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does not have them all with itself.

This Thursday the decree that contains the economic measures promoted by the Executive to face the crisis aggravated by the war in Ukraine is voted on in Congress.

Espionage on independence leaders has called into question the support of Pedro Sánchez's governance partners.

If this decree did not go ahead, it would be a severe setback for

.

All springs move.

Gestures are offered.

The Government promises the ERC and Bildu that the official secrets commission, where

matters such as espionage are dealt with, will be set up "immediately and imminently".

That is, they want their entry into it to be "immediate".

This commission is made up of the spokespersons for the groups in Congress and their assistants have an obligation to keep secrecy regarding what is discussed there.

The espionage to the independence leaders is a new wound in the already battered governability.

ERC continues to pressure the Government and despite the meeting this Sunday between the Minister of the Catalan Presidency,

, and the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, and leaves its parliamentary support up in the air.

In the Executive they want to believe that one thing is espionage and another social and economic laws that benefit many Spaniards, also many Catalans.

Hence they want to believe that ERC will not finally reject the decree.

But that in La Moncloa they do not see it clearly and that this crisis with their partners - to the discomfort of ERC is added that of Bildu, also affected by espionage, and PNV - is not closed is shown by the fact that they want to accelerate in the Congress the creation of the official secrets commission, which is the only place where the Executive is willing to give explanations.

crossed vetoes

It happens that this commission has not even been constituted.

It remains blocked by matches.

The crossed vetoes between the formations of the right (PP, Vox and Cs) towards the nationalist formations (ERC and EH Bildu, above all) and vice versa, has prevented it from starting.

Its members, one for each group in Congress, need the support of 210 deputies to sit on that commission.

This requires support among many parties in the Chamber, which, given the prevailing political environment, becomes unfeasible.

PP, Vox and Cs, plus the two deputies who previously belonged to UPN and the representative of Foro Asturias, add up to 152 more than enough votes to veto the election of members of the commission.

This requirement of a three-fifths majority to belong to this commission is regulated by a resolution of the Presidency of Congress of May 11, 2004. And it is a resolution of the Presidency of the Chamber that can alter that necessary majority.

The Government is "shuffling different formulas" to start it, but one could be that the president of Congress issued an opinion with a new majority that would circumvent the veto of the right-wing formations.

Therefore, the Socialists would urge President Meritxell Batet to make this new document.

At the moment, in the PSOE they argue that their position is to try to dialogue with all the groups so that the commission can be constituted without touching the necessary majorities.

"We are going to ask the groups that this commission can be set up in a normal way with the mechanisms now in force," said

, spokesman for the PSOE.

"That with the current situation it can be started."

But even the way of changing the majorities is not ruled out, in order to grant a quick gesture to the nationalists.

"We are going to unblock this commission," said Minister Félix Bolaños, in an interview on

.

The head of the Presidency has recalled that the composition of the official secrets committee "is not in the Chamber's regulations" and that, therefore, it is not necessary to modify the Chamber's regulations to constitute the commission and, therefore, "Different formulas are being considered."

Juan Bravo, economic vice president of the PP.Tarek

PP, against modifying the majorities

The right-wing formations remain firm in their intention that nationalist formations such as ERC and Bildu not be present in that commission.

The PP demands, in the first place, "a clear explanation" about whether

was used legally or not.

And, secondly, it is committed to vetoing the presence of ERC and Bildu in the commission.

"It does not seem logical to us that parties that are against the State know the secrets of that State," said

, the PP's Deputy Secretary of Economy, at a press conference.

"That Bildu is in the Official Secrets Commission when he is least surprised," he added.

In 2004, Bravo has assured, it was agreed, at the initiative of the PSOE, "that a three-fifths majority support the participation of the parties" in that commission, so that PP and Vox could prevent it (they add up to 141 seats, just one more than minimum required to block).

"Bildu will enter if he gets 210 votes", the 'popular' leader has settled.

What the PP wants is for the Executive to portray itself in its support and show whether it prefers to agree on state affairs with Feijóo or with the independentistas.

"If the PSOE wants Bildu to enter, call us and we will listen", they add in Genoa, where they recognize that in reality their veto capacity is scarce, since the parties of the government coalition can change the conditions of access to this commission "without the PP".

"This is not blocked, if Batet proposes it tomorrow and they vote for it", the blocking minority could be changed without further ado, they admit.

Inés Arrimadas and Edmundo Bal, in Congress.BERNARDO DÍAZ

Arrimadas: "Putting them in is suicidal"

For its part, Ciudadanos is also going to maintain a firm position to prevent the independence parties from entering the official secrets commission of Congress, although their votes only serve to make the veto of the ERC, Junts or EH Bildu bigger.

Inés Arrimadas has warned that it is "suicidal", "ridiculous" and "absurd" to make room in that space for parties "whose sole objective is to destroy and break" the State.

That is why she has lamented the promises made by Bolaños to ERC, because they are ideas that "nobody comes up with."

In this sense, the leader of Ciudadanos has harshly attacked the Government for its attitude in this whole matter of alleged espionage.

"Sánchez sends Bolaños as a runner to kneel before separatism" and what is "worse", she has said, "to drag the name of Spain to the ground."

"We are not going to bow our heads or apologize," she warned, because the CNI "works under a legal umbrella and judicial authorization."

For Arrimadas, what is seen in this matter is that the government "depends so much on the votes" of separatism that it is "capable of questioning the public servants of the CNI" to "stay in Moncloa."

Jorge Buxadé, spokesperson for Vox.EM

Vox denounces espionage to students

From Vox, the position is clear:

to the presence of independentistas in the Parliament commission that analyzes the so-called

.

And this is how its spokesman,

, has been blunt, who has precisely asked the independentistas to give explanations for the "espionage" in schools to children who do not speak Catalan.

The national spokesman has confirmed that Vox will oppose the entry of pro-independence formations into the Congressional commission that controls the National Intelligence Center (CNI) and accesses secret information.

"I hope that Bolaños - in reference to the minister's visit to Catalonia and his meeting with the Government - will tell you about when they dissolve and end the espionage of children in schools."

Buxadé denounced the survey that the Catalan Government is carrying out with children to find out the use of Catalan.

In his opinion, that "is espionage" that should concern the Executive because it represents a "very serious violation of rights and freedoms" of "hundreds of thousands of students."

Expressly asked if the Government should give explanations about the use of Pegasus and similar devices for political espionage, as the independence supporters demand, he stressed that the Executive must be accountable for "many things", including why it does not "guarantee the right to freedom of education in Catalonia".

"The traitors to Spain who do not accept the

, cannot be", in reference to the commission of official secrets.

Buxadé has pointed out that an "essential" body for any State such as the espionage services must be "under legal scrutiny and control."

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