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Although they strive to preach unity, day-to-day evidence portrays a two-headed Executive.

A struggle, sometimes buried, sometimes public, to take the lead.

This is the case with the negotiation of

.

The situation is bizarre: sitting down with Pablo Iglesias in his office, and a couple of hours later doing the same with Carmen Calvo in Congress.

Different interlocutors for the same purpose.

A mess in which the leader of Podemos manages, at least for the moment, that pro-independence forces such as ERC or EH Bildu, with whom he met yesterday, legitimize him as a valid interlocutor in the Government, while relegating to "protocol" the appointment with Calvo.

The photos of Iglesias with Gabriel Rufián (ERC) and

and

(EH Bildu) - there was no image of the meeting with Calvo - allow the second vice president of the Government to display these support and this dialogue to try to stop the sector from PSOE edge to his party in the negotiations.

approaches

to Cs and, even to the PP requesting his abstention - Calvo recently met with his spokesman

- worry and worry at United We Can.

Despite the fact that Pedro Sánchez seems to have activated the ERC route again, the purple ones are suspicious and fear that it will be a misleading move and keep the option of Inés Arrimadas up his sleeve.

Before this, Iglesias entered the scene yesterday.

He summoned

ERC and EH Bildu

in his office as

.

Appointments that were not on the official agenda, unlike Calvo's, which was also seen in Congress with the Republicans and with the Plural Group (JxCat, Mas País, Compromís ...).

A kind of bid between vice presidents to measure strength.

went to see Iglesias before Calvo, prioritized the leader of Podemos.

And his training degraded the appointment with the vice president to a "formal meeting on the legislative calendar."

The feeling of coldness contrasted with the morning appointment with Iglesias.

Sources from the second vice presidency spoke of "good harmony" with ERC and EH Bildu "regarding the need to maintain the stability of the legislature and the current course of the coalition government in the coming years, in a progressive direction supported by the parliamentary majority of the investiture ».

In addition, Podemos staged that the 13 votes of ERC and the 5 of Bildu support their approach to slam the door on Cs in the negotiation.

"It is important to choose your travel companions well," Bildu warned.

The situation in Catalonia

Iglesias, deliberately, wanted to place ERC and EH Bildu as preferred partners.

The team of the second vice president considers that the door opened by the Republicans in order to negotiate the Budgets should be taken advantage of by the Executive.

Iglesias and the leaders of Unidos Podemos have been pressing for weeks with public statements to try to close the Citizens' path.

These meetings are intended to constitute a new message for Sánchez, in the sense of showing that the decision will be his, because the possibility of the investiture block is open or, at least, they are working for it.

There is also a greater background for which United We can seek harmony with ERC.

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".

While Iglesias resumed the role of interlocutor with the independentistas to avoid losing more weight in the Government, Calvo continued in Congress his meetings with the formations that make up the Chamber.

In addition to ERC, the

played

.

An hour of meeting with the representatives of JxCAT in which the deputies Laura Borrás and

warned Calvo that he cannot expect from them an "adhesion" to the Budget project, but they are willing to "sit down and talk", although knowing that "they cannot disassociate the negotiation from the situation in Catalonia".

Borrás assured that "there are no previous red lines", but demands that the project "be shared and negotiated" and then take the appropriate decision.

"We will be waiting for the proposals," he said before assuring that the vice president has not advanced a calendar.

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