Pedro Sánchez looks back to ERC to approve the Budgets

• Catalonia.The Government agrees to convene the dialogue table for ERC to negotiate the Budgets

• Justice.The Supreme Court could disqualify Quim Torra this week

Budgets have become the noose on the string.

Citizens and ERC pull each side to win the game and make them more theirs.

United We Can has turned all its efforts to add strength with the Catalan Republicans.

His strategy, in

and in

, is to make Gabriel Rufián's formation a partner to the detriment of Inés Arrimadas' party.

Public and media pressure included.

In this last week that door, which seemed closed, Government sources now see it accessible.

The socialist bloc no longer sees it as impossible and the independentistas are more receptive.

United We can have given itself almost completely to convince Pedro Sánchez to rearm the investiture bloc, with ERC, the PNV, the minority regionalists and, if necessary, EH Bildu.

First, by political proximity;

second, to avoid a negotiation and a photo with Cs very uncomfortable for Iglesias;

and third, because in the

formation it

pinches the possibility that a resignation from the investiture block will bring an abstention from the PP.

A few days ago in

the option of nationalists and minority parties was trading down.

In Podemos, where many saw the battle with the economic ministers of the socialist sector as lost, Pedro Sánchez was ugly for not having fought enough for ERC's support.

They looked with suspicion at the communication channel that Moncloa has set up with Arrimadas.

However, the perception of the situation has changed in the headquarters of the Vice President of the Government.

Iglesias, in his most mediatic week in recent times, has clearly and consciously pressed to place Gabriel Rufián as a partner ahead of Ciudadanos.

«The order we agreed upon is one of sanity and parliamentary courtesy.

We first spoke with the groups that supported the investiture, then with those who abstained, and then with the bloc on the right.

It is made of a pine wood box, ”Iglesias said, suggesting that Pedro Sánchez agrees.

The change in ERC's willingness to negotiate has been decisive

Statements aside, ERC's door opens clearly.

In recent days, the Prime Minister called Quim Torra to convene the negotiating table, an essential element for any negotiation with ERC;

attacked Cs in Congress by placing him in the photo of Colón next to the PP and Vox, and has announced that he is already working on the reform of the crimes of rebellion and sedition, as the Minister of Justice explained yesterday in EL MUNDO.

Faced with the insistence of Podemos, the socialist bloc officially insist that they will sit down to negotiate with all the parties, except Vox.

Ciudadanos continues to be a support of great importance, to those who do not lose sight of and want to take care of, in the face of the instability that their ERC always implies.

But if a few weeks ago the independentistas were seen far from the orbit of the Budgets, now they verify a new attitude.

The Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, highlighted this this week.

She believes that Esquerra "has been very clear" in her "willingness to sit down and talk" and stressed that the Executive "has always been committed to consolidating the majority of the investiture."

Ups and downs of Torra

To date, the message that the Republicans transmitted is that Carles Puigdemont's offensive against them, with elections in

in the making, prevented a rapprochement with the Executive.

There was no use trying to convince them that defending a left-wing policy would also be profitable for them.

Now that message has begun to permeate ERC, or at least that is how the socialist part of the Government sees it.

They see the Republicans "upset" by the ups and downs of Torra.

The president of the Generalitat has everyone disoriented.

Nor does Moncloa know what to expect after this week the Supreme Court predictably confirmed his disqualification.

They think that he will remain in charge of the

"in a symbolic way", but admit that "nobody knows where he is going to go."

In any case, the call for elections in autumn in Catalonia is removed and that "softens" Esquerra's position.

The great handicap is the instability in Catalonia, with the disqualification of Torra

All this, as of today, in a scenario that evolves every week.

The negotiation of the Budgets has also caused cracks in United We Can, but the analysis of the leadership of Iglesias is that going with ERC is what gives the coalition government the most "coherence".

For the purple ones, not only the Budgets are at stake, but their political strategy and future.

The upcoming Catalan elections are a new turning point for the party, in the grip of a pressing electoral decline.

His claim and roadmap is for the commons, the Catalan sector led by Ada Colau, to obtain support to be able to join ERC and form a Government.

"With the support of the PSC, inside or outside the Government."

That is why, at United We Can, it would not even be frowned upon to wait for the Catalan elections, which are scheduled for February, to carry out the public accounts for 2021.

This position would clash with the Government's intention to take them to Congress before October 15, when it will send its economic roadmap to Brussels.

This continues to be the intention of the

, although the terms are beginning to tighten.

The spending ceiling will not be brought to the House until the end of the month and it is already assumed that everything will be delayed due to the difficulties of the negotiation.

The

believe

that a delay would free ERC, now prey of its battle against Torra and Puigdemont, and that if an alliance or a tripartite was formed, not only would the Government be reached, but also stability in Madrid would be ensured, as sources point out consulted, the Republicans would have to support the coalition government yes or yes.

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