Post by account_disabled on Feb 24, 2024 22:49:48 GMT -5
The diplomatic sources to which this confidentiality has had access explain that, “with this policy of recovering international influence, Spain has more possibilities of accessing the UN Security Council .” This objective, recognized by the Government itself last September, when Rajoy and Margallo promoted the Spanish candidacy for the current vacancy , "is one of the priorities for next year, although it will not be easy to achieve." The Executive recognizes that the other two 'rivals' to compete for that position, Turkey and New Zealand, “are very well positioned because the first have the support of the Arab and Muslim world, and the second of the small countries of the Pacific and of the Commonwealth, but we also have possibilities.”As El Confidencial Digital has learned , Mariano Rajoy plans to take an important step next year in the reduction of autonomous bodies, a demand that the European Commission has been transmitting to him since he arrived at the Moncloa, and that the Government has not yet addressed in detail. clear way. As reported in these pages , Brussels has demanded that Spain eliminate 2,700 regional entities of the more than 5,000 that currently exist, with the aim of avoiding new bailouts to autonomous communities and guaranteeing compliance with the deficit in 2013 and 2014. The Government is aware of the need to begin this important reduction now and will announce next January in the EU the elimination of 600 autonomous organizations throughout the next financial year.
Goodbye to ombudsmen, delegations abroad... To decide which autonomous Special Database bodies must be eliminated, the Government is preparing a report to find out the duplications that occur between the different regional entities, with respect to the state ones, and in this way justify their elimination. Although there is not yet a closed list with all the organizations to be eliminated, sources from the Spanish delegation in the European Parliament point to: -- The regional ombudsmen : They fulfill the same functions as the one that exists at the state level and are the first to be eliminated. Some regions with a 'popular' government, such as Castilla-La Mancha, have already opted for its elimination. -- Delegations abroad : Currently, the autonomous communities have Government delegations in Madrid and also in some European countries, where they act as foreign representation bodies or 'embassies'. Their maintenance is expensive and Rajoy is determined to put an end to them. -- Competition defense bodies : The so-called Regional Competition Commissions or Courts for the Defense of Competition cause, in the opinion of the Government, a “great duplication in their functions” with respect to the National Competition Commission, which is why They will also be deleted.
The Economic and Social Councils : Castilla-La Mancha have already announced their dissolution and Rajoy wants to extend this decision to the rest of Spain. -- Autonomous Justice Councils : Their creation was approved by Zapatero's socialist government, and since then they have served as a demand for regions with nationalist or independence aspirations. Catalonia has already created its own and other communities have already announced projects to inaugurate them, and that the Executive will try to stop. -- Town councils with less than 1,500 inhabitants : In addition to these autonomous bodies, the Government will maintain its commitment to eliminating small town councils, which will be merged with larger municipal executives. The Xunta de Núñez Feijóo is the one that is applying this formula the most. Rajoy will promote meetings with the regional governments The Government is aware that in several autonomous communities they will encounter greater resistance to the suppression of certain autonomous bodies , especially those that are not governed by the PP. For this reason, Moncloa is developing a calendar of meetings with the regional Executives to promote legislative initiatives at the national level that put an end to these organizations.