MadridThe first step towards the investiture of Pedro Sánchez is imminent. The PSOE and Sumar finalize an agreement to re-edit the coalition government in the State, which will need the endorsement of independence to start the legislature. The programmatic pact between the two formations occurs before the distribution of portfolios, which has not yet been closed, and the most difficult subject: tying the support of Esquerra, Junts, EH Bildu and the PNB.
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Until this very morning, the party led by Yolanda Díaz has sent warning signals. The refusal of the PSOE to reduce the working day hindered the agreement, although the acting first vice-president and Minister of the Economy, Nadia Calviño, did not close the door completely. Sumar considered reducing it to 37.5 hours per week in 2024 and opening a process for it to gradually decrease to 32 hours. Although announcing the agreement that same night was not ruled out, socialist sources explain that the reef will be saved in the next few hours and that the pact will be communicated this Tuesday.
And with all this, what does Podemos say? It will be necessary to see how the purple formation reacts, which has five deputies in the Sumar group in Congress and which has remained on the sidelines of the negotiations with the PSOE. For days he has been calling for more ambition in the content and for Irene Montero to continue at the head of the Ministry of Equality, although it is not a red line when it comes to voting for Sánchez’s investiture.
In a press conference this Monday, the co-spokesman of Podem Pablo Fernández insisted on the following measures: freezing the price of rent for the entire legislature, raising the minimum wage to 1,500 euros, renewing the General Council of the Judiciary by lowering the majorities necessary for dispense with the PP and repeal the gag law. “The talks between the PSOE and Sumar are clearly insufficient,” he complained. In turn, the spokesman for Sumar, Ernest Urtasun, agreed on the need to deploy the price cap contained in the housing law approved in the previous legislature and to repeal the citizen security law, which could not be modified by the refusal at the Congress of ERC and EH Bildu, who wanted to go further.
Urtasun has also demanded that the bank tax be permanent, a Scholarship Statute, maintain the free of charge for Rodalies, create the figure of “restorative dismissal” – which links compensation to the worker’s situation -, reduce flights shorts to combat the climate emergency and the recognition of the Palestinian state, among other points. However, the reduction of working hours is “fundamental” and a priority. If nothing goes wrong, there will be white smoke this Tuesday.
2023-10-23 20:47:02
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