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The last few days have shown that although the Government is struggling to have a single word, there are many voices that want to speak. Have a presence. That, in a cabinet of 23 armchairs generates tensions, rifirrafes like those lived in matters of immigration or the law of sexual freedom. Although the ministers advocate "unity", both formations have established mechanisms to try to minimize their discrepancies and even manage to anticipate them.

The purpose is to safeguard the image of the Government, avoid the erosion of the coexistence of two forces that in some cases disagree. "It is notorious that in some matters we think differently. It is healthy that there is, but we try to act with unity," say coalition sources.

This same Saturday, Pablo Iglesias, in an act of United We said that the way to "close certain controversies have enlarged the image of unity."

But each friction leaves wounds and, to prevent them from bleeding, the PSOE and United We can try to agree on a common position on issues where they diverge before issues jump into the public sphere. It is intended that discrepancies do not influence and repeat situations such as those experienced.

This happened with the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights ( ECHR ) that endorsed hot returns . In Moncloa, after knowing the opinion, there was a conclave in which besides Pedro Sánchez, Carmen Calvo or Arancha González Laya, Pablo Iglesias and Irene Montero attended. Podemos had a more critical view than the PSOE of the sentence - Rafael Mayoral described it as "unpresentable."

Two coordination commissions

If that first filter fails, as happened with immigration or the sexual freedom law, both parties agreed to create the permanent coordination commission between United Podemos and the PSOE, with members who are in the Government, and the parliamentary coordination commission.

It was within the first meeting where the disagreement between Equality and Justice on the reform of the Criminal Code to shield the only yes is yes , with a cession by the socialist sector towards the purple .

Sources of the parliamentary group of United We can indicate that in these meetings it was demonstrated that the coordination mechanisms "work; when there are discrepancies, we meet and solve it". "The assessment of coordination and relations between both government parties is positive."

However, this anti-discrepancy plan has a capital scenario in Congress to try to overcome new crises. Adriana Lastra and Pablo Echenique, spokesmen of the PSOE and United We, respectively, talk both on Mondays and Tuesdays to see a common strategy in Congress before the opposition of the rights and to know if there are differences in the matters to be processed.

In case there are differences, the spokesmen see whether or not there are meeting points. Although sometimes it is not achieved, as in the request to declassify the Billy El Niño service sheet.

The propositions of law of understanding

United We, in that desire to minimize disagreements, has selected the nine proposals of law that it wants to promote in the coming months under the premise that they are those with which there may be an understanding with the PSOE. He has already registered two, one to repeal the maximum periods of instruction of summaries - admitted for processing by the Plenary - and another to decriminalize the pickets and repeal the article of the Criminal Code that imposes jail sentences.

The latter, United We decided this week not to take it to the Plenary of Congress despite having the consent of the Government. There is the circumstance that, like the sexual freedom law, it clashes with the field of Justice for supposing a change of the Criminal Code, but sources of United We can allege that they withdrew it because they had not yet decided in their group whether to promote it or do not.

Although at this point the purples deny a new friction with Justice, both Government partners have established the Secretary of State for Relations with the Courts -dependent of Vice President Carmen Calvo- as a sort of mediator, of parliamentary arbitrator as a method of prevention of discrepancies

From United We can refer to it the proposals of law before, even, to register them - something not obligatory, that the other parties do not do -, so that the Government, the different ministries, express their opinion on them.

Within a week or so, they receive the reply. In some cases with objections, in others supporting them. From the purple formation they bet to prioritize the tune with the action of the Government, for that reason in spite of sending it to the Executive they do not suppose that they are going to register them or they are going to be modified.

The PSOE knows what these prioritized laws are - Echenique has communicated it to Lastra - and the commitment to achieve consensus if there is any point of friction in them.

Reserved expenses or freedom of expression

In addition to the two initiatives mentioned, United We have already sent to this Secretary of State another seven initiatives that it has prepared, although it has not yet registered them in Congress.

These are propositions of law that deal with matters such as the agrarian system, the reserved expenses -publish the data of the reserved expenses 10 years after its use-, the military penal code -does not apply to the Civil Guard-, the relocation of the industry -measures against the escape of subsidized companies from the industrial sector, including the obligation to remain at least 10 years in Spain after receiving State aid-, or the freedom of expression - to totally or partially decriminalize crimes of exalting terrorism , the insults to the Crown and other institutions, the outrage to Spain or the offense to religious feelings.

They have also submitted proposals for laws that address the national civil protection system or the elimination of segregation by sex. In this case, he asks that no school that practices educational segregation for reasons of sex be supported with public funds.

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