Feijóo has no incentives to agree with Sánchez

Alberto Núñez Feijóo asked Pedro Sánchez for time.

When both met in April, the leader of the PP was not in a position to respond to the block of proposals that could be negotiated presented by the head of the Government.

Not even five weeks have passed since that meeting, but there have been enough events for La Moncloa to have accumulated reasons to proclaim that Núñez Feijóo and Pablo Casado are united by the same strategy.

“The differences are only in decibels”, not in substance, point out interlocutors from the socialist sphere.

The fact is that the leader of the PP, who will be a senator by autonomous appointment in a couple of weeks, does not find incentives, advantages or reasons that lead to establishing a strategy of agreed reforms.

And the government does not see itself wanting or willing to enter into a cycle of talks either,

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On the government side, reasons are accumulating to ruin any expectation, according to the PP.

The popular put their proposals on the table so that the Executive includes at least one in its plans;

and, if this condition is not fulfilled, the deck is broken.

The Executive, for its part, is suspicious of the negotiation method used by the popular, which does not differ from that used by Casado, they say.

After three long years, the innumerable attempts to renew the expired governing body of the judges are buried again.

No commitment was closed at the meeting on April 7 in La Moncloa, although Sánchez insisted on the democratic failure of not renewing the constitutional bodies.

Feijóo spoke of changing the election model and they agreed to start the negotiation with the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, and the Deputy Secretary of Institutional Action and popular MEP, Esteban González Pons.

Meet and talk have done.

The two are important interlocutors, but nobody dares to ensure that there will be an agreement.

The priority for the Government is to renew the General Council of the Judiciary and not to change the model.

This modification should be addressed after the legality is fulfilled and a new Council begins its mandate.

That is not the approach of the PP, which wants to start with the change in the system of election of judicial members.

With this commitment, they argue, the names could be discussed again to replace the current members with expired mandates and their president, Carlos Lesmes.

"That's cheating", they cry out in the Government, reluctant, moreover, to change the way of choosing the members so that they are chosen among the judges.

"It's not our model, we don't think it's better at all,"

state government sources.

If this discrepancy in principle is added to the fact that the electoral campaign for the June 19 elections in Andalusia is already underway, the support to start the dialogue is very poor.

Feijóo asked Sánchez for time on April 7 when he found out about the progress of the president's proposals, advanced by EL PAÍS, on the eleven issues that could be negotiated.

There are no shouts of Feijóo from the stands where he stands every day so that his voice can be heard.

The internal skirmishes of the coalition government and the objective and serious problems that the Executive has, give the PP plenty of material to plunge into the most severe criticism.

Therefore, there is no reason to approach the Government, when Vox continues to rise and the campaign is underway.

Everything remains the same, including what unites them, such as acting as a dike in defense of the constitutional monarchy, embodied by Felipe VI, and safeguarding defense and security matters.

At the end of the month, the PP will pillory the Government for the

.

Without going into the underlying issue, he will emphasize the dismissal of the director of the CNI, Paz Esteban, and the bad place in which the members of the CNI have been left.

It will not take into account that both the President of the Government, as well as the Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, and the Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, have suffered an invasion of their communications.

This is the reason why the Government will justify the dismissal of Esteban.

But that information is not of interest to the PP, but rather to the Executive's relationship with the independentists and why he negotiated his investiture with them while the secret service was monitoring them for alleged irregularities, which, apparently, have not had a practical translation in court .

The Government is responsible, and not the CNI, according to the popular view.

They are united, however, in preventing the creation of an investigative commission in Congress from prospering.

In the rest, which is everything, including the economy, the Government knows that it can only count on its investiture bloc, despite the growing difficulties.

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