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Barcelona Summit of Regional Presidents Fails to Yield Agreements

Opposition leaders pressed for early elections, the government reaffirmed its 2027 timeline, its €7 billion housing proposal was dismissed

Un agente entra en la comisaria de Dénia
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La presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, y el presidente del Gobierno de Melilla, Juan José Imbroda, durante la XXVIII Conferencia de Presidentes
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Overview

  • The conference ended without unanimous approval on housing, migration or regional financing after deep PSOE-PP polarization
  • Pedro Sánchez’s plan to triple public housing investment to €7 billion by 2030 was rejected by PP regional presidents as improvised and unconstitutional
  • Thirteen PP regional leaders, backed by some socialist barons, demanded early elections and Sánchez firmly ruled out polls until 2027
  • Isabel Díaz Ayuso walked out when Basque and Catalan were spoken, refused simultaneous-translation earpieces and spotlighted language tensions
  • Despite being the first summit in Barcelona in over two decades and accommodating co-official languages, national party agendas eclipsed regional cooperation