debt relief offered by the president was unanimously rejected by the leaders of the main opposition party, demonstrating a united front among diverse regions such as Madrid, the Valencia Community, the populous Andalusia, and Galicia, Castilla y León, and Extremadura, the latter facing chronic infrastructure deficits and low or dispersed populations.
Even some regional socialist governments, such as that led by Emiliano García-Page in Castilla-La Mancha, did not accept the proposal.
The Barcelona meeting represents a new opportunity to address the long-pending renewal of the autonomous financial system, which has been overdue for more than a decade.
The government prioritized discussions on housing during the previous Santander meeting, although no agreement was reached on that issue.
The host for the upcoming meeting will belong to the same political party as the central government; both the Generalitat of Catalonia and the Barcelona City Council are governed by socialists Salvador Illa and Jaume Collboni.
This will mark the 28th edition of the summit, which will take place at the Palau de Pedralbes.
On Thursday, the Presidency will inform all autonomous communities and cities about key details regarding the conference.
Subsequently, the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory will convene regional governments for a preparatory committee to establish the agenda for the meeting.
In recent weeks, several regional presidents have requested this conference to discuss various current issues, including the major blackout that occurred on April 28 and the allocation of unaccompanied immigrant minors, which led the government to take legal action against Aragón just this Tuesday.
The last conference of presidents occurred in December in Santander, where Sánchez announced that the next meeting would take place in the Catalan capital.
During the previous gathering, the government had already failed to fulfill its annual commitment to convene such conferences, as the last meeting before that had been held in the spring of 2022 in La Palma.
The Santander conference was characterized by a significant disagreement between the central government and most regional executives led by the Popular Party (PP).
The issue of debt relief offered by the president was unanimously rejected by the leaders of the main opposition party, demonstrating a united front among diverse regions such as Madrid, the Valencia Community, the populous Andalusia, and Galicia, Castilla y León, and Extremadura, the latter facing chronic infrastructure deficits and low or dispersed populations.
Even some regional socialist governments, such as that led by Emiliano García-Page in Castilla-La Mancha, did not accept the proposal.
The Barcelona meeting represents a new opportunity to address the long-pending renewal of the autonomous financial system, which has been overdue for more than a decade.
The government prioritized discussions on housing during the previous Santander meeting, although no agreement was reached on that issue.
The host for the upcoming meeting will belong to the same political party as the central government; both the Generalitat of Catalonia and the Barcelona City Council are governed by socialists Salvador Illa and Jaume Collboni.
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