The government will move forward with the distribution of migrant minors, despite a PP party on the warpath.

On February 26, the autonomous communities governed by the Popular Party (PP) abandoned the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, en masse at the Fiscal Policy Council where the debt consolidation was approved. On April 4, the PP councilors snubbed the Minister of Justice, Félix Bolaños, at the Sectoral Justice Conference that addressed the financing of the new Efficiency Law. Today, April 28, the Minister of Youth and Children intends to debate the relocation of 4,400 unaccompanied migrant minors at the sectoral conference where the regions governed by the PP can once again snub the government.

At 4:00 p.m., all regional governments have been summoned, on an extraordinary basis, to the Sectoral Conference on Children and Adolescents. The meeting will address the key aspects of how to carry out the transfer of foreign children and adolescents without family support who remain in areas with high migratory pressure, such as the Canary Islands and Ceuta. The amendment to the Immigration Law, approved on April 10 in Congress thanks to the favorable votes of the majority of Pedro Sánchez's investiture , grants the Sectoral Conference the power to change key elements for calculating distribution—such as the weighting of criteria—but any modification requires unanimity. Thus, the meeting is expected to be a formality because both the Government and the regional governments are clear that such a consensus is impossible. The approved decree specifies that, if there is no unanimous agreement to the contrary, the mechanism will continue under the established terms.

The Sectoral Conference It has the power to change the distribution criteria but unanimity is necessary.

The possibility of a unanimous white smoke is so remote that even the president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, declared this weekend that he has "little hope" that the meeting will define what has been called ordinary capacity—the number of migrant minors that each community should have in its care based on its population—in order to establish the quota corresponding to each community.

What will be present at the meeting is "high tension," as the Community of Madrid warns, considering the meeting "illegal." So much so that the Madrid Regional Minister for Family, Youth, and Social Affairs, Ana Dávila, has asked Minister Rego to cancel the sectoral meeting, believing that the central government is invading powers that reside with the regional governments. "We are the ones who have the authority to protect the rights of minors. Especially when it comes to caring for them in a situation of neglect, the worst a child can find themselves in," Dávila asserts.

Aragon, where the Ministry of Immigrant Minors under its care has not even been informed, also expressed its complete rejection of the meeting, even appealing the call, arguing that it stems from the decree against which Jorge Azcón's regional government has declared total war. This contentious appeal follows the one filed two weeks ago by Aragon challenging Rego's request for the submission of data regarding places and occupancy at juvenile centers in Aragon.

The Region of Murcia will also express its rejection of the migration contingency proposal "because it is being done behind the backs of the autonomous communities," according to Conchita Ruiz, Minister of Social Policy, Families, and Equality, and because it is "a document tailored to the interests of Catalonia, Sánchez's pro-independence partners." Ruiz announced that she will attend to vote against it.

The meeting aims to approve The declaration of a contingency in the Canary Islands and Ceuta to activate the distribution

While it remains to be seen whether there will ultimately be a move orchestrated by the PP-led regions, some of which have appealed the decree to the Constitutional Court (Madrid, Cantabria, Andalusia, Castile and León, the Valencian Community, the Balearic Islands, and Aragon), Rego explained that he will propose to all regions an agreement to declare an extraordinary migration emergency in the Canary Islands and Ceuta, whose protection system exceeds three times their ordinary capacity, in order to scale the different autonomous systems. This will allow the response plan to be activated immediately so that the first transfers can begin to take place during the summer, according to the government's timeline.

The decree provides a one-year deadline to complete the transfer of the 4,000 migrant minors from the Canary Islands and another 400 from Ceuta. However, and here lies the crux of the challenge, the text establishes that once a migration contingency situation has been declared in one of the territories, new minors arriving irregularly in the region must be transferred to the other corresponding region within a maximum period of 15 days.