Overview
- He presents himself as an independent PSOE voice who is not seeking the party leadership, while saying he agrees with most of the government’s management.
- He reproaches Pedro Sánchez for deals with Junts, saying the pacts threw PSOE principles in the trash.
- He demands a common financing system without privileged exceptions, citing an 11-year delay and claiming the state retains a disproportionately larger share of revenues.
- He urges that negotiations occur in multilateral forums representing all regions and rejects one-off concessions to nationalist parties.
- PP regional leader Paco Núñez accuses him of cynicism and silence in Congress on funding, noting that Castilla-La Mancha’s eight PSOE deputies backed pacts with Puigdemont.