Government and ERC show rapprochement before the Sánchez-Aragonès meeting

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“fantastic week“. The Government closed this Thursday almost three days of wine and roses in Congress. The three days of the debate on the state of the nation, with which Pedro Sánchez intended to regain momentum after weeks of wear and tear, accentuated by the disaster of the Andalusian elections. The president’s “brilliant” speech on the first day was followed by the recomposition of the majority of the investiture. And it culminated, this Thursday, with the victory in key votes: the socialists carried out its 15 motions for resolutions (that is, all of them), and, more importantly, they saw all the laws scheduled for this week prosper. Precisely the last session showed that the Executive and ERC rapprochement is already a fact. The Republicans helped the bipartisan, via abstention or vote in favor, on multiple occasions, from the memory law to the anti-crisis decree or the express reform that will speed up the renewal of the Constitutional Court. Signs more than significant just a few hours before the head of the Executive and the ‘president’ of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, meet in Moncloa.

In the environment of Sánchez they exhibited total satisfaction with the culmination of a week that, objectively, has strengthened the government. Look where you look. “We have broken the road map of the PP, we have truncated their plans“, they pointed out with undisguised euphoria, supporting their judgment that the debate has served to mark a clear and crucial “turning point”, from which to move forward, change the political climate favorable to the PP and reach the end of the legislature. With all the precautions, yes, due to economic uncertainty. These three days allowed Sánchez to recover the initiative with far-reaching star measures (taxes on banks and electricity companies or the 100% bonus on train tickets de Cercanías y media Distancia), unite his coalition —after innumerable clashes and setbacks— and reconcile with his partners, necessary harmony in the face of the 2023 Budgets, which will reach the Lower House at the turn of summer.

The 15 socialist resolution proposals are approved. And of them, ten are backed by ERC, and in another three the republican formation abstained

The tension that the Pegasus case aroused between ERC and the Government already seems mitigated. Executive and Generalitat already redirected their relations last Friday in Barcelona, ​​in a meeting between the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, and the ‘consellera’ Laura Vilagrà. But the visualization of that approximation came sharply this week. The Republican spokesman, Gabriel Rufián, applauded the president’s turn to the left and did not even refer to ‘Catalangate’ in his speech on Tuesday, they recalled in Moncloa. And his group backed the Executive time after time this Thursday. The 15 resolution proposals of the PSOE were approvedand of them, ten had the vote in favor of ERCand in three others they abstained.

I also go from the PP to abstention

In addition, ERC abstained in the ruling on the bill on democratic memory, a symbolic and flagship provision of the coalition, which it first rejected outright (it had also voted no on the first law on historical memory, the one promoted by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in 2007). The independence formation voted in favor of the socialist bill of reform of the Organic law of judicial power (which will allow the Constitutional to be renewed, theoretically, in September), the stabilization of toilets and the second package of anti-crisis measures. This point was nothing incidental.

In Moncloa they do not expect the date for the dialogue table to come out, because it remains to “work on it beforehand”, but they insist that the meeting is “on firm ground”;

CKD rejection in April, in the midst of the Pegasus crisis, the first decree in response to the war in Ukraine. The text, in fact, came out for the minimum thanks to the support of Bildu. Now the government was able to put together a much looser majority: the republicans evolved to yes (although they kept their position until the vote) and the PP went from no to abstention (as Ciudadanos did). The second shock plan went ahead 186 yeses (PSOE, United We Can, ERC, PNV, Bildu, PDECat, Más País, Compromís, Canarian Coalition, Teruel Exists and PRC), 51 noes (Vox) and 108 abstentions (PP, Ciudadanos, Junts, BNG, CUP, Foro Asturias and the former of Cs and UPN).

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This Friday’s meeting between Sánchez and Aragonès is therefore preceded by calm, by the image of “stability and the reunion with ERC”. From Moncloa they do not expect the date for the dialogue table to come out, because it remains “work it previously” among the technical teams, but insist that the meeting steps “on solid ground & rdquor;, on an evident détente with the Govern. So the sole office of the two presidents, they believe in the Executive, is already good news. The photo, in this case, is the message, and it will work as the closure of a week that the president’s collaborators describe as a total success. They added, by the way, another element: the 450 million announced by the Minister of Transport, Raquel Sánchez, in direct aid to truck drivers.

“The debate gives us a deep horizon and also the PSOE is going to mobilize from September ahead of the May elections”, assure the president’s collaborators

“What has happened gives us depth horizon and it allows us to walk the year and a half that remains of the legislature. And in addition, the PSOE is going to move from September, when the machinery for the regional and municipal elections in May is turned on”, the same sources sentence. In politics, however, times are increasingly perishable, and the uncertainty of The war in Ukraine can suffocate any forecast, but the Government prefers to stay with a week that has exceeded forecasts and that has breathed energy and optimism into a party with very low morale and that believed that it could fall down a dangerous slope that would would remove from power.



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