The conditions of Pablo Iglesias to agree with Pedro Sánchez: coalition with six or seven ministries and an armchair for him

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The 10-N has once again led to a setback for United We, with a loss of seven deputies and 653,960 votes compared to April generals. However, the formation management believes that despite the loss of muscle the political scene has not changed and remains the same, that is, they conclude, their seats are essential to achieve a progressive government and a stable parliamentary majority in Congress. If Pedro Sánchez wants to add more than PP, Vox and Cs need the purple ones. Hence, Iglesias does not give in to his demands and asks for a "proportional to the votes" co-government and with him in the Council of Ministers. These are the conditions that are currently on the table of United We can:

Proportional Coalition: between 6 and 7 ministries

Iglesias does not move a millimeter from his tile. In the campaign of the general elections of April it demanded the entrance of United We can in the Government and now it continues demanding the same. On the same election night, the leader of Podemos already warned Pedro Sánchez: he is "willing to negotiate from today a coalition government", where each party is "represented exclusively in proportion to the votes it has had." The PSOE has obtained 6,752,983 votes and United We can 3,097,185 votes. That is, slightly less than half that of the socialists. The current Council of Ministers is composed of 17 armchairs. Half would therefore be eight ministries. As the purple ones have obtained, in number of ballots, a little less than half, it is to be assumed that Iglesias will put on the table the request of six or seven ministries, according to his criteria of proportionality. "To those millions (of voters) I say: we are not going to give away your vote, your vote is a sacred mandate to be in the Government changing things in this country," Iglesias said at his first campaign rally.

In April he agreed to give up proportionality, an assignment that is not expected to be made now. That, as long as it is a coalition between both parties and there are no more actors. Well, if it were a co-government of more parties, that rank would decrease.

An armchair in the Council of Ministers for Churches

Pablo Iglesias will not accept any personal veto. He did it in April, stepping aside, because, he has justified, it was an "exceptional" situation. Now it will not. He has expressed on several occasions that he would not present himself as a candidate for the elections if he had to accept a new veto. The purple leader points out that he will not impose any veto on the PSOE, in the same way that they will not accept any. Therefore, the understanding between Iglesias and Sánchez happens because the first one has an armchair in the next Council of Ministers.

More direct interlocution with Sánchez

One of the actions that Pablo Iglesias regrets most is that he did not have a more direct negotiation with Pedro Sánchez during the failed dialogue after the April elections and delegated to the teams. They opted to follow the model that led to the political-budgetary pact of October 2018. The teams first negotiated, and then the leaders intervened to unblock the agreement. But when Iglesias's phone rang, he thought Sánchez was calling him to go to Moncloa to negotiate, but he did it to tell him that the negotiation was over. Iglesias regretted not having a direct interlocution, as well as trusting Sánchez. The socialist leader, at his first meeting after the 28-A elections, spoke of a coalition executive. Option that disappeared after the regional and municipal.

Iglesias always believed that Sanchez would yield and there would be co-government. He trusted him, which caused rifirrafes and tensions among the members of Unidos Podemos. Some like IU or the deputies of En Comú Podem were more supporters of programmatic pact, influencing outside the Government. Iglesias imposed his thesis: Sánchez will agree. And he fought with his own defending the PSOE. Lesson learned.

Social policies to stop Vox

The rise of Vox can be an argument in favor of the position of Pablo Iglesias. The positions of the Santiago Abascal party can spur the left parties to apply social policies and, believe in United We can, push Pedro Sánchez to look to the left, because with such a strong Vox they do not believe that the PP can yield and reach a pact of investiture or legislature with the PSOE. The rental housing market, sexist violence, the repeal of labor reform, tax justice, the bank tax, a new tax for companies that pollute ... are proposals of the purple. "Our proposal for the PSOE to achieve a coalition are the social articles of the Constitution. They are the best instrument to guarantee the welfare state and build a government that puts a brake on the progress of the extreme right," Iglesias said on the night of 10- N.

Rethink the vice presidency of Nadia Calviño

In United We were surprised that in the electoral debate of the campaign, Pedro Sánchez announced the rise of Nadia Calviño as Vice President of the Government. First, because the verdict of the polls had to be submitted first. Second, because Calviño is a minister who does not like in the purple ones. They consider that their postulates and policies are closer to rights and markets. They make her responsible for imposing the Austrian backpack on the Executive; to stop the regulation of the rental market agreed with José Luis Ábalos or not to repeal the labor reform. In the Iglesias team they have more feeling with Minister María Jesús Montero or, even with Magdalena Valerio or José Luis Ábalos. But they believe that Calviño has won the pulse of Montero. Iglesias has already warned that he does not agree with the Minister of Economy: "Calviño's model as vice president is only viable with a soft coalition with the PP. In an agreement with us I think that other people who are more left ".

A dialogue table to solve the Catalan conflict

Catalonia has always been the stone in the shoe that the PSOE has wielded to rule out a pact with United We can. The positions of the 'commons', the Catalan sector of Podemos, with its commitment to a referendum agreed as a solution to the Catalan conflict, or the fact that leaders such as Iglesias himself spoke of "political prisoners" made the Socialists scrap the understanding With the purples. United We have developed a plan for Catalonia that goes through the creation of two dialogue tables, one in the Catalan Parliament and the other in the Congress, which would address key issues such as the "self-government" shield or the review of the financing system Catalan regional. The 'commons' do defend that in order for this dialogue to take place, independence politicians must be released from freedom because "it is very difficult" to speak with some formations if "their leaders are in prison."

Finally, this phase of dialogue should lead to a new "pact" between Catalonia and Spain, which the Catalans would vote in the future.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

• PSOE
• Pedro Sanchez
• Catalonia
• PP
• Nadia Calviño
• José Luis Ábalos
• Magdalena Valerio
• Maria Jesus Montero
• IU
• In Comú Podem
• Citizens
• General elections
• Vox

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