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La Moncloa learned long ago to live with the bruises that a coalition entails.

The tensions or clashes with the ministers of United We Can consume less and less time and energy in the socialist sector.

But what Pedro Sánchez does not like or is willing to consent to is that these bruises occur between his ministers, friendly fire between socialists, as has happened in recent days regarding the

The whole issue of espionage and the response of the separatists and the government itself to it has dealt a heavy blow to the legislature, which is hanging more and more from a wire.

However, the head of the Executive is determined to complete his mandate until the end of 2023. He assumes the problems that may arise with United We Can and those that successively occur with the partners, but he does not want there to be a clash between his ministers who do even more the purpose of not having to call early elections is unfeasible.

In the presidential complex they do not like that the discrepancies or the tensions between the ministers of the PSOE are aired in the public scene.

They understand that this is a subsistence and leading strategy of United We Can, but not theirs.

Hence, this week, after the clash between the head of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, and the Head of Defense, Margarita Robles, became evident over who is responsible for the security of the telephones of the members of the Council of Ministers -and in particular that of Pedro Sánchez-, the transferred order was that of showing «unity», «teamwork» and «shared responsibility».

This was done in unison by Bolaños and Robles, two people very close to the president and valued by him.

"Lower decibels" is what Sánchez has asked for.

Already in the extensive remodeling of the Government that he carried out last summer, he showed that the ministers or other positions that maintain poorly concealed conflicts have many options to fall.

The relationship between the Moncloa chief of staff, Iván Redondo, with the then first vice president, Carmen Calvo

and with the Minister of Transport and Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, José Luis Ábalos, was clearly improvable.

He limited himself to what was strictly professional and hid struggles for quotas of power.

All three left the Government.

Therefore, an electoral advance is not in Sánchez's scenario today.

Not even granting the independence supporters the head of Margarita Robles, who has become for the partners the black beast of the PSOE to defeat and whose resignation has been demanded last week by United We Can for being the alleged person in charge of espionage on Pere Aragonès and 17 other separatists.

continuous discrepancies

There are also no immediate possibilities of a break with United We Can.

The President of the Government has the commitment of Yolanda Díaz, leader of the

bloc in the Executive, that there will be no rupture and her five ministers will continue in their positions - herself, Ione Belarra, Irene Montero, Alberto Garzón and Joan Subirats- .

This despite the continuous discrepancies -in economic matters, in Ukraine, in the Sahara, in espionage...- and although in Podemos the debate on the break with Sánchez has been on the table at times.

"Dialogue, negotiation and agreement" are the pillars on which La Moncloa wants to lean to try to reach the end of 2023. The strategy is to convey that, despite the challenges experienced in the legislature - the pandemic, the

storm , the eruption of the La Palma volcano, the war in Ukraine...- there is stability.

"It is very important that Spain has regained stability, with elections every four years and that each year we have Budgets," they have repeated on more than one occasion from La Moncloa.

That is why the image of government heavyweights such as Félix Bolaños and Margarita Robles starring in a clash was neither liked nor wanted.

It broke that image of stability of the PSOE and complicated an already difficult scenario, with the nationalist partners putting the legislature in check, not guaranteeing their votes in Congress, which are precisely necessary to achieve that parliamentary stability.

The aim is to redirect the relationship with CKD.

Although the Republicans consummated their threat and stopped giving structural support to the Government in Congress, from La Moncloa they argue that on different occasions they have already been able to put together alternative majorities, not without suffering and unknowns, yes.

Therefore, they explain, it has been shown that the Republicans can lose their role as determinants.

«The legislature for the Government is measured in terms of contribution to the country, security and tranquility for citizens.

We have managed very hard moments and we have done it with determination.

We want to complete this work because the Spaniards deserve it”, recently stated the Government spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez.

Sánchez himself, on Friday in

and before Aragonès, spoke of the "horizon of the legislature" and that the current "turbulence" will be overcome.

Therefore, today the songs of electoral advance, to which Alberto Núñez Feijóo has also joined, are ignored.

"Whoever believes that the pre-campaign has begun, is seen to be long," they warn from La Moncloa, where they handle demographic data that would already place the PP leader at the level of Sánchez in electoral support.

Nor is the current economic crisis seen as a window of opportunity.

The next elections in Andalusia are a litmus test for the PSOE, to verify the attrition and what support the government management has in

It is a key thermometer for socialists.

In the party they warn that proof that the brand is deteriorating is that Ximo Puig, one of the main barons, has refused to advance elections despite the fact that many saw it as a way to try to break the winning trend of the PP in

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