Sánchez leaves the congressional examination redoing the majority of the investiture

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07/13/2022 at 22:53

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The Government reconciles with the left, saves its reform of the CGPJ and deepens the clash with the PP | Feijóo avoids ruling for the second day on taxes on energy and banking

“We were reaching the top of Everest, at that point where you can either fall backwards or you can go over the top. and luckily we have passed the summit”. A PSOE deputy summed up this Wednesday the sweet aftertaste left by the first part of the state of the nation debate. The unequivocal feeling of victory by a landslide by the Government. Comeback after weeks and months of disorientation and low spirits. Pedro Sánchez, in the eyes of his family, managed to reverse the downward trend and mark a “turning point & rdquor; in the legislature. The president decidedly promoted the progressive agenda with his clear turn to the left and strengthened (even for a few days) his coalition with United We Can. But not only. He also managed recompose the majority of the investiture.

Sánchez’s clash with the ERC spokesman was rough, yes, but because the socialist leader was outraged that Gabriel Rufián showed on the platform three bullets collected next to the Melilla fence on June 24, when at least 23 immigrants died. However, the Republicans the music did not sound bad of the new taxes on banks and electricity companies. The same thing happened this Wednesday on the second day of debate in Congress: Sánchez received applause from the left, although they demanded more steps.

Íñigo Errejón, leader of More Country, celebrated the “coup of the rudder & rdquor; of the Executive and wished it to be “firm and determined & rdquor ;. “We value positively the measures that you have announced, but we expect more, starting with an ambitious, progressive and fair tax reform & rdquor ;, he pointed out Mertxe Aizpuruaspokesperson for EH Bildu, who nevertheless spoke of “patches & rdquor ;. Ferran Belof the PDECat, “agreed with the diagnosis and with some” of the initiatives announced by the chief executive, although they are not clear about “the policies to combat them” that will be deployed, reports EFE.

Aitor Esteban was more complaining, head of the PNV in the lower house: he demanded a change of attitude from Sánchez if he wants to continue trusting his group, denounced that he has not fulfilled the investiture commitments, that he does not call his partners to agree on the measures with them. “And you can’t afford to do without us & rdquor ;, Esteban snapped. The PNV is not “frontally against the fact that temporarily & rdquor; the benefits of electricity companies and banks are taxed, but “can’t be done anyway”. The deputy assumed that he will have to “discuss under pressure & rdquor; the initiatives to “not derail the Government & rdquor ;. “You only look at the next curve without paying attention to the following ones on the road”, he made ugly.

Sánchez minimized the fall of the bank in the stock market on Tuesday and insisted on the need for social justice and “fair distribution of the burdens of war”. And he told Esteban that this July the Council of Ministers will approve the draft of the new official secrets law, a norm highly coveted by the PNV and promised by the Executive. You will still have to pass the text through a second reading within the Council of Ministers before walking towards Congress.

“ETA no longer exists”

The rights, in any case, remained in the opposite trench. The PP, which left an image of a half-empty bench on the second day of the debate, He continued without giving his opinion on the new taxes. “Let’s see what they consist of and then we will give our final opinion“, Alberto Núñez Feijóo excused himself from San Lorenzo de El Escorial.

With Junts, as expected, not the slightest chemistry. With Ciudadanos, there was no connection. Rather the opposite: shock. Inés Arrimadas considered Sánchez’s measures “wasteful” and assured that they are the ones he needs to “not die politically”. Does not have “ideology“, neither “scruples“, he told him. And, as the PP did the day before, he reproached him for his alliance with Bildu for the law of democratic memory. “I have bad news to tell you and the right-wing bench: ETA no longer exists&rdquor ;, launched the president back.

Sánchez, on the other hand, did not answer Aizpurua when she transferred the “sorrow and pain” to the victims of terrorism: “We want to tell you from the bottom of our hearts that we are very sorry for your suffering and we are committed to trying to mitigate it & rdquor ;. The deputy reproduced the words of the Aiete Declaration of last October 18, but they had not been heard like this in the plenary session of the Lower House. And if the president did not even comment on them, it was due, they explained from Ferraz, to the fact that he did not want the focus to fall on him, knowing that the right is insistently attacking him for his latest pact with the nationalist left.

After the debate ended around 4:00 p.m., the groups presented their resolution proposals (138 were registered), which will be discussed and voted on this Thursday by the plenary session of Congress. Those of the PSOE, very genericthey limited themselves to expressing the president’s commitments, with the purpose of not opening new cracks with United We Can (did not include any on increased military spending, for instance). But those of the purple ones did reveal their intention to give Fight: establish a minimum effective rate of 15% in companies, raise personal income tax on wages of more than 10,000 euros per month, a tax on large fortunes and a 10% increase in corporate tax on large supermarkets to give food checks. And they also included the conviction for the events that occurred at the Melilla fence.

In parallel, the full took into consideration the reform of the Organic Law of the Judiciary to return to the governing body of the judges the power to appoint two magistrates for the Constitutional Court. the socialists they took the vote forward (with 183 votes, those of PSOE, UP, ERC, Más País-Compromís, PDECat, PNV, Bildu and PRC) with the help of their partners. The machinery worked perfectly. And it will work again this Thursday, when the text is voted definitively and several decree laws are also validated (among them, the second shock plan against the war, perhaps with the ERC abstaining) and the bill of memory (with the presumed abstention of CKD). The Government did not reveal this Wednesday any concern for any of its initiatives. None, he said, was in danger.



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