The contents of the agreement, the forms and the guarantees separate the Republicans from the two partners of the Government
The main partner of the Government of PSOE and United We Can in Congress, ERC, opposes one of the half stars of this legislature, the labour reform. Saved the General State Budgets (PGE), one and the other exhibit poor harmony on an issue on which everyone agreed in the electoral campaign, the forced need to “repeal” the norm approved by the PP. These are the reasons why the Republicans remain in a ‘no’ without internal fissures.
The opposition to the text agreed by Yolanda Diaz with unions and employers is frontal. According to Republican sources, in the initiative “there is no reference to processing wages or subcontracting.” In addition, ERC sent the Government a specific wording “that affects the Collective negotiation in Catalonia and, as for the ERE”, Esquerra raised “the recovery of the administrative authorization and not just a report from the Labor and Social Security Inspectorate (ITSS).
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It is, perhaps, the heart of the matter, because, in principle, a labor negotiation between leftist parties should have a horizon of agreement. But ERC complains about the Government’s veto “touch a single comma” of the pact reached with the CEOE, after the employer’s threat to withdraw from the agreement if the text underwent any modification. Esquerra sees it as unacceptable that “a pact reached in an office cannot be retouched in the seat of popular sovereignty.” For this reason, they defend the processing of the new labor regulation as bill, and not as a decree.
Spain today has a coalition government, something unexplored since 1978. This forces ERC to deal with the two souls of the Executive, knowing that, deep down, who cuts the cod is one, the PSOE and, specifically, Pedro Sanchez. This means that the offers that directly come to them from the Vice President Yolanda Diaz, of United We Can, are welcomed by ERC with all precautions, because they do not have the socialist endorsement. That is, they are wet paper. For this reason, the Republicans demand that, in this processing as a bill, the amendments be “drafted and signed” by the three parties (PSOE, United We Can and ERC) and that the votes be made public. The publicity in the communication comes from the under the table offers that have come to them, promises of modification that are requested to be kept in the private sphere. Something to which ERC opposes, alleging the need for light and stenographers.