Government Ione Belarra accuses the PSOE of delaying its Family Law with "incomprehensible" arguments
Congress The PSOE will keep the amendments to the Trans Law "alive" after failing to reach an agreement with United We Can
The
coalition government
does not give itself a truce not even to savor the success of approving the Budgets.
The countdown in which the legislature has entered plus the appearance on the horizon of the
regional and municipal elections
in May have PSOE and Unidas Podemos in a row, wanting to mark their territory like never before to assert themselves.
So if the coalition's operating tonic has been that of a permanent pulse, it is not surprising that at this point the discrepancies multiply and are hardly concealed, because both forces have already activated their pre-campaign mode and operate under the logic electoral.
That is causing two things.
That with the proximity of the elections the PSOE wants to tread carefully in all the matters it handles, and even more so if they come from United We Can after the blows that the application of the law of
only yes is yes
is causing .
And also that the
purple
ones don't shut up.
They air the discrepancies and openly accuse the majority partner of boycotting the projects that bear their seal to justify the slowdown in the laws where their star claims are concentrated and those most demanded by their voters.
The fronts accumulate, the internal anger too.
The government coalition has up to seven open disputes for modifying regulations already approved by the
Council of Ministers
or for championing, influencing, capitalizing, leaving the stamp on others that are being promoted or are pending.
The "noise" that Pedro Sánchez and the territorial leaders of the PSOE complain about is deafening these days.
It happens with the
Trans
,
Trafficking
,
Animal Welfare
,
Families
,
Housing
,
gag
laws -officially called Citizen Security- and even with
the pension reform
.
"Electoral Calculation"
Unidas Podemos denounces that Moncloa “blocks” its laws with “incomprehensible” arguments and warns that they are producing “worrying signs” that there is an “electoral calculation” behind it.
From the presidential complex they try to lower decibels, minimize the anger of the purples and do not consider it necessary to address with their partners the confrontations, already public, within the Government.
«The coalition is in permanent contact.
We do not understand that anything additional is necessary at a special moment at the end of the year", is the message from La Moncloa.
However, within the coalition there are those who consider that the approval of what will be the last Budgets of the legislature, which allow Sánchez to exhaust it, represents a
turning point
, where the obligations, the predisposition or the considerations already are not as firm or necessary as before.
The truth is that the
waterways
are clear in the coalition.
The sources consulted consider that there is no danger, to this day, of the ship sinking, but they do believe that these frictions could be more constant and intense from now on.
The fact of already being practically immersed in the pre-campaign, added to the internal war in United We Can, draw a difficult panorama to reach a consensus, to agree.
"The feeling is that the fronts are multiplying," government sources acknowledge and lament.
"The action of this Government can be assessed by the debates when the laws conclude or by the previous debates, the Spanish value the end of each agreement of this Government and its action," said Isabel Rodríguez, spokesperson for the Executive, yesterday.
In the PSOE, it bothers us that Unidas Podemos denounces blockades or boycotts and overshadows the initiatives that are being promoted, the action of the Government.
Moncloa wanted these days to launch an optimistic economic message for
Christmas
, to instill optimism despite the economic forecasts that speak of a slowdown, giving as an example the reduction in inflation or the increase in pensions.
But that speech is swallowed up by the clashes, which angers the socialist sector of the Government.
Legal security
Faced with the complaints of United We Can, in the PSOE they take refuge in the pretext of the "parliamentary procedure" to justify that they want to amend laws that they themselves endorsed in the Council of Ministers and also argue "legal certainty".
In other words, the Socialists state that they are the majority force in the Government and those with the most experience in Government and with the key ministries, and, therefore, they are the ones who must protect and supervise that everything that comes out of the Council of Ministers it is valid, it is legally secure.
Despite the fact that examples such as the law of
only yes is yes
or the Trans Law show that this is not always the case.
The PSOE believes that the right is going to resort to all the ideological laws of the coalition and that fear serves as a pretext to, for example, stop at the last minute that the Family Law went to the Council of Ministers yesterday or to amend the Trans Law.
With both standards United We Can make
casus belli
.
They are two of the star laws of the ministers and leaders of Podemos and, in full internal duel in the space between Irene Montero-Ione Belarra against Yolanda Díaz, the
purples
do not want to give in the least to the PSOE.
Hence the defiant tone with the Trans Law in the face of any hint that the socialists make changes to lower gender
self-determination
.
That battle intensifies as of today and the PSOE continues to warn that it will fight to approve its amendment.
More anger guaranteed.
Two other cases from yesterday, with the Family Law, Minister Belarra came out to blame her partner for the brake.
And hours later, Podemos aired another disagreement: a failed meeting with the PSOE to withdraw its amendment on hunting dogs to the Animal Welfare Law.
More wood.
TRAFFICKING LAW
The last pulse between ministries
The
Council of Ministers
saw for the first time yesterday the preliminary draft of the comprehensive law against trafficking after several weeks of debate between the
Ministries of Justice and Equality
.
In fact, the discrepancies were still a fact on Monday, when Irene Montero's department described the last proposal sent by Pilar Llop's team as "insufficient".
However, since Pedro Sánchez had already announced that this matter was going to be present at the cabinet meeting and that there is still a second round in which changes and adjustments can still be proposed, the disputed ones were postponed for later.
Hence, Llop was open to future changes in the presentation of the law at a press conference.
Irene Montero gave a low profile to her assessment of the law, waiting for the pending issues to be resolved, and only released a
message from the account of the Ministry of Equality.
For her part, Llop emphasized that the law will mean "a before and after in the protection of human rights."
Equality criticized on Monday that the law does not give residence and work permits to immigrants who are in an irregular situation.
ABORTION LAW
Of the few that are saved from the dispute
While the noise shakes most government regulations, the new abortion law can boast of having had a placid parliamentary process due to the harmony between the PSOE and United We Can.
Yesterday the
Congressional Equality Commission
practically closed the law and will take it to plenary session for final approval after concluding the work with a broad consensus in the investiture bloc and the rejection of PP, Vox and Ciudadanos.
The norm promoted by the
Ministry of Equality
of Irene Montero will give more facilities to minors to terminate the pregnancy.
First of all, it will allow 16 and 17 year old girls to have an abortion without having to have their parents' permission.
Thus, it repeals the only change that the PP introduced in 2015 and returns to leave things as they were in the 2010 socialist law. There is no change in terms of the deadlines that were introduced with
Zapatero
(free abortion until week 22 of gestation).
Secondly, an amendment by Unidas Podemos and PSOE will give an exit to those under 16 years of age who need parental permission but they do not give it to them.
When this conflict occurs, a judicial defender will be appointed to resolve the case and it will be resolved urgently.
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