• Policy. The Government advises Podemos that it will be necessary to "adapt" its agreement to add other parties to the Budget.

The Government begins to relax its positions in an attempt to create enough critical mass to enable it to carry out State Budgets for the 2021 financial year. Essential public accounts to face the serious economic effects of the pandemic, access and distribute the aid that comes from of the European Union and promote the recovery of the sectors most affected by the coronavirus.

However, his intention to "modulate" the ideological approaches of his government coalition pact with United Podemos does not seem at the moment sufficient to attract all the allies he will need to approve new public accounts.

The problem that the Executive faces is called "crossed vetoes", or what is the same, the base incompatibility that exists between a good number of parliamentary forces and that turns Pedro Sánchez's aspiration into an exercise, for the moment impossible , to square the circle.

The first opposition party, the PP, one of the cornerstones that the Budget should support as the basis for the revival of the country, is only willing to close a pact with the PSOE in this fundamental area if Sánchez abandons his "drift" and breaks You tie up with United We Can, with the secessionist forces and with the abertzales and you agree to a pact with the "constitutionalist" formations, which defend the spirit of the Transition and of the 78. At that point, it would even be possible to form a Government "of concentration ", as explained by the PP parliamentary spokeswoman, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, at the end of the Board of Spokespersons in Congress.

The PP raises the bar of demands knowing that the State Budgets are the law that best reflects the path by which the Government wants to lead the country and, consequently, they are its ideological mirror, but also that its approval guarantees at least a two-year survival to the Executive. Under these conditions, the price of your support goes up many integers.

Consequently, the popular maintain, as Álvarez de Toledo has stated, that "to forge a great budgetary agreement it is necessary for the PSOE to abandon its drift." "The day that happens," added the spokeswoman for the popular ones, putting a marked tone of skepticism in his words, "the country will advance towards a great pact." At the moment, in his opinion, "trying to square frankenstein is an impossible mission."

However, the difficulties do not come only from the PP. Also Sánchez's own investiture allies put complaints and claims on the table. The clearest are those of ERC.

The independence republicans have declared their total "incompatibility" with Ciudadanos and in this way they warn the Government that a budget agreement that includes the orange formation will collide head-on with their support.

"It is one thing to give in and another, blackmail," said Gabriel Rufian. For ERC Budgets "agreed with a right-wing party and that was in the photo of Columbus" is totally incompatible not only with its fundamental approaches but also "with any just measure of the left."

Rufian has already made clear the impossibility of ERC and Cs being on the same playing field. For him, "Ciudadanos es Vox en la Fase 1" and Arrimadas is nothing more than an imitation of "Cospedal y Aguirre". "ERC and CS, the two things cannot be," he said emphatically, calling for Sánchez to choose and turning his eyes mainly to Podemos, the government partner who, in his opinion, "should be more uncomfortable with an equation in the one between Cs ".

For its part, the PNV, more prudent, chooses to see, hear and wait. Aitor Esteban explained that his training, before committing to any promise of support, wants to calibrate the spending ceiling that the Government brings to Congress and, afterwards, carefully analyze the budget proposal sent to the House. Basque nationalists prefer not to anticipate before knowing "each other's claims". They say they are willing to "negotiate" although they warn that, as is well known, PNV and Cs have practically nothing in common.

Vox, the third force of the Chamber, does not offer any pact possibilities either. "The Budget project," maintains Iván espinosa de los Monteros, "is where a government is truly defined. It would be very difficult for us to reach an agreement with a government that agrees with Bildu or with the independence movement."

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