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Time squeezes but Pedro Sánchez doesn't drown. Although there is one month left for the automatic call for general elections if there is no investiture, the President of the Government has decided to delay further the start of negotiations with the other parties. Neither this nor next week will hold any meetings with other political leaders to seek their support, as confirmed by the spokeswoman for the Executive, Isabel Celaá, after the Council of Ministers.

The president of the acting Government thus chooses to continue playing with the times and with the pressure of the calendar with the objective of forcing United We to the resignation of a coalition and the acceptance of an entirely socialist government. A "swallow" that Pablo Iglesias has told his militants by letter that he does not intend to assume.

But Sanchez continues with the idea of ​​delaying negotiation times to the maximum. In fact, next week will be dedicated to continue receiving associations and members of civil society to, according to the Government, listen to their demands and build a program of legislature. Initially this was not the plan, because it had been reported that the president would initiate a round of contacts with other political leaders. That would take him and other members of the PSOE to meet with the PNV, ERC, JxCat or Miguel Angel Revilla's party, the PRC.

However, the government spokeswoman explained Friday that there will be no political meetings next week. Neither meeting this weekend with the PNV despite his trip to Biarritz for his participation in the G-7 summit and its proximity to Bilbao . Celaá has justified this delay in the calendar to resume negotiations with other forces in which the president wants to "consolidate" a "programmatic political project" first. And that means "wait" at the end of August to "from there," he said, regain contact with political leaders. "It is the president who marks the times," he stressed.

For the rest, the Executive remains entrenched in his refusal of a coalition Government with United We Can. "There are no conditions for a coalition government. In any way," Celaá insisted, for whom the July negotiation and the failed investiture are tangible elements that leave it "in evidence."

"There is enough mistrust to make this option passable," he stressed. In a phrase that evidences the abyss that today separates the PSOE and United We Can. Therefore, Sánchez's commitment continues to be only for a programmatic agreement. And it is what Celaá has reiterated again, which calls Iglesias to close a pact that details future laws, deadlines for taking measures or financing within a "shared political project" by the two parties.

Celaá has considered that it is a "false dilemma" that United We can talk about "coalition government or elections" because there are "many passable formulas" to get out of the blockade. Among them, facilitate investiture to the extent that "all political forces have a share of responsibility" to avoid new elections. "If all of them expose a part," he said, "we will have government."

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  • Regionalist Party of Cantabria
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  • President's Investiture

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