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Without it being possible to distinguish how much of a yearning and how much of reality, the Government still trusts to be able to celebrate the investiture of Pedro Sánchez in the last week of the year. This date is not ruled out, to which the sources of the Executive pointed out on Friday and that the acting President of the Government, in an informal conversation with journalists in the celebration of the Constitution Day Congress , also did not want to rule out. The leader of United Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, also referred to this by ensuring that he would like an investiture "before Christmas or the end of the year." Other members of the current Acting Executive said that "until 31 there is time."

With this calendar outline, one works in Moncloa after derailing his first idea that the Plenary could be convened in the week of December 16-19. But, despite the fact that negotiations with ERC are progressing and work is already being done on the formula for the dialogue table between governments demanding the independence parties, this week it presented some problems for the Oriol Junqueras party. One of them is that on the 19th the EU Court of Justice will rule on the parliamentary immunity of Oriol Junqueras, something that can also affect Carles Puigdemont and his chances of ending up being MEP, having freedom of movement and even being a candidate in other regional elections. The other is that, on the 21st, ERC holds a national congress, in which it will announce its line of work for the coming years.

Although Republicans publicly convey that they are not in a hurry, the PSOE, the Government and Podemos can. The abstention of the independentistas is essential for the coalition Executive agreed between Sánchez and Iglesias to start. That is why they are hopeful that once these two appointments were over, the investiture could be convened the last days of the year.

They point it out, although government sources say that the agreement with ERC "is not closed" and that they need to "say in public what they say in private" and that they are indeed willing to abstain. In exchange for doing so they ask for a dialogue between governments to resolve the Catalan "political conflict", which the Socialists try to shape. We are already working on it and it could be closed at the meeting that the delegations of the two parties will have on Tuesday in Barcelona , in a new gesture by the Socialists to ERC, but there are no guarantees.

While the King begins the round of consultations to nominate a candidate, the PSOE will try to agree on the agreement to get the independents to abstain. This meeting is recognized in Moncloa as "very important" but not "decisive." New encounters could still occur.

ERC is the last fringe of the Sánchez-Iglesias coalition, whose structure is already finalized. Now the president and his future vice president, in the periodic meetings they hold, close the government program. The socialist leader thinks that in the 10-N elections the progressive electorate sent him a clear message: that the left has to be understood and, in his opinion, with the coalition he thinks he has been able to interpret it.

Announce the program to bind minorities

On the other hand, Podemos radiates optimism regarding the chances of success of Sánchez's investiture. And, they clarify the sources consulted, they are still "more" enthusiastic than they are in the socialist ranks after the last talks with ERC.

The information handled by the calls to be the partners of the Government of Sánchez is that the agreement with the independentistas is closer than it might seem and that the outcome of the meetings is progressing in a favorable sense.

However, other sources of the purple party apostillan that until the assembly that ERC will hold on December 21, everything is a mystery about the final meaning of his vote, since within ERC there are also more supportive currents to support a PSOE-Podemos Government and who are more immobilists. That is why there are many possibilities for everything to be delayed to January, although without ruling out an investiture in the last days of the year.

In parallel to the negotiations, what is taking cruising speed is the future government program. That is in a very advanced state and waiting to close details and polish some nuances that have emerged while deepening the structure of the Executive and the distribution of portfolios between the PSOE and Podemos.

In this regard, Iglesias has advanced in informal conversation with journalists that the claim of the new partners is to present the government program before the investiture. What would be entirely a novelty, as it is usually in the debate itself when the candidate for president of the Government reveals his plans. In this case, it would be advanced for the first time with the objective of securing the vote in favor of minority parties, who want to go to the investiture without having to make a car of faith when voting.

Therefore, the presentation of the program would pretend to present in public both the lines and the commitments, in a way in which minority parties can be reflected or feel entitled to vote in favor. From the PNV to Teruel There.

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