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PSOE and Podemos have convened for the next Thursday, the 12th, a meeting of the Permanent Commission for Follow-up of the Coalition Agreement , which will take place when this week the frictions in the Executive led by Pedro Sánchez have worsened, as sources from the Press have confirmed to Europa Press purple match.

What will be the second meeting of this control body, which was established on February 18, will take place in a context in which there have been clashes between ministries led by the two parties that make up the Coalition Government for issues such as Future Law on the Guarantee of Sexual Freedom or the guide issued by the Ministry of Labor to act in the workplace before the coronavirus.

Other issues that have produced discrepancies between the PSOE and United We can have been the so-called 'hot returns' of immigrants, the appeal of the State Advocacy against the sentence that requires compensation to the family of José Couso or the commission of inquiry on the alleged millionaire donations from bank accounts abroad linked to King emeritus Juan Carlos I.

Precisely one of the objectives of this commission was to solve "the discrepancies that may arise in the area of ​​the coalition government."

The creation of this control body was foreseen in the 'Protocol of operation, coordination, development and monitoring of the progressive coalition government agreement' that PSOE and United We signed on January 8, one day after the inauguration that the president Pedro Sanchez

In the constitutive meeting, participated by the PSOE, the president's chief of staff, Iván Redondo; the general secretary of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños ; the undersecretary of the Ministry of the Presidency, Antonio Hidalgo ; the Secretary of State for Communication, Miguel Ángel Oliver ; Carmen Calvo's cabinet address, Mª Isabel Valldecabres ; and the socialist spokeswoman in Congress, Adriana Lastra.

Podemos was represented by the Director of Strategy and Communication of the Second Vice Presidency of the Government, Juanma del Olmo ; the spokesman for United We in Congress, Pablo Echenique; the Chief of Staff of the Second Vice Presidency of the Government, Julio Rodríguez ; and the secretary of State of Agenda 2030 and deputy of United We Can in Congress, Ione Belarra .

Commission Objectives

Among other functions, this body is responsible for " reviewing the functioning of the coalition and the fulfillment of the proposed objectives , coordinating the action between both partners, unifying criteria, agreeing political positions for the development of the government program", and "solving the discrepancies that may arise within the scope of the coalition government. "

In addition, according to the text of the agreement, it will serve to ensure that when it comes to own initiatives or other groups on issues outside the Government's action or its program, but that "have a high impact on the political scene or in sectoral areas of the state policy ", the partners consult their respective position and seek that they are not contradictory to each other."

"In any case - the protocol requires - the partners undertake to coordinate their communication." In the other cases (matters outside the Government that do not affect it in a great way), the protocol establishes that it will be enough to inform the parliamentary representative of the other group within the dynamic of permanent dialogue and coordination .

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