However, the Minister of Self-Government Olatz Garamendi believes that “there is no will to promote the process of transfers in the Spanish Executive”, and demands compliance.
The Spanish Minister of Territorial Policy, Isabel Rodríguez, has agreed with the Basque Government to transfer the competence of the Minimum Vital Income (IMV) indefinitely, according to the Minister of Self-Government, Olatz Garamendi.
In an interview given to the daily Call, Garamendi has revealed that last Thursday he cleared with Rodríguez that the transfer would not have an expiration date after the proposal that was transferred to the Basque Government so that it was, in principle, for a limited period of ten years, something that came from the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, José Luis Escrivá.
This approach, which had to be the subject of negotiation, led the Minister to warn that she would not accept “damaged merchandise”, while the PNV warned the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, that it could mean breaking his support for the Executive.
Olatz Garamendi explained that, in the proposal, terms of ten years, automatically renewable, were proposed. “It is not very well understood, in the sense that a transfer is consubstantial that it is sine die. We are in for a big surprise,” he assured.
However, he has pointed out that he has subsequently had the opportunity to “work on the subject and talk about it” with Isabel Rodríguez. The head of self-government defended before the minister that the transfer must materialize without the existence of deadlines.
Garamendi has pointed out that Rodríguez “understands it, has accepted it and has agreed to have an indefinite term”. “A transfer cannot have a deadline. It is a transfer in which the autonomous community is subrogated, puts itself in the position of the State Administration, in a competence that is inherent to it by the Gernika Statute“, he pointed out.
“A transfer with an expiration date would entail a risk because, if there is a change of government in Madrid, the next one, especially if it belongs to another party, could not be bound by that agreement and not extend it”, he indicated.
In any case, it seems risky to give a date to complete the transfer. “We are not going to give up, always under the premise that the transfer is carried out in full and with all the guarantees,” he warned.
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