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Consulted, the landing of ministers in Barcelona has only just begun. The meetings at the highest level between senior Government officials and prominent businessmen living in Barcelona are expected to intensify in the coming weeks. However, the Executive will try to keep the contacts discreet and private , to prevent media noise from spoiling the offensive launched in Catalan territory. Moncloa prepares a great employer event As announced in these pages, Rajoy also plans to travel to Barcelona on May 10 to meet at a large employers' event with a large group of Catalan businessmen , with whom he seeks to establish channels to unblock tensions and resolve the problem. disagreement between the central Executive and the Generalitat. The President of the Government will take advantage of his time at the Barcelona Motor Show , which will take place from May 9 to 19, to try to win over the Catalan business world.As El Confidencial Digital has learned , the message reached Navarro from the secretary general after the three-way interview held in Ferraz between the PSC leader himself, Artur Mas, and Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba: “ A government pact with CiU would be very good to the party .
Specifically, Rubalcaba and his team of collaborators let the PSC leadership know that entry into the Generalitat would mean three great successes for the socialists , both nationally and in Catalonia. These were their arguments: -- Avoid the independence South Korea Phone Number process . Rubalcaba's idea, and he made it known to Artur Mas in Madrid, was to "change sovereignty for federalism", that is, for "CiU to accept the Government pact in exchange for defending a federal State for Catalonia." -- Start a dialogue with CiU in view of the general elections . The leader of the PSOE considered that agreeing with Mas would mean “saving his Government”, and would open the doors to future collaborations, in the face of a hypothetical electoral scenario, after the next general elections, in which the socialists would need the convergents to remove the PP of La Moncloa. --“ We need to govern.” Furthermore, Ferraz conveyed that “the PSOE needs to govern, not only because of the economic problems, but also because we show that we can be an alternative and that there is another way of doing things.
Pere Navarro has ruled out any pact with Mas At the beginning of April, according to well-placed sources in the PSC, “Navarro may have considered the idea of reaching an agreement at some point, but he soon realized that any understanding, in addition to being impossible, will seriously harm us .” Catalan socialist leaders acknowledge that “there have been conversations with people from Artur Mas' team, but no positions were reached and any agreement has been ruled out .” Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba himself has already been informed of this position , and has received the following explanation: “Here in Catalonia, agreeing with Mas does not benefit anyone because Mas is not well regarded by the electorate. "It would cause a bill for our voters that is impossible to recover . " This Monday he gave an interview to the newspaper El Mundo in which he insisted that the PSOE should forget about the Primaries and focus on the unemployment suffered by Spaniards. However, he took advantage of the opportunity to mark distances with Rubalcaba and did not rule himself out of the succession race. He stated, in fact, that his “place” is in the Basque Country but that “when other issues arise, we will see .