"Sorry. I miscounted and there is a draw."
The president of Congress, Meritxell Batet, thought that the government decree on reducing the temporary nature of the interim had tied the majority, after the agreement between PSOE and ERC.
In fact, after Batet announced, by mistake, that the decree had been validated, the PSOE deputies burst into applause.
But, indeed, the president of Congress had added badly and in reality there were 170 votes against and 170 votes in favor.
The vote had to be repeated.
How did it happen?
A deputy of United We Can, Rosa Medel, has voted "no" deliberately and "consciously" for the first time, as a "protest" against a legal text that does not satisfy her.
This is how sources of the purple formation recognize this newspaper.
Medel, deputy for Valencia, is a doctor and has a permanent position in a public center.
According to the sources of United We consulted, Medel has considered insufficient the improvements to the text that have been achieved in the last part of the negotiation and that will be introduced into the text during its parliamentary process.
"In the event of a tie, the vote is repeated," Batet said at the time.
At that time, the general secretary of the United We Can Group, Txema Guijarro, rose to Medel's seat to ask him to change the direction of his vote, according to deputies from other groups who have witnessed the scene.
In fact, in the images of the official sign of the Congress, Guijarro is seen going down the stairs to his row after reprimanding the deputy of his group, who has chosen in the second attempt not to vote, thus allowing the decree to be validated.
If the tie had not been broken in the second, Batet would have had to give the groups a period until the third and final vote, after which the tie would have caused the decree to decline.
In this way, what would have been the greatest parliamentary defeat of the coalition Executive since the rebel mayors twisted the hand of María Jesús Montero and managed to overturn her decree on the municipal remnants was thus avoided.
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