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The national leadership of the PP believes that it was fully successful in not supporting the extension of the state of alarm decreed as a result of the coronavirus crisis, given that "Sánchez has deceived Citizens" and that the PSOE itself has left tremendously worn out of the parliamentary congregation of the Wednesday.

The analysis carried out in Genoa is as follows: the pact of the Socialists and United We Can with Bildu on the repeal of the popular labor reform has generated a notable division within the Executive and has increased distrust of the orange formation .

In this way, Pedro Sánchez's weakness has increased at a time when the EU bailout appears in the distance. And the fight to repeal the labor reform will arouse even more misgivings in the European Commission and in the partners of central Europe, so that Spain will not be able to escape the "conditionality" of community aid.

This scenario leads, in the PP's opinion, to a "rupture" between Pablo Iglesias and Pedro Sánchez, because the only way to get around the rescue would be by approving "structural reforms" contrary to United We Can.

Spain, against what Germany expects

The PP believes that repealing - totally or partially - the 2012 labor reform would give the EU a clear signal that Spain is going in the opposite direction to the structural reforms expected by Germany, and, therefore, the rescue would be conditional. In Genoa they think that this would suppose a serious crisis for the Executive: "Sánchez does not want to go to the Mede because he knows that he is going to demand enormous conditions that his partner cannot allow, and that would break the government."

"To avoid a very onerous rescue, you have to give credibility, with serious structural reforms, such as the labor reform of Fátima Báñez and the financial reform of Luis de Guindos. That is the opposite of the ostrich policy that [Nadia] Calviño does "they argue in the surroundings of Pablo Casado. "And there has been no European aid or rescue mechanism in which there has been no conditionality. None," they add.

"The credibility of the Government with respect to voters and at the international level has been seriously damaged as of this moment," sources from the national leadership pointed out on Thursday. "Furthermore," they add, "Sánchez has always promised international investors that he would not repeal the entire reform, but would only change some aspects, because it has worked very well."

And now United We Can demands the complete and immediate replacement of the PP's labor framework, which is something that was signed in the pact with Bildu. Pacta sunt servanda , what is agreed requires.

For this reason, the PP is going to carry out an outright defense of the labor reform. For starters, Casado has called Báñez, who was the architect of the rule along with De Guindos. "These ERTE that the Government has approved are possible thanks to the labor reform of the PP. Otherwise, the ERTE would not have been carried out yet, due to the administrative process" so long that they had until then, they argue in the popular leadership .

The 'ingenuity' of Arrimadas

The exegesis of the popular ones also stops at Ciudadanos, a party that is ugly for having been deceived by Sánchez, at the same time that they ask him not to make an agreement with the Executive again. Neither the sanitary measures, nor the Budgets.

Genoa believes that Inés Arrimadas has been naive in her pact with the Government, given Sánchez's "move" to also agree with Bildu behind the orange leader's back . The popular respondents assure that they have already warned the leader of Ciudadanos that the president would prioritize "marketing" and "betray" him with his investiture partners, including the left of abertzale . "We warned them of what could happen to them," they cut short.

The former Prime Minister José María Aznar also criticized that Cs had agreed to the extension of the state of alarm while the Government agreed to the repeal of the labor reform "with the heirs of ETA." The support of the oranges seems "unjustified" and "unnecessary". Aznar predicted a social "catastrophe" and "again the Spain of the hunger queues".

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