The PNV spokesman Aitor Esteban has demanded from the next Spanish Government a "solution to the problems of territorial fit of the Basque nation and the Catalan nation " in his first assessment of the principle of agreement between Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias . Esteban has announced that he has had a brief telephone conversation with PSOE spokeswoman Adriana Lastra after the press conference offered by the leaders of PSOE and United Podemos and has dispatched with a "We'll see!" the question of whether the 7 Basque nationalist deputies will now again support the investiture of Pedro Sánchez as president of the Government of Spain.

Esteban has denounced the "lack of obvious responsibility" of Sánchez and Iglesias after losing half a year, more than 1.5 million votes between both parties, the majority that the PSOE had in the Senate and having facilitated the electoral growth of Vox. "Spain is a world of contrasts," he said to joke with the change in the political scene that he has compared to "Groundhog Day" in the past months to mutate in 'Fast and Furius', the series of films with continuous car races.

"It should not have been so difficult," Esteban insisted that he will be one of the negotiators with the PSOE if Sanchez maintains his priority for seeking the support of the parties that allowed him to be inaugurated president in June 2018 by forcing the motion of censure against Mariano Rajoy . "We will be constructive," said the nationalist spokesman in Congress who wanted to underline the need for the development of the agreement signed today between Sánchez and Iglesias has to "respect each other's competence" and, in addition, has highlighted that this time the principle of agreement has not been previously telegraphed to the media.

For its part, Catalan independence has not felt pressured by the speed with which the PSOE and United We have signed its pre-agreement on governance. Both JxCat and ERC, the training that has the key to the investiture, for the moment refuse to facilitate the re-election of Pedro Sánchez and make any modification of his position subject to the socialist candidate agree to negotiate the "right of self-determination."

"Right now, our position is a no. If you want something from ERC, you have to sit down and talk. Understand that in Catalonia there is a political conflict and not coexistence as the pre-agreement between the PSOE and Podemos says, and give you a political solution" , said the spokeswoman for the Republicans.

Marta Vilalta recalled - as Gabriel Rufián already warned - that "the scenario has changed a lot since July", when ERC abstained to facilitate the failed investiture of Sánchez that led to the electoral repetition. The party chaired by Oriol Junqueras believes that collaborating now with Sánchez is much more complicated after the president of the acting Government has "applauded the Supreme Court's ruling and repeatedly denied dialogue with the Government of the Generalitat."

Even more complicated is the support of JxCat, who already voted against Sánchez's investiture four months ago and presented himself to the generals with the promise of blocking state governance. "While there are prisoners, exiles, reprisals and as long as you can not talk about the right to self-determination, which seems to be the mental framework that we have bought We can, it is clear that we can not invest or allow the investiture of a president like Sánchez," assured the head of the list of neoconvergents, Laura Borràs .

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