“This week progress has been made in the negotiations. There is no point in a discussion that leads us not to organize the Games, although no one can have everything they want. The president of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE), Alejandro Blanco, who had set Friday as the deadline to close a joint candidacy of Catalonia and Aragon, has given this Thursday “a little more margin” to reach an agreement.
This was explained in an interview in Rac1 in which he explained that he proposed the deadline of May 20 because on June 1 the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will be in Madrid and they would like to be able to address “how was the candidacy” , but has recognized that they will not be able to have it by then.
“But when the candidacy is ready we will present it,” he added.
Hoping that both autonomies overcome their differences and that the agreement for a unitary proposal arrives because “there is no other possibility”, he has insisted that the candidacy has to be joint, since “we will make a fool of ourselves if one of us goes separately «. In this sense, he has decided to forge a »technical, not political, candidacy«. »If someone wants one tailored to their needs, they have the wrong party«, he added.
In addition, although he has not given names, he has pointed to the Aragonese government as the cause of the project being aground and has revealed that the distribution of snow tests, one of the focuses of the conflict, “was made by the members of the technical committee of Aragon. That easy”.
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