Pablo Iglesias rehearses his alliance with social activism to 'place' his policies before Pedro Sánchez has Budgets

• Ciudadanos.Arrimadas toughens the negotiation of Budgets and demands that the Government withdraw the amendment from Spanish

• The pacts The Government does not take for granted and reiterates that it will study the amendments of Cs and those of ERC

• Podemos.Iglesias withdraws the order to knock down the Budgets after agreeing with the PSOE to regulate the rent in 4 months

The approval of the Budgets for 2021 marks a rubicon for United We Can.

Although the coalition is set as a horizon to exhaust the legislature, in the

formation they

are aware that the approval of the public accounts is a turning point, firstly, because it gives Pedro Sánchez a lifeline to stay in Moncloa - extending these Budgets if it were precise- and, second, because it will make it more difficult to place measures that have not already been agreed.

Hence, Pablo Iglesias has

increased pressure on

PSOE

, in tandem with movements and social activists, even with a sort of order of not supporting the accounts, to promote political measures outside the public accounts The scenario that opens the approval of the Budgets is a kind of room with two walls that imprison

We can

.

In theory, it guarantees the continuity of the coalition even until the legislature is exhausted;

but, at the same time,

They see their margin of action narrowed if not exhausted, under the argument that the roadmap is set by the Budgets.

And what does not appear ... Hence, they bet on adding coal to the machine, even knowing that it means tightening the seams of the coalition.The maximum exponent of this strategy was the threat of United We Can

not support

the Budgets of his own Government but a calendar was agreed to regulate the rent.

A pulse with Calviño and Montero

An ordeal that was made explicit just a few hours after the draft of the public accounts was approved by the Council of Ministers and that was staged, in addition to the support of social activism, with a document signed by all the investiture partners. has its continuity in the demand to prohibit evictions or the cut of basic supplies, at least while Spain is under a

state of alarm

.

These are claims that Podemos consider closely linked to their political DNA, but they frame it in a struggle where they place, above all, the economic ministers

Nadia calviño

Y

Maria Jesus Montero

On the opposite side of the table.In this pulse, Unidos Podemos has launched the strategy that Iglesias already meditated months ago: that social movements pressure the Government to ally with them in the struggle with the

PSOE

and try to tip the balance towards your side. "It is a special moment when it comes to opening the possibility of progressive and social justice, with the danger of a contrary direction, I think there is a very important part of society that needs you and it needs you strong. And at least a part of the Government that needs you and needs you very strong, "was the message from Iglesias in mid-October.

The messages of Iglesias

"Civil society and social movements must assume that their capacity for pressure is a condition for the possibility that governments can do certain things. We need you to pressure us." "As social activists and militants, it is essential that we be an active part in the defense of the interests of the popular sectors, "was the internal order of Podemos to its militants at the beginning of October. Thus, movements such as the

Tenants Union

wave

PAH

are those who lead the social pressure against the PSOE, for example, focusing on

Jose Luis Ábalos

, while Iglesias and Podemos lead the political side, trying to raise these issues to the Council of Ministers. "In the midst of the worst pandemic in 100 years, thousands of families are being victims of a brutal wave of evictions. The head of this violation of fundamental rights is the State Government, since it is the one who has the competence and who can stop the evictions immediately by decree. When Minister Ábalos assures in parliament that he has already prohibited evictions, he is lying, "was the campaign launched a year ago. week by the Tenants Union.

Evictions, in the spotlight

In turn, the PAH sent a document to Ábalos, flagging a protest last week before the

Congress

and this Wednesday he returns to the door of the Lower House to demand the suspension of evictions from the beginning of the state of alarm, with the parties that support the initiative and "with the intention of moving the PSOE from its position closer to politics from

PP

,

Citizens

Y

Vox

, to really care about the families. "And in the middle, from the vice-presidency of Iglesias there is public pressure for the Government to effectively prohibit evictions.

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