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A week ago, the Ajuria Enea Palace met with the presidents of Catalonia and the Basque Country. From the meeting, held on a holiday and without prior notice to the media, only Artur Mas's promise to “continue to the end” in his sovereignty project has emerged. However, the conclave also served for both leaders to agree on joint strategies. As El Confidencial Digital has learned , the main topic of the meeting was the joint demand for a new model of State for Spain , in the context of the independence demands of both Catalonia and the Basque Country. Íñigo Urkullu, who first heard the calendar planned by Mas in the Generalitat, “took the lead.” The Lehendakari proposed to the 'president' the joint promotion, through the regional parliaments and later in Madrid, of motions and non-law proposals to modify articles 1 and 2 of the Constitution . Urkullu's objective, which Mas shared, is “to open the door to the recognition of more nations, in addition to Spain, in the State.” The Basque bet: a plurinational republic The sources consulted by ECD explain that “the roadmap is already marked, but now we have to put nuances into it.” In this sense, they affirm that recognizing Catalonia or Euskadi as a nation would facilitate, for example, the celebration of the independence referendum that Artur Mas has called for next November 9. However, “we want to advance further.” The objective of Urkullu and Mas “is not only to look for formulas to legalize the consultation”, but also to promote an in-depth debate on the current constitutional model of Spain , and the distribution of powers between the different regions of the country.
To this end, the Lehendakari proposed to his Catalan counterpart the joint defense of a clear proposal: the creation in Spain of a plurinational republic , in which each “nation” would have a government and powers absolutely independent of the rest of the State. From the Phone Number List PNV they assure that CiU's predisposition towards this project is "good" , since "it interests them in view of the November referendum." Both parties, which will go to the European elections in coalition, will also present this State model in the Strasbourg Parliament, after the elections on May 25.The national leadership of the PSOE, led by Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, had been aware for ten days of Guillermo Fernández Vara's decision to present a motion of censure in the debate on the state of the Extremadura region. The regional leader of the party will negotiate tomorrow with Pedro Escobar (IU) for his support in Parliament. As El Confidencial Digital has learned , Fernández Vara contacted the general secretary two weeks ago . The man from Extremadura announced to Rubalcaba his intention to present a motion of censure against Monago if the president of the Board did not accept, in the autonomous Chamber, a stability plan from the socialists for the rest of the legislature. The leader of the PSOE gave his approval to the decision of the regional baron, although both agreed to speak again yesterday morning, to agree on the roadmap of the Extremaduran socialists.
Fernández Vara, in addition to calling Rubalcaba, spoke with Elena Valenciano and Óscar López to tell them about the steps he was going to take in the region. A PSOE survey places it two points above the PP After Guillermo Fernández Vara's announcement in the Extremaduran Parliament, José Antonio Monago and other PP leaders reproached the socialist for trying to make “a flight forward”, knowing that electoral polls gave greater voting intention to the popular ones. People very close to the regional leader of the PSOE, consulted by this newspaper, assure that the party has its " own survey ", carried out "a year ago", that shows the socialists an advantage of two points over the 'popular' . The Socialist Party recognizes, however, that there is also a Vocento survey, which gives the PP between 31 and 32 seats, the PSOE 29-30, and IU 4 or 5 . The aforementioned sources also add that Guillermo Fernández Vara will once again present himself as a PSOE candidate in the regional elections of Extremadura in 2015, thus denying some insinuations from Monago and his team, who took the resignation of the former president of the Board for granted. Regarding the reasons why Vara has presented this motion of censure, the regionalist baron's entourage has cited the 750 million euro drop in GDP in Extremadura ; the 92,600 long-term unemployed, and the lack of convergence of the region with the rest of Spain.