24 hours in which Moncloa feared that the Government would "stay in shock"

• Congress The Government registers the appearance of the director of the CNI so that she can give explanations as soon as possible for Pegasus

• War in Ukraine The Government saves the decree of war measures by only four votes and thanks to EH Bildu

Thursday.

2:45 p.m.

The applause continues in Congress.

More than one socialist deputy stares blankly at the monitor with the votes, as an antidote to disbelief.

Félix Bolaños, Minister of the Presidency, does not, who looks towards the PSOE bloc and towards Pedro Sánchez.

He is one of the few, along with the socialist spokesman,

, who knew since Wednesday night that the economic decree to alleviate the consequences of the war had the necessary votes.

After 24 frenetic hours of meetings, calls, messages between Wednesday and Thursday, now yes, many breathe a sigh of relief because in

there was fear that the decree would not come out and that the Government would "stay in shock."

It was feared that a bump would put the legislature in check.

“We cannot relax”, was still repeated within the Government shortly before the vote.

On Wednesday in the Government the fear spread, the alarms went off.

The position of ERC and the refusal of formations such as Ciudadanos to vote in favor of the government's measures caused Bolaños to improvise a round of negotiations in Congress itself, when the government's control session was being held.

The rush of this round of negotiation in extremis was such that the parties' own spokesmen crossed paths, some surprised, on the way to the Executive offices in Congress.

The responses of the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, to the independence supporters in the session on account of espionage angers them and alters the Government's intention to defuse.

The contacts do not prosper.

Hours go by and La Moncloa continues without leaving the numbers.

The criticality of the situation is evidenced by the fact that Sánchez cancels his trip to Moldova and Poland, scheduled for Thursday and Friday, in the early afternoon.

The calls intensify.

The negotiations are to several bands.

Bolaños, Gómez and also the minister María Jesús Montero intervene, who is in charge of speaking with the PP spokesman,

.

The Government says not to close to pacts with the

, but does not open the way for negotiation with them.

Dialogue is given air by maintaining an alternative path in case of total failure with its partners.

But there is no conviction to definitively break the governability bloc.

Bildu's flank rushes, discarding the ERC option.

During the evening, after the approval that comes from the

,

communicates to Gómez that Bildu will vote in favor.

He moves to La Moncloa.

Government and PSOE are convinced that the vote is out.

The five nationalist votes are

, but the memory of the chaotic approval of the labor reform still weighs heavily.

That is why the decision is to try to tie up more supports.

Margin is sought, to reach the majority of 176 votes, to prevent an error in the vote from ruining it.

Conversations then began with groups such as Teruel Exists and the BNG.

As the PP already did, the groups ask that the royal decree law be processed as a bill.

That and not curtailing just in case the PP route leads the Government to the edge of 9:00 p.m. on Wednesday its decision to process the royal decree law as a bill to allow contributions from parliamentary groups.

But the negotiations continue.

There are calls and messages until late at night.

Spokesman Gómez's cell phone rings until one in the morning.

Just five hours of sleep.

Contacts are resumed around 6:30 am on Thursday.

Already in Congress, at 08:45 am the Socialists meet with the BNG and at 08:55 am with Teruel Exists.

Despite the fact that the official version is that there are no considerations for the support, with the groups there is talk of issues to be addressed in the parliamentary process.

With the Galician nationalists, the PSOE is committed to recovering public participation in wind power processes and with the citizen platform to modify the urgent environmental evaluation procedure in the processing of renewable energy projects.

This milestone has been passed, but in the Government and in the PSOE it is assumed that they live through a legislature from "law to law" and that the year and a half that Sánchez intends to remain until the elections will be hard, with voting at the limit.

Of course, in La Moncloa it is emphasized that despite the difficulties "the Government remains and takes its initiatives while the regional governments of the right have anticipated elections."

Conforms to The Trust Project criteria

Know more

• PSOE

• PP

• CKD

• Bildu

• Margaret Oaks

• Teruel exists

• BNG

• Poland

• Maria Jesus Montero

• citizens

• Pedro Sanchez