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In Podemos, the fear of Pedro Sánchez repeating the July maneuver and forcing a negotiation at the last moment begins when the deadline to reach an investiture agreement is about to expire.

This circumstance could leave the party of Pablo Iglesias without initiative, which he sees in frustration as his proposals and his calls to negotiate with time fall in broken sack. This Friday, the PSOE announced that there will be no contacts with other parties in the next 10 days, which will begin in their case from the first week of September and that with Podemos will not be negotiated until the end.

The leaders of Podemos think that the main problem in the failed investiture in July was that an attempt was made to negotiate a coalition government in a very short time, just three or four days. Now they hoped that this would not happen and they hoped that the meetings began well before September 23, the deadline to reach a pact before the automatic call for general elections.

At the moment, they have encountered a double slam. Neither will there be meetings in the next few days nor will there be negotiations on a coalition government, which the Socialists reject from the outset. This increases the thesis of Podemos, which believes that Moncloa wants yes or yes elections. That is why its leaders call on Sanchez to "say openly" if he wants new elections.

«It is time to stop wasting time and get to work»; "We wanted to have more time now"; "July's problem is that the negotiation lasted 48/72 hours at the most, because Sanchez did not want us to negotiate a coalition until three days before"; "One month remains and we hope that the PSOE will open to negotiate." These are the phrases launched from Podemos. They do not want a last-minute negotiation, aware that Moncloa will try to put all the pressure of an electoral repetition on them.

Meanwhile, the Executive remains entrenched in his refusal of a coalition government. "There are no conditions, in any way," insisted yesterday the spokeswoman of the Government, Isabel Celaá, for whom the negotiation of the month of July and the failed investiture are tangible elements that leave it "in evidence."

"There is enough mistrust to make this option passable," he said. It is a phrase that explains the chasm that separates the PSOE and Podemos. Sánchez's bet is exclusively a programmatic pact. The offer of a coalition was reluctantly made in July and has already expired. Now the Government says it will only accept a pact on measures, deadlines or money within a "shared political project" by the two parties.

Celaá considered that it is a "false dilemma" that Iglesias speaks of "coalition government or elections," because there are "many passable formulas" to get out of the blockade. Among them, that some political forces refrain and raise their hand from the blockade.

The truth is that time is tightening, there is less than a month left to be able to sign an investiture agreement, but Pedro Sánchez does not seem to drown him. Quite the opposite, because he insists on playing with the times. The leader of the PSOE has decided to further delay the start of negotiations with the rest of the parties and leave everything for September.

The acting President of the Government thus chooses to continue expanding the times and use the calendar as a pressure measure to force the United We can renounce any type of government coalition and push him to accept an entirely socialist team. A "swallow it", in the words of Iglesias, that the purple leader warned yesterday by letter to his militants that he does not intend to assume.

With statements from both of them seeking the wear of the opposite, Sanchez remains determined to stretch the negotiation times to the maximum. Next week he will dedicate it to continue receiving associations and members of civil society to, according to the Executive, listen to their demands and build a potential government program for the 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 upon his return from vacation, which would lead him and other PSOE members to meet personally with the PNV, ERC, JxCat or Miguel Ángel Revilla's party, the PRC, to try to tie his support. Dessert was always going to be United We, who wants to present the possible support of others as a measure of additional strength to give their support without the counterpart of having ministers.

None of this seems to be finally like this. Upon arrival, this calendar is delayed at least 10 days. Isabel Celaá explained yesterday that there will be no contacts during this weekend with the PNV and that Sánchez will be focused only on her attendance tomorrow at the G-7 summit held in Biarritz (France). The city's proximity to the Basque Country had served as an excuse to start the last round of contacts with the PNV, but the plans have changed.

Celaá justified the delay of this and the other meetings in which the president wants to “consolidate” first “a programmatic political project”. And that would mean "waiting" at the end of August, once heard from civil society, to "from there" address contact with political leaders. "It is the president who marks the times," he said.

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