• 28-M Podemos presents its main pre-campaign act with a defense of its work against the ministers who "put themselves in profile"
  • Coalition The Government arrives broken by the 'yes is yes' to the 28-M campaign

The minority partner of the Government, Unidas Podemos, already poses a frontal clash with the older brother of the Executive, the PSOE. Neither their positions nor their proposals in the short and medium term are in tune. On the contrary, the differences are unavoidable and leave little room for understanding, a terrain that narrows as the appointment with the polls approaches.

The reform of the yes law is proposed by the PSOE to finally stop the sentence reductions and the releases of sex offenders is the main battlefield in which socialists and purples face, but it is by no means the only one.

The initiative registered yesterday by UP so that the transition from a variable-rate mortgage to a fixed-rate mortgage can be carried out without restrictions and with all the costs borne by the bank; the blocking of the Housing Law and the intervention of the rental market; the list of participants in the reborn Kitchen commission; the policy in relation to Morocco and even the trip to Spain of King Emeritus Juan Carlos I are fertile ground for disagreement.

Everything is a source of friction between the two partners of the Government committed, mainly from the purple side, to mark distances already emerging as an actor of the opposition to the PSOE on the left flank, and determined in passing to launch warning messages to Yolanda Díaz for the approach, increasingly clear that they appreciate in her, to the postulates and policies of Pedro Sánchez.

In Congress, the purple formation takes advantage of its preferential position in the parliamentary group to speak on behalf of the political space as if there were no nuances with Díaz's proposals.

Reform of the 'only yes is yes' law

In this sense, from Podemos, for example, it is taken for granted that the second vice president will remain faithful to the position of the Ministry of Equality in relation to the law of only yes is yes and will vote again against the reform proposed by the Socialists on the 20th in the plenary session of Congress. A reform that the PSOE is not willing to negotiate and for which it only expects adhesions, as explained by the general secretary of the group, Isaura Leal. From UP yesterday openly accused the Socialists of having decided to return "to the Penal Code of the Manada, hand in hand with the PP and against the main feminist advance of the legislature."

There is therefore no possibility that PSOE and UP agree on changes to rectify the law. The only way for correction is in the PSOE-PP sum. Until Tuesday, the Socialists will be able to negotiate with the popular to touch up the assumptions of aggression involving minors.

There is also clear reluctance between the two partners regarding the purple proposal to create a "direct gateway" for the change from variable to fixed mortgages. The most that the PSOE reaches is to promise that they will study it although they specify that the possibility of change is already contemplated in the code of good practices accepted by banks. From Podemos, Javier Sánchez Serna, has already recalled that the PSOE rejected the measure in September.

Likewise, the purples pointed out yesterday the "incomprehensible turns" of the policy that Sánchez has deployed with Morocco and denounced the "narrow vision" and the "obstruction" of the Socialists to the appearances of senior officials of the PP, mainly former president Mariano Rajoy, in the reborn commission of inquiry into the Kitchen case.

To this they add, to warm up the electoral atmosphere, their rejection of the visit that the King emeritus will make to Spain at the end of next week. From the PSOE the "respect" for the decisions of the members of the Royal Family is proclaimed while in Podemos the trip is labeled as "democratic indecency" and it is stressed that if something like this is possible it is because "PP and PSOE have blocked on 15 occasions the creation of a commission of inquiry into the business and corruption of the emeritus Bourbon ".

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