One of the serious problems in Spain is the total inability to agree between the two major parties, which generates great tension and takes politics to ruinous extremes. In addition, it impedes institutional stability, as evidenced by the fact that the General Council of the Judiciary has not been able to renew itself more than two years after what the Constitution mandates.
The Government and the opposition are not here to help each other, but neither should they want to liquidate each other. Even in the highly polarized United States, an important Biden law, infrastructure, has prospered thanks to the negotiated vote of a handful of Republican senators.
In our climate of extreme tension, the pact of the labour reform between Government, employers and unions allows a certain hope. Is it maintained after its validation in Congress in a very strange vote? Less. But there have been pacts in which a healthy pragmatism.
The labor reform is not optimal for anyone, but perhaps therein lies its virtue. It has been signed by the bosses because it believes that social agreements are positive and that its price is acceptable. And for the unions, who have known how to forget the demagogic “repeal & rdquor; that the PSOE and Podemos promised, but in return they achieve part of their demands. And the agreement with the social partners has ironed out the great differences between the two government partners. Pedro Sanchez and even Yolanda Diaz -which has considerably more merit- have acted aware that in the European Union, which will invest 140,000 million in Spain, 11.6% of last year’s GDP, one cannot -and must not- govern by putting businessmen in face the wall Investments no longer have borders.
And parliamentary validation has shown that ideological blocs are not everything. Much of the left has been in favor to support both the pact and the government. But also a minority part of the center-right (Cs, Canarian Coalition, PDECat and UPN) who have prioritized the agreement with the economic right. On the contrary, the bulk of the political right (PP and Vox) and part of the usual allies of the Government (PNV, ERC and Bildu) have been against.
That the support bloc for the Government is weak was already known and has been demonstrated again. Vote Budgets, but it lacks coherence. That the PP has voted against despite the fact that Rajoy’s former Labor Minister – the author of the reform that was wanted to “repeal” – has advised Garamendi that he signed it indicates that in Married Harassment of the Government prevails over its image as ruler.
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So far everything could be expected. And with these oxen we have to plow. But in the end the vote has been won by a series of errors that show that in Spain -despite government propaganda- there is more volatility than stability. The ‘yes’ has only come out by one vote (175 to 174) because a deputy from the PP has made a mistake and has thus compensated that the two of the Union of the Navarrese Peoplecontravening the order of their party, they have done it against.
Sánchez’s left-wing majority lacks coherence and this Thursday’s cross-section has lacked two votes and has been saved by an error. In Spain, all non-bloc agreements cost too much. And furthermore, this pragmatic agreement -which without being a panacea is positive- has only been able to come out after great efforts and two final errors that will make a lot of noise. The roadmap -if there is one- is too rough. The Government has validated the labor reform, but the political climate is no better today than it was yesterday.