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Updated Saturday, February 3, 2024-12:55

  • Economy The Government will approve this Tuesday the increase in the minimum wage to 1,134 euros despite the frontal rejection of businessmen

The President of the

Government

, Pedro Sánchez, tries to dispel doubts about the stability of the legislature after Junts slammed the door on the amnesty law. To this end, he assured this Saturday that "1,265 days remain" in his mandate despite "the noise and din" of the opposition.

This is how the head of the Executive expressed himself during the event held by the socialists in

Orense

as part of the first weekend of the Galician campaign. A rally in which he accompanied the PSOE candidate for the

Xunta

,

José Ramón Gómez Besteiro

, who asserted that in these elections the left "is going to remove the mask" from

Alfonso Rueda

and the Popular Party. The president took advantage of the meeting to announce that the

Council of Ministers

will approve on Tuesday the increase in the

SMI

to 1,134 euros per month

The Galician campaign has started with a strong influence from national politics, marked in recent months by the amnesty that the independence movement demands from Sánchez in exchange for his support in the

Congress of Deputies

. A support that in recent days was left up in the air after Junts decided to overthrow the amnesty law in the Lower House in order to increase pressure on the PSOE and extend protection to those independentists who may end up being investigated for terrorism or high treason.

After the first warning from Junts, which indicated that the PSOE was not complying with the investiture pact, the socialists have been taking steps in recent days with the aim of ironing out differences. The President of the Government himself considered on Thursday from

Brussels

that "all pro-independence supporters are going to be amnestied because they are not terrorists" and, as this newspaper has been reporting, in

La Moncloa

they believe that the relationship with the separatist formations can be redirected in the short term.

This Saturday Sánchez took the next step by ruling out that the legislature is up in the air. "We have 1,260 days left until the end of the legislature," he stated. A time that is going to be "very short" for the government coalition, given the important social agenda that it plans to promote, while for

Alberto Núñez Feijóo

and

Santiago Abascal

, he said, it is going to be "very long."

An opposition that in the eyes of the president has become desperate in the little more than two months that the PSOE and Sumar are in La Moncloa as part of this mandate. Sánchez, in fact, contrasted the "temperance" that the Government demonstrates in each negotiation with all the parties on which it depends in Congress with the "laziness" with which the PP and Vox have attacked the Executive since 23-

J

.

Furthermore, Sánchez reproached Feijóo for not respecting "the 100 days of grace" that governments are usually allowed to analyze their start to the legislature and criticize any measure from the first minute of the mandate. A roadmap that the president praised by highlighting the approval of the parity law, the development of a plan to protect children from pornography or the imminent increase in the SMI, but of which he made no mention. the amnesty and the rest of the transfers to groups such as ERC, Junts or EH Bildu.

"I vindicate not only the Government's action, but I reaffirm that Spain is going in the right direction: more employment, more rights and more coexistence than ever," he said to highlight that his Executive is achieving normalization of relations with

Catalonia

, in contrast to the previous Government of

Mariano Rajoy

.