Castilla-La Mancha President Emiliano García Page defended the move in an extensive interview with La Hora de la 1 newspaper. Its role as a free and autonomous voice within the PSOE is As he emphasized, it’s not because of tactical inconsistency, but consistency. … In this regard, he asserted that his position is not marginal within the party and that the PSOE is much broader than the position of general secretary.
Mr. Page began by remembering that socialism’s internal culture has always supported debate and criticism.. “Rational and healthy criticism and self-criticism have always existed and even existed in the PSOE,” he said, making it clear that despite their differences in public positions, they share most of the central executive’s actions. “I agree with 90% of how the government is run.”he said.
One of the most important moments in the interview was when he flatly refused to see himself as a replacement for Pedro Sanchez. “Do you consider yourself an alternative to the Socialist Party leadership?«No, to be honest, it’s different. I can’t see it.”he answered. And he explained that his freedom of judgment stems, among other things, from his lack of organic ambition. “I don’t have any desire to climb, like Ivy, for example.”Page added that he has received “a lot of misunderstandings, not to mention a lot of insults and attacks” for speaking his mind.
Mr Page wanted to make clear that his approach was not to play the role of a dissident within the party.«There’s no way someone who says the same things I’ve always defended is a dissident.» he explained. In his opinion, his position is not exceptional, but is widely shared among militant and socialist voters. And PSOE has a lot.
During the interview, the regional president also He spoke about the current leadership of the PSOE and stressed the need to differentiate between the party and the general secretary. He naturally stated that he would always vote for the PSOE, but he distanced himself from the inner workings and decision-making of the federal leadership.
Similarly, he explained that his relationship with Pedro Sánchez is friendly but practically non-existent in a political sense. “My relationship with Sanchez, I’m not going to lie, is not fluid at all.” In this sense, he said, there has been little relevant political conversation over the past 10 years: “I have not been consulted at all. I would say from the beginning.”
regional finance
At the regional level, Garcia-Page used the conversation to solidify his position on the impending Fiscal and Monetary Policy Council. He regretted the 11-year delay in negotiating a new funding model, saying that this delay had benefited the central government. “Today, the provinces receive a lot of money, but the autonomous governments are also playing their part, and the provinces receive almost three times as much.”
“All this time, the costs autonomous communities are spending on public services have not really been adjusted. Castilla-La Mancha is undergoing debt reduction, but this funding gap must be resolved through borrowing, reductions or other reductions. In short, this effort we are making to maintain a welfare state in our boroughs is being poorly resourced and clearly inadequate. In fact, we will see how the government announces on Monday that it will provide a large amount of funding,” said the president of Castilla-La Mancha.
Similarly, he advocated the need for a non-privileged lending system. “We want this system to remain commonplace. “Let’s not have a privileged singularity, because every community has our singularity.”
The President also referred to the processing of the new Castilla-La Mancha Autonomy Act agreed between the PSOE and the PP. He defended its importance for modernizing the region’s institutional functioning and ending the imbalances inherited from the reforms promoted under María Dolores de Cospedal. In this sense, he emphasized the problems of representation arising from the size of the current parliament. “We have 33 members in five states, and we have very poor representation.”declared the President of Castilla-La Mancha, recalling that the community has no mechanism for the early dissolution of Cortés.
Finally, He emphasized the protection of public services as one of the core parts of the reform.“We will raise the protection of public health, public education and social welfare to the highest level of guarantee,” he said, confident that this strengthening would allow citizens to assert their rights in court if their rights were violated in the future.
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