It was, significantly, in the office of the Congress of Deputies that is Mariano Rajoy as leader of the Opposition is not the only government building in the old palace of the Carrera de San Jeronimo.
The leader of the PNV, Iñigo Urkullu, came to meet him. Both had only one intention: to show that they can speak with their worst enemies because that is democratic. Both, at the end of the meeting was confirmed by making clear that it has broken the ice in their relations but maintain the cold war, the political distance that separates them, and that the PP will continue to support Lopez as Lendakari PNV and the PSOE to statutory power shift in the General State Budget (PGE) for the year. This was it. So much so that Urkullu, the first to address reporters waiting to see if the meeting was starting a new stage in which PP and PNV agreed to take José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, as made clear from the first minute.
This, he said, is only a first contact to make clear that we can speak honestly, without deception, and in order to reach specific agreements, mainly in the Parliament, something that has occurred in recent weeks, although, to force a defeat of the PSOE in Congress.
The two leaders agreed yesterday stressed that nothing, not even in the face to Debate State of the Nation next week. It was, as made clear Rajoy, to mend relations between the two parties formal, broken since the PP supported Lopez as Lendakari Basque regional elections after Esukadi. Rajoy was who defined it as well as darkly: “This is a process of relationship Stará necessarily guided by the need to improve the current situation”, it is assumed that in Spain.
Although, according to those interviewed have been discussed many issues like the economy, Spain’s image in international markets, labor reform, the new Law on Savings Banks, the Debate of the State of the Nation and the energy pact, no reach any concrete agreement because, as we defined them, have not “entered into future drawings.” Moreover, Urkullu made it clear he would not support any motion of censure against Zapatero, which, incidentally, Rajoy does not want to raise.
