Negotiations to form Government take place in a bunkerization environment. You have to "keep calm and keep doing a discreet job," said Irene Montero, spokesman for United We in Congress and interlocutor of the socialist Adriana Lastra at the PSOE. But in the back room, far from the spotlights, steps are taken. Catalunya en Comú, the commons - the Catalan sector of Podemos - maintains, for example, contacts with both the PSC and ERC, whose abstention would be facilitated by the PSOE-United Podemos coalition government.

The purples , unlike other occasions such as the motion of censure that appealed to Pedro Sánchez, opted to step aside in the negotiations and leave their leadership to the socialist leader. However, United We can maintain a dialogue with ERC. The vice president of the Government , Pere Aragonès , has maintained contact with Pablo Iglesias, while the commons have direct thread with the Catalan Republicans.

"We have always maintained contact with forces such as the PSOE and ERC. Before, during and after we will maintain it. They are contacts that have not ceased to exist at any time and now have not ceased to occur," said Jaume Asens , parliamentary spokesman of the commons . Conversations and meetings for investiture. "We are meeting with all those who can push, facilitate that endowment, because for us the priority is for the endowment to come out."

The PSOE has placed ERC as a priority partner to facilitate the investiture, to the point that both formations have designated two negotiating teams - among which is Josep Maria Jové , accused of being the architect of 1-O - and they plan to meet this Thursday in a context where ERC sees Sánchez "defeated" and that is why "it is possible to sit him at the table to talk" and where he raises his demands to the point of demanding an interlocution "between governments". If Sánchez and Iglesias gain the support of minority groups in Congress, the abstention of ERC would be enough to carry out the investiture.

The commons are a key leg for Iglesias, first because of Ada Colau's strength as mayor of Barcelona , where he rules alongside the PSC, for his interlocution with secessionist forces and for his weight in the parliamentary group. These circumstances mean that in the negotiation at the highest level between PSOE and United We can find fit for a ministry commanded by a person from the common environment. The Department of Universities is an option that has gained strength in recent days, thus adding to the Equality and Labor portfolios, which we can take for granted.

"Who should be in each specific position, the responsibility that each one will touch, we cannot determine now because it is the subject of negotiation," Asens has dodged when asked about the participation of his political space in the next Government.

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