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In Spain, the Conference of Presidents (Spanish: Conferencia de Presidentes, Catalan: Conferència de Presidents, Basque: Presidenteen konferentzia) is the highest political body for cooperation between the Government of Spain and the autonomous communities, occuping the highest level of multilateral cooperation bodies. Although lacking constitutional or statutory legal frame, it is made up of the Prime Minister, who chairs it, the presidents of the seventeen autonomous communities and the presidents of the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.[1] Formally established in 2004, a first meeting in 1990 under the premiership of Felipe González is considered its precent.[citation needed]
A common cooperation body of federal or devolved states, counterparts also exist in countries like Germany, Italy, Austria[a], Switzerland[b], Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, India, Mexico and formerly Australia, albeit with different names.
History
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The creation of the Conference of Presidents was announced by Prime Minister Zapatero in his first investiture debate and was constituted on October 28, 2004. Due to its nature and its political status, its scope of action is open and its purpose to debate and adopt agreements on matters of special relevance to the autonomic system.
Its functioning is flexible and decisions are based on the principle of consensus of the participants, in practice, however it is a merely a consultative body of the Central Government with the different autonomous communities.
In its first editions, the Conference of Presidents was held irregularly and always at the behest of the Central Government. From the 5th Conference on, the Government approved a statue establishing that conferences would be held on an annual basis, although this has been seldom followed.
Thus, the first Zapatero government held three meetings in October 2004, September 2005 and January 2007, respectively. In Zapatero's second government only one conference was convened. For his part, Mariano Rajoy held only a single conference on his first term in October 2012, and another one in his second term in January 2017.
Pedro Sánchez has been so far the Prime Minister who was convened the most conferences, up to twenty between 2020 and 2022, most of which due to the COVID-19 pandemic response in Spain. These meetings were held weekly during the application of the 2020 State of Alarm between March and June 2020. Indeed, since the 6th conference telematic means were introduced, which were used for the majority of meetings held between 2020 and 2021.
Membership
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Conferences
[edit]| Summit | Location | Region | Date | Prime minister | Party | Absentees | |
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| 1st | Palace of the Senate, Madrid |  Community of Madrid
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28 October 2004 | José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero | PSOE | ||
| 2nd | 10 September 2005 | ||||||
| 3rd | 11 January 2007 | ||||||
| 4th | 14 December 2009 | ||||||
| 5th | 2 October 2012 | Mariano Rajoy | PP | ||||
| 6th | 17 January 2017 |  Basque Country, Catalonia[2]
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| 7th | Online due to COVID-19 | 15 March 2020 | Pedro Sánchez | PSOE | |||
| 8th | 22 March 2020 | ||||||
| 9th | 29 March 2020 | ||||||
| 10th | 5 April 2020 | ||||||
| 11th | 12 April 2020 | ||||||
| 12th | 19 April 2020 | ||||||
| 13th | 26 April 2020 | ||||||
| 14th | 3 May 2020 | ||||||
| 15th | 10 May 2020 | ||||||
| 16th | 17 May 2020 | ||||||
| 17th | 24 May 2020 | ||||||
| 18th | 31 May 2020 | ||||||
| 19th | 7 June 2020 | ||||||
| 20th | 14 June 2020 | ||||||
| 21st | Monastery of Yuso, San Millán de la Cogolla |  La Rioja
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31 July 2020 | Basque Country Catalonia
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| 22nd | Online | 4 September 2020 | |||||
| 23rd | 26 October 2020 | ||||||
| 24th | Convento de San Esteban, Salamanca |  Castile and León
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30 July 2021 | Catalonia[4]
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| 25th | Online | 22 December 2021 | |||||
| 26th | Benahoarita Archeological Museum, La Palma |  Canary Islands
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13 March 2022 | ||||
| 27th | TBA |  Cantabria[5]
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TBA | ||||
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Conference of presidents". Government of Spain. Retrieved July 1, 2024 – via Ministry of Territorial Policy.
- ^ "La Conferencia de Presidentes se reúne entre desaires y ausencias" [Conference of Presidents meets amidst slights and absences]. Público. 29 July 2021.
- ^ "Urkullu se desdice y acude a la conferencia de presidentes tras pactar su déficit" [Urkullu walks back and assists Conference of Presidents after reaching agreement on [Basque] deficit]. El Confidencial (in Spanish). 31 July 2020.
- ^ "Sánchez: "Es una pena" que Aragonès no vaya a la Conferencia de Presidentes" [Sánchez: It is "a pity" that Aragonès will not attend Conference of Presidents]. Heraldo de Aragón. 29 July 2021.
- ^ "Sánchez avanza que la Conferencia de Presidentes será en Cantabria y el tema principal será la vivienda" (in Spanish). Europa Press.
