Almost three hours of meeting.

It is not one more scuffle.

It's a serious crisis, that's how ERC takes it.

The independence formation, the PSOE and the socialist sector of the Government were unable to close an agreement during the long meeting they held during the afternoon and night of this Wednesday.

They began to continue talking to reach a meeting point in the Audiovisual Law that satisfies both and prevents the Republicans from shaking the final approval of the Budgets and the majority that supports the governance of Pedro Sánchez.

The Executive's decision that the Audiovisual Law does not oblige foreign platforms such as Netflix, HBO, Disney or Amazon to allocate a 6% quota of their production to Catalan, as the PSOE agreed with ERC, has unleashed a crisis that mobilizes the Government and PSOE to lower the tension. For Catalans, the issue of language is crucial. But, at the moment, there is no water for the fire, although work will continue in the coming days to try to put it out.

The telematic meeting, "constructive" as defined by present socialist sources, served to verify that there is an "important difference" of interpretation on whether or not foreign platforms can be forced to comply with that 6% quota.

From today, contacts and the exchange of proposals and documents will continue, these sources explain, to iron out this difference and reach an agreement.

As happened with the PNV and its discontent at being displaced by Bildu in the budget negotiation, the PSOE was activated quickly, in this case on the same Tuesday evening, at night to "cool down" ERC's anger and reduce the tension.

Beyond the clash over the Audiovisual Law, Pedro Sánchez is aware that to carry the legislature until 2023 he needs the support of the nationalists.

The 155 votes that PSOE and United We can sum up are insufficient to validate the measures promoted by the Government, which Sánchez has ordered to intensify the work in the Council of Ministers to breathe oxygen into an economic reactivation that is moving at a slower pace than expected by Sanchez.

And that parliamentary weakness makes almost vital the 18 votes that ERC and Bildu add - who preach unity of action in Congress - or the 6 of the PNV.

That explains the quick reaction to put out the fires with these partners who support the Government, because breaking the so-called investiture bloc would dynamite the "stability" proclaimed by the ministers after the Congress gave the green light to the Budgets.

Contacts, calls from the Government to ERC and the willingness to negotiate improvements in the Audiovisual Law, yes, within the margins of the limits allowed by the European directive, said Vice President Nadia Calviño, was the quick response of the Government to ERC's order of They could rethink their support for Budgets.

At the meeting yesterday afternoon of the PSOE and ERC leaderships -the PSOE even attended the ministers Félix Bolaños and María Jesús Montero-, a "technique" was preceded, also telematics, in which the points of Approaches.

Neither appointment served to unblock.

The Government wants to temper spirits with the nationalists because it does not want to delay the approval of the Budgets any longer. Its purpose was to prevent changes in the Senate to prevent them from returning to Congress for a new vote. If approval could be on the 22nd in the Senate, better than waiting for the 28th in Congress.

And while trying to redirect the relationship with ERC, the PNV continues to be pampered, which the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, defines as a "priority partner."

The PNV is about to get the Government to facilitate the Basque Country to complete the works of the High Speed ​​Train (HST) with the planned burial in Vitoria and Bilbao.

Contacts are also intensifying with the PSOE and the Government.

The nationalist president Andoni Ortuzar wants to close this agreement before the processing of the budgets in the Senate is finalized these days.

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