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The agreement between the PSOE and the United We can to release 2020 with the first government coalition of democracy is practically closed, in the absence of some fringes, especially economic.

This week will be key in all the part that affects the pact with ERC, whose abstention in the investiture is essential, but also to finish out the details of which parts of the labor reform will be repealed or how the rise in rents will be faced, and above all the tax increase that is intended to be approved in the first councils of ministers in which Pablo Iglesias and the other ministers of United Podemos will sit.

Many of the demands of Iglesias have created friction with the PSOE and United We will have to give up many of its flags in exchange for entering the Government. This is the case of the complete repeal of the labor reform of the PP of 2012 - the Socialists only want to eliminate what they consider to be their most harmful aspects - or the creation of a public energy company. Iglesias has instead carried out other negotiations until the end, in particular the public intervention of the rental market.

But the central part of the agreement will be the tax increase. In the "pre-agreement" that both leaders signed on November 12, the concept of "tax justice" was introduced and there was talk of "a fair and progressive tax reform." Beyond the new taxes that may be created, the dilemma is where to place the threshold of an increase in personal income tax.

We can place it in the 100,000 euros gross of annual income, although already in the previous pact signed with the PSOE, the budget of October 2018, that bar rose to 130,000 euros. What seems certain is that the Spaniards will start 2020 with a tax increase.

Vice Presidency, Work and Universities

Things are clearer in the organization chart of the Government, since Podemos achieved a fourth ministry at the cost of losing powers or dividing them into the portfolios it will hold. This issue of competencies was the one that generated the most discussion between both parties and what led to We could refuse to head a Ministry of Housing in which it would not have the capacity to decide on rents or evictions, or discard the Ministry of Health , area transferred largely to the autonomous communities.

In addition to the vice presidency of Iglesias, Podemos will have the Ministry of Labor , although the Socialists have broken Social Security from it. For this portfolio, the name that sounds the most is that of Galician deputy Yolanda Díaz , who appears in all pools as a minister.

The purple party will also have the portfolio of Universities , possibly detached from Science and Innovation - another decline in competencies. This ministry will be in the hands of the commons , the Catalan sector of Podemos led by Ada Colau.

In the original distribution of portfolios made by Iglesias, the universities were destined for Pablo Echenique, but Colau asserted his importance within the parliamentary group of United We can - seven of 35 deputies - and claimed a portfolio, which has turned out to be this.

Rosa Lluch's name has gained strength in recent weeks to be the headline. Daughter of Ernest Lluch , the former minister of Felipe González killed by ETA in the year 2000, is a historian and university professor, and has been having a growing role in the commons , of which Executive is part.

A ministry for Alberto Garzón

Before these decaffeinated ministries, at the end of November Iglesias said that his party should have a fourth portfolio. This possibility was opened to meet the quota of power agreed between the PSOE and Podemos and not by the requirement of IU to be in the Government, although finally it is the leader of the coalition, Alberto Garzón, who has the best chance of staying with this ministry The sources consulted indicate that it would be a second level portfolio.

In the purple party there is some fear of transferring the image that excessive assignments have been made in exchange for occupying armchairs. A fear increased by the opacity of the negotiation, which makes it impossible to gauge whether it is giving up too much or if its ministries will have sufficient powers and budget to be able to do something.

Iglesias already warned that you had to be willing to "swallow toads", although in the direction of the party they say that the agreement with the PSOE is good despite the difficulties to impose their postulates.

They also believe that they will be able to claim measures such as raising the minimum wage to 1,000 euros, in which the two parties agree and that it is wanted to be one of the first measures to pass. Sanchez decided to freeze the increase until there is Government, as well as the pension update, which will allow We can exploit it from the Work portfolio.

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