The abstention of two enemies of the Constitution as ERC and Bildu yesterday allowed Sanchez to approve the path of the deficit, budget threshold. Sanchismo consists in the normalization of the democratic anomaly, so that there will be those who are not scandalized that a party promoting the separatist coup in Catalonia and the political heirs of ETA are the main parliamentary supporters of the Government of Spain. But the fact is that they are. They were in the motion of censure, then in the investiture and now Sanchez hopes that they will also be in the processing of accounts for all Spaniards, which will necessarily include all the concessions asymmetrical to the unsupportive nationalism on which Sanchez's power depends.

The first clue of these concessions appears in the text approved yesterday: not only an increase in the expenditure ceiling for 2020 of 3.8% for this year, but an unexpected additional increase of 3% for the next one. Minister Montero did not report at any time that the Council of Ministers had agreed on that second expenditure ceiling, which means a 3% increase over that of 2020 . Through this filibusterism maneuver, the minister avoids passing a new specific parliamentary procedure before preparing the Budgets for 2021. It seems obvious to conclude that this increase in spending, in addition to carrying a correlative fiscal ax that allows to pay it at the expense of the pockets of the middle classes, will go to try to meet the demands of Sánchez's partners, including the more than 4,000 million additional euros pledged to Torra, a disabled supremacist received in Moncloa with honors as head of foreign government.

The chronology of the news sometimes throws eloquent coincidences. On the same day that the most radical separatism showed its budgetary support for Sánchez in Congress, the Lledoners prison Treatment Board agreed to apply article 100.2 of the prison regulations to Oriol Junqueras and Raül Romeva. The two will leave six hours a day three times a week to work in volunteer work , by virtue of that kind of measure of grace or gradual pardon that can be applied because the Supreme Court, in its conviction, did not want to estimate the request of the Prosecutor that the convicted could not access a semi-freedom regime until at least half of the sentence was served. So Junqueras, by virtue of the transfer of the penitentiary powers to the Generalitat that now the PNV will start Sanchez for the Basque Country in exchange for his support for the Budgets, will soon leave prison to be able to pilot the pre-campaign with greater comfort , without showing any sign of regret - rather of reaffirmation in the challenge - and not even giving Sanchez guarantees of a vote in favor of his accounts.

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