From the outside, it might seem that things have not changed much in the new political season. The Executive remains without budgets, and the two main pitfalls are still in a tone similar to the one before summer: Junts and Podemos are not considered part of the majority of government, although and have been decisive in all the key voting of the legislature. The two games compete in hardness against the Executive, and want to keep that pressure alive every day to show muscle, claim before their electorate and achieve counterparts. However, there is an important novelty this season: the government feels much stronger than three months ago, when it was on the edge of the abyss for . The first two control sessions of this season have shown a very comfortable Pedro Sánchez in front of a Alberto Núñez Feijóo with more difficulties because the agenda has focused on an issue on which the president has a very defined position, the massacre of Gaza, while the PP doubts between the different visions within the party on this matter.
Therefore, and because the Government has decided to look for a completely different tone in this second stage of the Legislature, much more to the offensive, more focused on content, management and data and trying to flee from the judicial agenda to which the PP tries to take it, in the Executive assume that together and we will make it very difficult, until you do, but that will not stop the agenda of the government. Within the framework of the negotiating table, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Carles Puigdemont will hold a meeting in Switzerland.
It is not clear yet if the socialist sector will go as far as Yolanda Díaz and will assume losses as the reduction of working hours but turning them around so that the cost suffer from those who vote against it, but the trick of the president’s ads will be played to the fullest and squeeze the margin of management of the ministries without the need to pass through Congress. An example is what has happened with the Antiapagon Decree. Junts knocked him down in July, and the executive has been looking for formulas to carry out most of the measures without the need for a new decree, although he continues to convince the independentists.
Jons and we can squeeze, and the risk that they knock down more reforms always exists. Although at the same time there are many negotiations in progress, such as the Clientele Services Law – in which it has been agreed that companies of more than 250 workers have to communicate with their clients – that of public function, or that of sustainable mobility, where there are advances. Junts, yes, threatens to block the reforms of justice, strategic for the government, which would change access to the race, reduce the margin of popular accusations or take the instruction to prosecutors. In theory they agree with the background, but right now they do not guarantee their vote in favor. A fire test of this new tension that the independentistas want to promote will be the decree of the embargo of Armas to Israel, which will with the next week go to the Council of Ministers and in less than a month to Congress. Meanwhile, Podemos will make it difficult for the Government next week knotting the reform agreed with Junts for the transfer of immigration competition to the Generalitat.
Everything seems as always very complicated, but the Executive insists that they have been living in a very complex parliament for more than seven years, and at that time, as Sánchez recalled, there have been seven prime ministers in France, six in Austria, five in the United Kingdom and three leaders of the PP – rack, married and Feijóo. The government transmits a completely different sensation especially since Gaza entered the political agenda, and it is the PP who suffers to fix its position.
Meanwhile, Junts insists that there is no strategic line of not everything or everything, but that each matter must be addressed as its own entity, “folder to folder”, and starting the negotiation with the counter to zero. Miriam Nogueras has a direct line with Carles Puigdemont and every decision made in the parliamentary office has been rumped in Waterloo (Belgium). At the beginning of this week, Puigdemont gathered the deputies of Juns in Belgium. The message that came out of the meeting was to investigate for the socialists, wherever they are, they meet. “Either the double socialist speech ends in Madrid and Barcelona, or the relationship ends,” was notified at the end of the meeting.
No juns spokesman gives clues about what the position of the party will be in relation to the embargo on Israel that drives the government and the official message is that there is a time margin before the decision has to be faced. Junts, as he did converge, has become accustomed to maintaining a kind position with Israel and the Jewish people. Last week, after the government announced sanctions against the Jewish state for its offensive in Gaza, it transpired that Israel was going to consider the next edition of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Puigdemont published a message where he warned of the convenience of not making Israel angry. “Boicoteing Israel’s products and companies for the simple fact of being Israelis is a mistake,” he wrote, while regretting the possible absence in the MWC of “one of the most advanced technologically technologically in the world.”
He former president He published his message in full hangover of the Diada and the puncture of the traditional manifestation that summons independence. In Barcelona, less than 30,000 people went to the street and the party that achieved the most visibility was the racist and ultra -right -wing training Aliança Catalan, which is stealing a lot of space to Junts. According to the last barometer of the center d’Estudis d’Enfició (CEO), the Catalan cis, the sympathy for Aliança in the less populated Catalonia (those non -borderline regions with Barcelona) has shot in a year from 2.1% to 4.7%. During some moments of the 11-S march, Aliança followers shouted proclamations in favor of Israel. “It will cost to understand, but there is more convergence in Aliança than in Junts,” said Jordi Aragonès, one of the ultra party ideologues.
The Government is restless for this competition between Junts and Aliança, and also for the hardening of the Podemos line, always in conflict with adding, but in the end it always reaches the same point of analysis: “They can make it difficult and they will make it difficult, but nobody wants to knock this government or think about a motion of censure with the PP and Vox. So we will continue and we will do many more things that one would think about the numbers of the congress. We have money to make policies, the economy grows and our agenda has a lot of social support, ”summarizes a minister.
