In the last legislature, it was a rare week in which the PSOE and Unidas Podemos did not clash. And in each of those battles, socialists and purples appealed, as if it were a sacred text, to the ‘Progressive Coalition Agreement’ signed by Pedro Sanchez and Pablo Iglesias. Those 50 pages They served as ammunition for each to argue their position. Something that did not make it easier to resolve the conflicts that for three years have plagued the coalition in the approval of laws. Sánchez and, in this case, Yolanda Diaz They seem to have learned something from past experience and in the pact they closed this Tuesday they have resolved some of the major clashes of the legislature.
At the beginning of 2020, when the Executive started, they wanted to replace the Citizen Security Law, the so-called ‘Gag’ law, for another rule that would see “the light as soon as possible.” The standard approved by the Government of Mariano Rajoy is still valid today. In March of this year, with an agreement to reform a large part of the text, ERC and Bildu opposed it because the use of rubber balls was not regulated. Podemos agreed with them and attacked the PSOE.
Now, Sánchez and Díaz have agreed to limit this reform to the understandings that were reached ago seven months, reform the aspects related to the “right of assembly and demonstration, identification and body search, the use of preventive and dissuasive techniques, as well as the identification of agents.” The leader of Sumar thus renounces the advances that the purples demanded.
Tourist rentals
In what was one of the battles of the legislature, the Housing law, Unidas Podemos demanded, during the parliamentary process, that the use of tourist rentals be regulated. The PSOE flatly refused and the rule ended up going forward, after three years of tug-of-war, without mentioning this type of rental. Now, the socialists have accepted the agreement review “the regulation of tourist accommodation in stressed market areas.” It does not represent anything concrete, but it does represent a transfer that Díaz will be able to hold on to when the time comes.
The Family Bill, promoted by the acting Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, did not see the light of day. She declined because of the electoral repetition. However, the Executive did approve three permits that were included in the standard. One of them was the eight weeks parental leave, that Podemos wanted it to be remunerated to comply with a European directive and that finally went ahead without any financing due to socialist reluctance. In the current pact, the PSOE accepts “pay at least 4 weeks per child of the recently created parental care leave, starting in August 2024″.
At the beginning of last May, Sánchez announced that the Official Credit Institute (ICO) would guarantee young people 20% of the cost of buying a home. Podemos shouted to the sky and said they did not support this measure because it was more typical of the PP or Vox, than of a progressive party. The rest of the Executive partners did the same. Now the thing has changed. “We will develop and apply the new line of guarantees from the Official Credit Institute (ICO) of 2.5 billion euros to help young people under 35 years of age the guarantee system of 20% of the mortgage”, is the wording of the agreement closed this Tuesday.
The national health system
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Since last summer, what is known as ‘Darias law’by the former Minister of Health Carolina Darias, who aimed at the consolidation of the “equity, universality and cohesion of the National system of health“. The norm, which was not approved, generated friction with Unidas Podemos months ago since the purple ones denounced that the text did not allow to put a stop to the privatization of services that began during the government of José María Aznar. Those reluctance are over. Díaz has agreed to culminate with the approval of this law “which has already been approved by the Council of Ministers.” This note, included in the pact, is relevant, since it suggests that the original text will be promoted.
The repeal of the PP labor reform was another of the crises that bogged down the relationship between PSOE and Unidas Podemos. Although a consensual text was passed, the purple ones, like other partners, demanded that the compensation for unfair dismissal be increased to 45 days. The agreement does not contemplate this and only establishes that the Workers’ Statute will establish “guarantees for workers against dismissal (…) reinforcing causality in cases of termination of the employment relationship.”