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Still confident in gaining significant weight on the results of April 28, the PSOE does not share the stalemate pointed out by the latest published surveys - among them that of EL MUNDO, drawn up by Sigma Two that reflects a rise only from 123 to 127 -.

Five weeks, the time until the 10-N elections, they say, is a long time. "We are at the starting point," said the acting government president and socialist candidate, Pedro Sánchez, on Monday, in an interview with Antena 3.

They believe that the 'procés' sentence will change everything, that the electoral campaign will change at another time and that the Government will be favored if it is necessary to offer a legal or institutional reaction to a scenario of disobedience in Catalonia.

This is the vision in Moncloa, a campaign from less to more. And that the repetition of the elections raise their number of deputies. After the elections there are few changes on how Sanchez will try the investiture. Different sources of the party indicate two ways. Or the sum of a majority with Más País - the new party of Íñigo Errejón-, Unidos Podemos and PNV.

Or all these parties, depending on the result or some of them, that allow the Socialists two things. One, do not depend on ERC in any way. And two, that the position of Pablo Iglesias be weakened in this new arithmetic and resign to demand ministries.

The other alternative is the abstention of the PP or Citizens. Part of the socialist leadership is committed to this variable for the unlocking of the Government. The PSOE will again request that they abstain for free, such as after 28-A.

This scenario was validated by Sánchez himself in Antena 3 , where he opted for a progressive-oriented Executive, which is what he said, citizens voted on April 28 and in the European, regional and local May 26. Of course, without having Iglesias or any leader of United We can head a ministry. "As they conceive the coalition is unfeasible."

Its purpose is that the political situation in Spain "can be unlocked based on agreements" so that there is a "coherent government that does not depend on the independence forces." In his opinion, this does not happen in any case by the great coalition that have been jointly defended by former socialist president Felipe González, and former popular president Mariano Rajoy.

"It's a trick" from United Podemos and the PP, he defended. Because the first, he explained in reference to the Iglesias party, uses it to attack the PSOE after having voted "four times" against a socialist president. And the latter, "to hide their pacts with the extreme right."

The vice-secretary general of the PSOE and spokesperson for the Congress, Adriana Lastra , came to hold the same thing in a morning interview on TVE on Monday. Hopefully in a "great result" on 10-N, she said that to govern they will try a "programmatic agreement with the leftist forces, if we need it as it seems, but what we want is a strong and stable government", in reference to that there are no ministers of other parties.

The collaboration of PP and Lastra Citizens limited it to reaching agreements on the major issues of State. The Government "left and right" that Moncloa has been pursuing since the night of 28-A. Therefore, despite the proposed understanding of the two major parties, launched last week by Gonzalez and Rajoy, no one at the PSOE contemplates a large coalition with the PP in the German way.

"A great coalition in Spain is absurd," Lastra said. "It will never take place." A statement confirming that a possible abstention is expected without compensation of any kind. In fact, Sanchez has been reproached during these months for not making a concrete proposal to PP or Citizens to try to refrain.

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