• Congreso Sánchez yields to the PNV and allows regional teams to compete abroad in sports with "historical and social roots"

The

Congress of Deputies will give the

green light

this Thursday

to the third

Sports Law

of our democracy with much less consensus than expected.

The entire opposition will not support the new norm after the PSOE gave in at the last minute of the amendment phase to "the delusions of its partners", in reference to the point agreed on the horn between the Socialists and the PNV that will make it easier for the regional teams can compete against Spain in modalities such as Basque pelota or surfing.

This concession was one of the demands of the Basque nationalists to Pedro Sánchez at the end of 2019 and has become the element of discord that has made it impossible for the future Sports Law to leave Congress as a "State law".

In fact, the Popular Party directly accuses the Executive of "crushing the legislative power" with its pact with the PNV after the processing of the norm has enjoyed good health in the previous phases of parliamentary work.

"Everything was going great," said the popular

deputy

Javier Merino

, who highlighted the climate of harmony among all the spokesmen for the

Culture and Sports Commission

until the concession of the PSOE to the nationalists "broke parliamentary harmony."

"Today should be a historic day in Spanish sport," he lamented, but the lack of consensus will cloud the vote on the law, scheduled for the last minute of this Thursday, at the end of the plenary session.

From the PP, they even accuse the Socialists of "creating a greater conflict to cover up the debate of the Basque teams" in the last session of the commission, in reference to the controversy that arose around the legal security of football clubs and that he threatened to unleash a strike in LaLiga due to the rejection of the new text without amendments.

This is the reason why in the PP they defend the withdrawal of their amendments last week, which aggravated the open crisis with practically all first and second division clubs.

"We already know what sanchismo is," they justify in the PP.

However, from Citizens the "surprising" gesture of the popular ones has also been criticized, which, in block with the PSOE, "left many middle-class soccer clubs hanging from the brush."

"The Government did not choose to negotiate with Citizens, but with the usual ones", denounced the

orange deputy

Guillermo Díaz

, who has highlighted that the Sánchez Government "will once again prioritize those who want to stop being Spanish" instead of achieving the House majority support for a law that "has been twisted" in the discount.

This is the dynamic of the Government throughout the legislature, they remember in the ranks of Vox.

Those of

Santiago Abascal

believe that Sánchez has once again given in to "the delusions of his partners in order to stay in the chair", as has happened in so many other parliamentary negotiations, according to deputy

José Ramírez

.

Of course, Ramírez has reproached not only the left-wing bench, but also the rest of the opposition parties, for not having supported the "common sense" amendment presented by Vox that requested that the male and female competitions be differentiated exclusively by sex biological.

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