Politics Internal war in United Podemos for the fiasco of the gag law: Iglesias blames the PSOE while IU and common to ERC and Bildu
The legislature has entered discount time despite the president's intention to rush to the last drop.
To the continuous scuffles between the two partners of the Council of Ministers are now added the clashes between the
Government
and the forces that led to the investiture of Sánchez and that have served as a prop in Congress for the Executive's initiatives.
Added to the clash over the reform of the only yes is yes law is the decision of ERC and Bildu to knock down with their votes the reform of the Citizen Security law, known as the Gag Law, promoted by the Socialists and, in addition, to defend in the plenary session of Congress a bill to review in depth the labor reform championed by Yolanda Díaz in order to recover rights that workers had before the government stage of Mariano Rajoy.
Yesterday, ERC and Bildu, two priority allies of the Executive, put an end to the reform of the
Gag Law
, because they understood that it did not meet the minimum requirements for its repeal, a commitment guaranteed by the Government and included in the coalition pact between the PSOE and United We Can.
Both the Catalan independence republicans and the
nationalists
considered that the proposal sponsored by the PNV with the endorsement of the Government remained a mere revision of the
Citizen Security Law
approved under the mandate of Mariano Rajoy.
The points of conflict that have definitively dynamited the reform of the law were four: the use of rubber bullets as part of the riot gear, the sanctions imposed for disrespect to the police, the sanctions for disobedience to the authority of the
Corps and Security Forces
and the forced returns of immigrants such as those that occurred at the fence in
Melilla
.
Finally, the agreement between
ERC
and
Bildu
on the one hand and the Government on the other was not possible and the reform of the
Gag Law
decayed.
The disaster also caused a schism within the junior partner of the Executive, United We Can, divided between those who blame the
PSOE
for the fiasco and those who pointed to
ERC
and
Bildu
.
Thus, from
Podemos
all the responsibility was placed on the shoulders of the socialists, thus aligning itself with Catalan and
nationalist
republicans , while from Izquierda Unida and los
Comunes
, Yolanda Díaz's main supporters within that political space, accused of the problem to the pro-independence parties, reproaching them for their "electoralism".
The internal clash became evident with the confrontation between the former leader of
Podemos
, Pablo Iglesias, and
Enrique Santiago
, main negotiator for Unidas Podemos in the attempt to repeal the
Gag Law.
Iglesias published an article in CTXT praising the position of ERC and Bildu in favor of prohibiting the use of rubber balls: «What do you want me to tell you!
ERC
,
Bildu
and
Podemos
are absolutely right
in demanding that the repeal of the
Gag Law
, which the
PSOE
refuses to do, end once and for all with rubber bullets in Spain.
Santiago
's response
, after this disavowal of his work, came via tweet: "Unidas Podemos has worked to eliminate them [the rubber balls], but not achieving it still does not justify 4 more years of Gag", he sentenced criticizing the ERC decision and Bildu to knock down the reform of the law.
The spokesman for Unidas Podemos, Pablo Echenique, unloaded for his part on the
PSOE
all the blame because, he said, "he did not want to make a last effort" to tie up the votes of the investiture allies in response to their requests.
For
Echenique
, the disaster of this reform is a "terrible failure of the legislature" and "there is only one person responsible", the
PSOE
.
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