Sánchez assures that he reached an agreement "at 99%" with Casado to renew the CGPJ and the TC and the PP denies it: "We only gave the ok to negotiate"

The President of the Government,

, confirmed this Monday that he reached an agreement with the PP throughout the month of August to renew the pending institutions (the CGPJ, the TC, the Ombudsman and RTVE) and that Pablo Casado he pledged "practically 99%", to later break "inexplicably" with his word.

EL MUNDO has told today that Moncloa accuses the PP of having broken the negotiations after an agreement that "was made", something that Sánchez has reiterated in an interview with TVE, in which he has made the popular leader "exclude himself" from institutional arrangements.

The PP denies the president's version.

"We only gave the ok to negotiate," say sources from the Casado environment.

"It is very serious that a Prime Minister leaks private conversations with the leader of the opposition" to "pressure him", they add.

"It is unusual," they become unnerved.

In addition, they assure that their "no" to renew the judicial leadership had nothing to do with the dismissal of parliamentary spokesperson Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, who was against the negotiation: "We communicated it to Sánchez three days before" that dismissal .

The PP statement assures that on July 6, on the 40th anniversary of the Constitutional Court, the Vice President of the Government Carmen Calvo and the Minister of Justice asked Pablo Casado to initiate talks for the renewal of the institutional bodies.

Casado entrusted the talks to the PP Justice Secretary, Enrique López, who during the month of July made progress in the elaboration of a "Law for the reinforcement of the independence of Justice", as a previous step to the negotiations,

The PP confirms that "on July 22, Pedro Sánchez proposed the interlocutors to Pablo Casado via WhatsApp to advance in the talks on the renewal of the institutional bodies, which were accepted with a brief answer," but they insist that the opposition chief he did "without even evaluating the substance of the matter."

The Genoa communiqué attributes its refusal to agree on the renewal of the CGPJ to the "intolerable attack by the second vice president of the Government on King Don Felipe" after the announcement of the exile of Juan Carlos I.

On August 11, Podemos was charged with irregular financing while "he intensified his criticism of the Judiciary, the Monarchy, and called for a government with Bildu in the Basque Country and a budget pact with Esquerra in exchange for retaking the self-determination table of Catalonia ", adds the PP in its chronology of events.

So that "on August 14, Pablo Casado transmitted to the Government, through a face-to-face meeting of his interlocutors, that the renovation of the State institutions could not be agreed upon if Podemos had any role in it."

Podemos and the superbank

On the other hand, Sánchez has defended this Monday that his second vice president and leader of United We Can,

s, was not aware of the possible merger between

and

k, whose first bars were known at dawn on Friday, in that it was "very sensitive information" and the "confidentiality" of the process had to be guaranteed.

Despite the fact that Sánchez shares the Executive with Podemos, in an interview this morning on TVE, he justified that only the third vice president,

, knew about it

.

The president has also confirmed that PP and PSOE reached an agreement for the renewal of the

, the

, the

and

during this summer that

finally decided not to endorse.

Although the lack of harmony between Iglesias and Calviño is known and that the chief executive tries to isolate Podemos in economic decisions, the president has specified that he did not inform his partner because he feared a leak.

"Nobody in the government knew about it," he assured.

Despite acknowledging Iglesias' ignorance on this issue, Sánchez has at all times minimized the constant differences with United We Can.

The last one, on this matter.

The purple formation has always spoken out against the privatization of Bankia and has demanded that it become a public bank.

But the president has maintained today that he also "defends" the public bank.

"It is not a question of a part of the left, the ICO guarantees it," he pointed out with references to aid for liquidity and investment of companies during the pandemic.

And he has not wanted to argue about whether or not the State will recover the money from the bailout in Bankia -22-000 million euros-.

He has assured that they will try to "maximize" this public investment and defend the general interest but that they carry this "inheritance" from the previous Government.

This same position of not dwelling on the differences has been extended to other issues such as sick leave for parents with infected or quarantined children and the increase in taxes that Podemos claims for the Budget project.

Regarding the first issue, despite the fact that Iglesias pointed out that the Ministry of Labor was studying that parents can take a 75% drop if their children have to quarantine or the center closes, the president has said that for this it already works the Me Cuida program, which allows flexible working hours and has limited sick leave, in this case to 100%, if the minor is infected

Regarding the tax reform that Iglesias calls for, he has also pointed out that although it is a fact that Spain collects less than other EU countries and the welfare state must be supported, Spain has suffered a significant drop in GDP due to the incidence of the pandemic and it is necessary to "mold the economic and political objectives to this situation."

Convinced that he will be able to unite Ciudadanos ya Podemos in the Budgets and achieve a "transversal" agreement and with the commitment to reform the crime of sedition of the Penal Code, as a nod to ERC, throughout the legislature, the head of the

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