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Podemos will not veto the PSOE from negotiating Citizens' support for the General State Budgets for next year, but it does impose that its conditions be assumed first. Pablo Iglesias' party caused a tremor in the Government on Friday by announcing that the PSOE could not "count on them" if it draws up the accounts with the help of Cs. A declaration of principles that differed from other previous more possible manifestations, and in that in the last hours it is being nuanced.

We can, as this newspaper has learned, would accept the sum of an agreement with the orange party if a draft budget is agreed beforehand within the coalition Executive. A prior understanding between the two government partners, which the purple formation wants to translate into a document, despite the fact that the Treasury already has conversations with all the ministries - also those of Podemos - to put together the project.

They ask for a common plan, of the two, that can then be offered to the rest of the political forces, including Cs, with whom the Socialists have strengthened their relationship since their pact in the third extension of the state of alarm for the coronavirus crisis. It is precisely the direct dialogue that Moncloa maintains with Cs and Pedro Sánchez with Inés Arrimadas that has put Podemos on alert.

From the beginning they have seen a threat in their growing influence and have bet that the coalition government sustains itself with the votes of the investiture, which was possible thanks to the abstention of ERC. Now, according to the sources consulted, they believe that the Socialists are already negotiating the Budgets with Cs without counting on them, that's why the broadside on Friday and the demand for a draft.

Differences between partners

However, it is not possible to isolate these public differences about the preparation of Budgets from other continuous frictions between the PSOE and Podemos. Recurrent since the formation of the Government, including in the approval of the state of alarm, the wear and tear that Iglesias dragged by the so-called 'Dina case' and the accusation of Podemos for alleged illegal financing have caused a start of the course in which the second vice president has become invigorated.

Iglesias has hit the table twice this week after weeks in which the Socialists abandoned him to his fate. The Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, spoiled Podemos with her criticism of the judges and the president waited to return from vacation to support her and show her confidence in her.

Podemos has been shocked by criticism of the "lack of leadership" of the Minister of Education, Isabel Celaá, and the budget bombing that is finally tempering but has broken the strategy designed by Moncloa to mark the initiative in September, which it revolves around the request for political unity, for the unity of all Spaniards to face the pandemic and its consequences.

The President of the Government will deliver on Monday a conference before businessmen, unions and representatives of civil society in which he will defend this idea, which he will then personally transmit to Pablo Casado, with whom he will meet on Wednesday, within a round of contacts with the main parliamentary forces.

The plan that 'dismantled' Iglesias

Sánchez will request Casado to support the Budgets and agree to renew the CGPJ, the Constitutional Court, the Ombudsman and RTVE. His intervention this Monday, say socialist sources, will be the beginning of a "new campaign to pressure the PP" to erode them if they do not accept the proposed agreements.

But Iglesias has dismantled this plan by himself, showing that the accounts for next year are not even agreed within the Government.

In Podemos they maintain that the socialists are already negotiating with Cs while they have not yet done so globally with them and are especially upset with some statements by Arrimadas, such as those he made in an interview with this newspaper, where he defended that "the Budgets they have to leave and the less satisfied Iglesias is with them, the better for Spain ".

In this global context there has been the discharge of the second vice president who now wants to force a photo between him and Sánchez, signing a preliminary agreement, and that the Socialists might want to avoid so that this does not give Cs arguments against their support to the Budgets, which in Moncloa they almost take for granted.

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