Concern in the Government regarding the flight of votes in the appointments of the Constitutional Court

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The "pact of the nose clip." This is how the agreement sealed between the Government and the PP to renew the Constitutional Court is already known and which includes the appointment of

, proposed by the PP and accepted by the PSOE and United We Can, and protagonist of several irregularities uncovered by the media. This situation has caused socialist and

deputies

not only to be suspicious, but to publicly criticize that Arnaldo will have the votes of his parties.

This circumstance, that of the patent internal unrest in the PSOE and United We Can, causes concern in the Government parties. Not so much because the vote is in danger, since both parties do not even contemplate that 36 deputies from both formations break discipline and vote against - only if 36 or more deputies from the PSOE and United We can do so would endanger the pact-, But because the fact that there are unruly - and it is assumed that there may be - transfers an image of division and censorship to a candidate to whom the Government gave its green light. Breaking the voting unit would convey an image of division that would blur the already criticized pact.

"The vote belongs to the deputies and is secret," they admit from the Government parties, where individual verses are not ruled out. Moreover, it is admitted that there may be, although internal messages have been reinforced to comply with what was ordered. Deputies such as

,

,

or

have publicly questioned, through statements and writings, the fact that their parties are going to endorse Arnaldo. They have spoken of voting "with a clamp on the nose."

Even the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, was forced to admit this Wednesday that he does not "like some of the candidates that the PP has proposed for the Constitutional Court" and made a veiled appeal to the PSOE and United We Can to comply with discipline voting, which accounts for the concern: "The duty of the Government is to save the agreement to renew the constitutional bodies and allow their unblocking."

The important thing was to close a pact

"We are a responsible and respectful party. We respect the agreements and we are responsible to exercise the discipline of the group when the management decides the vote that we have to cast," was the call to order from Felipe Sicilia, PSOE spokesman.

The vote of the deputies to endorse the four candidates to the Constitutional Court agreed by the Government and the PP -

,

,

and

- is secret and telematic.

Each candidate needs 210 votes out of the 350 that make up Congress.

The PSOE, the PP-UPN and United We can go up to 245 votes.

In the Government they justify their position of endorsing Arnaldo on the grounds that they could not be the ones to veto or block the pact.

The need for the Executive to address the renewal of the Judiciary leads them to "swallow this toad."

"Doing this was the lesser evil," admit government sources, who reject that all the controversy takes its toll on them.

They argue that the important thing was to close a pact with the PP and that this was prioritized over the proposed names, giving socialist and

freedom

to put their candidates on the table, without vetoes on the other side.

There is no going back

But in view of the cascade of known irregularities of Arnaldo they have tried to build a firewall: "The PSOE takes charge of the appointments it proposes, but not of those proposed by other groups."

A confusing and contradictory message, because they signed the pact and ask to ratify it this Thursday.

Coalition sources consulted by EL MUNDO point out the impossibility of reversing now because that would imply dynamiting any option to face the renewal of the Judicial Power, still pending, and, they believe, would open the door for the PP to propose in a new negotiation names of a profile like Arnaldo or more politicians.

"It would cause the constitutional bodies not to be renewed," these sources explain.

"Getting into a negotiation like this is always a risk because there are options that it will go wrong, even more so when the PP is involved. But in a matter that involves contributing to the State, such as unlocking institutions or ending the conservative majority of Power Judicial, we cannot be out, "they reason from United We Can.

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