The PP wants to turn the General Commission of the Autonomous Communities of the Senate into a showcase of its territorial power. The 11 regional presidents of his party and the Canarian vice president, Manolo Domínguez, will parade there, defending “the legal, territorial and economic equality” of all Spaniards.. That is, they will not only directly oppose the amnesty for the crimes of the process, but they will also constitute a common front “to stop an asymmetric or unilateral financing system” that gives “privileges” to Catalonia.

For this reason, in front of the Catalan president, Pere Aragonès, who will be the only regional leader outside the PP who will attend the meeting, they will demand “financing between equals”, according to popular sources telling this newspaper.. The three presidents of the PSOE (Castilla-La Mancha, Navarra and Asturias) will not be on the commission, and no member of the Council of Ministers will speak even though they can do so.

Although the financial situation of the communities governed by the PP varies greatly – Murcia and the Valencian Community are the two most underfinanced, while Cantabria and La Rioja have been at the top of the list, clearly above the average -, the message will be univocal: «The presidents of the PP are going to make the voice of their autonomies heard against the representative of the coalition Government, who will be Pere Aragonès». «Aragonès will go to the Senate to defend that his territory be more than all the others, and the others will defend that no one be more than anyone. “Here lies the asymmetrical legal treatment of the amnesty and also the fear that everyone's money will be divided between two,” they explain in Genoa.

Opposition from the street

But the offensive will not be limited this week to the parliamentary sphere. With the amnesty on the nearest horizon, the popular people want to exercise preventive opposition from the institutions, but also from the streets. So the PP will once again star in a protest act like the one on September 24 in Madrid. After announcing that it would be in Malaga, the PP postponed it and is now looking for another city in which to protest this weekend.

“We are going to maintain that the message of rejection of the amnesty did not end in the Plaza de Felipe II,” in the rally-demonstration on September 24 in the streets of Madrid, sources from the national leadership of the main party of opposition to the incumbent government. «A week after Sánchez told Junqueras that they had mutual respect and a week after he shook hands with a Bildu deputy who claimed that Ortega Lara was returning to prison when he was released, the PP once again stars in an open event on the street,” say the same sources around Feijóo.

Alberto Núñez Feijóo will in any case lead the protest, to which all territorial barons who wish to attend will be invited.. The event in Malaga is left for one of the following weekends “due to the previous occupation of the planned space (Larios Street and Plaza de la Constitución)”. As for the city in which the new protest will be held, in Genoa they limit themselves to saying that “nothing is closed”. Looking for a place with great capacity. In the case of Madrid, Génova estimated an attendance of just over 10,000 people, and ended up counting more than 65,000. That's why now they don't want to get their fingers caught.

And they reveal that there will be more mobilizations of this type if Sánchez's investiture is delayed until mid-November. As long as they have time, the PP leaders will continue organizing acts of preventive opposition to the amnesty, because they consider that it represents a breach of the principle of “equality between all Spaniards” enshrined in the Constitution.

Three days before the street mobilization this weekend, the PP will show its autonomous chest in the Upper House: «When Aragonès defends the amnesty and that Catalonia is given more than the others, we will exhibit territorial muscle and defend something so basic like we are all equal”. “If we cannot control the Government in a Congress that remains inoperative” because Francina Armengol has not wanted to speed up the “usual” parliamentary procedures, they say in Genoa, “we will do it in the Senate”, although the PSOE will not be represented or by their presidents or by the Government.

So the socialists will give all the focus to Aragonès (ERC) and the 12 leaders of the PP. The spokesperson for the Popular Party in the General Commission of Autonomous Communities, Antonio Silván, yesterday asked the acting Government for “respect for the Senate and the Spaniards”, so “they should attend the session”. “It seems that on this occasion the president of the Generalitat of Catalonia respects the Senate more than the Government,” he concluded.