Conference of Presidents (Spain)
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The Conference of Presidents is the highest-level political body for cooperation and the autonomous communities and the Government of Spain. It is at the top of the group of multilateral cooperation bodies. It has no constitutional or statutory basis. It is made up of the Prime Minister of Spain, (known as "president" in Spanish: Presidente), and who presides, the 17 presidents of the autonomous communities and the 2 mayors-president autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla. A first meeting under the presidency of Felipe González in 1990 can be considered precedent-setting.
This is a common cooperation body in politically decentralised states. These top-level political meetings, with similar names, are also held in countries such as Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Canada. At the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the XXI, it has assumed great importance as a driving force in the development of the so-called cooperative federalism, fundamentally in Germany and Austria.
In all these countries, the Conference of Presidents is institutionalized, either through agreements that regulate aspects relating to the functioning and contents of meetings (in the case of Switzerland or Italy), or through the recognition of a political practice by habit, which is inherent in the cooperative operation of the state (Germany, Austria or Canada).
History
[edit]The creation of the Conference of Presidents was announced by the President of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, in its inaugral meeting and was established on October 28, 2004. Given its nature and political level, its scope of action is open and its purpose is to debate and adopt agreements on matters of special relevance to the autonomous system.
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Its functioning is flexible and its decisions are based on the principle of the agreement of the participants, in practice it is a merely consultative body of the Central Government with the autonomous communities and cities.The Conference of Presidents, in its first editions, was held with irregular periodicity, and always at the proposal of the Government of the Nation. Starting with the V Conference of Presidents, held on December 14, 2009, the Government approved a regulation establishing that the conferences would be held on an annual basis, although this was not fulfilled. Thus, Zapatero's first government held meetings on 28 October 2004, 10 September 2005 and 11 January 2007. During Zapatero's second government, only one conference was held, on 14 December 2009. Mariano Rajoy held only one conference during his first term, on 2 October 2012. In January 2017, during his second term, the second conference was held with Rajoy at the helm.
The prime minister, Pedro Sánchez was the one who convened the most conferences, up to twenty between 2020 and 2022, many of them due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact since the seventh conference, most of the meetings held between 2020 and 2021 were teleconferences.[1]
Composition
[edit]Number | Date | Location | Prime Minister | Agenda | |
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I | 28 October 2004 | Palacio del Senado (Madrid) |
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero | List
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II | 10 Septiembre 2005 | List
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III | 11 January 2007 | List
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IV | 14 December 2009 | List
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V | 2 October 2012 | Mariano Rajoy Brey | List
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VI | 17 January 2017 | List
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VII | 15 March 2020 | Extraordinary meetings by teleconference due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón | List
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VIII | 22 March 2020 | ||||
IX | 29 March 2020 | ||||
X | 5 April 2020 | ||||
XI | 12 April 2020 | ||||
XII | 19 April 2020 | ||||
XIII | 26 April 2020 | ||||
XIV | 3 May 2020 | ||||
XV | 10 May 2020 | ||||
XVI | 17 May 2020 | ||||
XVII | 24 May 2020 | ||||
XVIII | 31 May 2020 | ||||
XIX | 7 June 2020 | ||||
XX | 14 June 2020 | ||||
XXI | 31 July 2020 | Monasterio de Yuso (San Millán de la Cogolla, La Rioja) |
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XXII | 4 September 2020 | Meeting by teleconference | List
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XXIII | 26 October 2020 | List
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XXIV | 30 July 2021 | Convento de San Esteban (Salamanca) |
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XXV | 22 December 2021 | Meeting by teleconference | List
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XXVI | 13 March 2022 | Museo Arqueológico Benahoarita (Los Llanos de Aridane, La Palma) |
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Los entresijos de la conferencia de presidentes". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 2020-10-25. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
- ^ "La Moncloa. 24/07/2020. Pedro Sánchez preside la reunión del Comité de Seguimiento del COVID-19 [Multimedia/Galerías fotográficas/Presidente]". www.lamoncloa.gob.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 July 2020.
- ^ Press, Europa (14 June 2020). "Arranca la 14 Conferencia de Presidentes de Sánchez con CCAA, que coincide con el tercer mes en estado alarma". www.europapress.es. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
- ^ "Sánchez reúne la Conferencia de Presidentes". abc (in Spanish). 4 September 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
- ^ "Pedro Sánchez se reúne con los líderes autonómicos en una Conferencia de Presidentes marcada por el estado de alarma". EXPANSION (in Spanish). 2020-10-25. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
- ^ "Sánchez anuncia 3,4 millones de vacunas adicionales en agosto para desactivar las protestas del PP". El País. 30 July 2021.
- ^ "Ayuso lidera el frente del PP con las críticas más duras a la gestión "desleal" de Sánchez". El País. 30 July 2021.
- ^ elDiario.es (2021-12-18). "Sánchez convoca una Conferencia de Presidentes para abordar el estallido de la sexta ola". ElDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-12-19.
- ^ Press, Europa (2022-02-24). "El Gobierno cancela la Conferencia de Presidentes por la crisis de Ucrania". www.europapress.es. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
- ^ "La Moncloa. 04/02/2022. Pedro Sánchez convoca la XXVI Conferencia de Presidentes el 25 de febrero en La Palma [Presidente/Destacados]". www.lamoncloa.gob.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-02-23.
- ^ "Arranca en La Palma la 26ª Conferencia de Presidentes". Canarias7 (in Spanish). 2022-03-13. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
External links
[edit]- Conferencia de Presidentes, offical page of the Ministry of Political Territories