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The Pedro Sánchez investiture race will have one last stop this Friday. The PSOE has convened for day 3 a meeting of its Executive that must validate the agreements reached with the rest of political formations that guarantee his election as President of the Government. A management decision will endorse the commitments signed with the PNV and with ERC. Not even a Federal Committee will be held - the highest body between congresses - where the who is who of the PSOE is represented, to encourage a minimum of internal debate.
And all in spite of the surprise that the concession to the Basque nationalists has supposed to carry out «the necessary reforms to adapt the structure of the State to the recognition of the territorial identities» and that yesterday it transcended that the dialogue table between Government and Generalitat, agreed with the Catalan independentistas, includes a citizen consultation on the future conclusions. None of this has been discussed previously in the match. In fact, the organization has learned about these details through the press.
The appointment in Ferraz, in addition, will take place only 24 hours before the plenary session begins in Congress. Its president informed the parliamentary groups yesterday of her intention to start the session on Saturday, the 4th, which will lead to the first vote being held on Sunday the 5th. Without enough votes to obtain an absolute majority at that time, Sanchez must wait 48 more and submit again to the Chamber's criteria on Tuesday, January 7.
This is the forecast, if as expected, tomorrow the National Consell of ERC ratifies the proposal of its address to abstain in the investiture of Sanchez. An accelerated calendar that allows the socialist leader to appeal only to the endorsement of his Executive. The dome of the PSOE ensures that it is the usual procedure.
The pact with Podemos has the previous endorsement of militancy. It is the negotiations with the independentists that have caused more suspicion within the PSOE. First, because the elections were repeated precisely so as not to have to govern in coalition with Pablo Iglesias or depend on the vote of the separatists. And both are what the party is now forced to accept.
In the case of Podemos, it is a natural agreement for the Socialists, which many barons and members of the Executive defended hard.
Sanchez's refusal after the failed investiture of July to give him a new opportunity and the idea of his chief of staff, Iván Redondo, that in a new election they would win a moderate vote from Citizens, led to new elections, despite the criteria in against the bulk of the socialist leadership and the stupefaction of territorial cadres.
The result could not be more catastrophic: fewer votes, fewer seats, more difficulties to form government and greater subordination to Podemos and ERC. The negotiation with both parties has been carried out in the most absolute secrecy. The government's program of the coalition with Iglesias was made public on Monday but the details of the agreement with ERC barons have been interested in the leaks made by Republicans to make it clear that they have managed to impose their demands.
However, the president of the acting Executive promised that the pact with the independentists would make it known himself and also that in none of its extremes would it leave the current constitutional legality.
Page and Lambán ask to fulfill the Constitution
The two barons of the PSOE that have made more repairs with the independentists for the investiture, the president of Castilla-La Mancha , Emiliano García-Page, and Aragon , Javier Lambán, took advantage of their institutional New Year's speeches last night to make a call to defend the Constitution , just after they have transcended the commitments reached with the PNV and with ERC. García-Page said it is "our country insurance", which guarantees "limits, guarantees, rights and freedom" in Spain.
The Manchego leader also said that the defense of unity in Spain "is a moral commitment that concerns us, above all, to those who defend equality. At a time when Pedro Sánchez has chosen to embrace a plurinational model to gain the support of Basque nationalists and Catalan independentists, Page said that although he is aware of the plurality of the country, the difference "cannot be confused with inequality." In Castilla-La Mancha, he said, "we have no identity problems, we know very well what we are." «We are not a nation, vice versa. We depend on the great nation that is Spain ».
For his part, President Lambán said in his address that the Government will have the loyalty of Aragon, that it will not generate any territorial tension, but warned that it must be reciprocated »and that« we will not admit that, to appease those that other regions may generate , they are granted privileges or favor deals ». If that happens, he said, we will appeal to the full force of the Constitution and the Statute of Autonomy to avoid it.
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