The Government also tries to save the mandatory mask decree

The Executive has, in the next three weeks, two important votes to win in Congress. At the end of January, the validation of the decree that reimposed the mask outdoors. And in the first week of February (the Thursday 3, exactly), the endorsement of the decisive labour reform. Both texts are still up in the air, although the Government hopes to push them forward. Not without tensions with the parliamentary groups.

The agreement with employers and unions is the key piece, and in the negotiation differences in the strategies of the coalition partners are appreciated. The socialists insist that there is “no margin at all” of negotiation, that the decree has to be validated “and point”, without subsequently processing it as a bill, in order to introduce amendments. In United We Can they are more flexible and already anticipate how “sure” that, to attract PNV and ERC, two changes will have to be introduced: guarantee the prevalence of regional agreements over state ones and recover administrative authorization for you are for the communities.

The decree law that made the mask mandatory again on the street It was in danger weeks ago. The Government met with harsh criticism from the groups (including its usual allies) and questioning from the experts. Now the preliminary talks are underway and, according to sources from the socialist leadership, the expectations are “positive& rdquor ;, although “it remains negotiation ahead”, especially with the investiture block. Other small forces in Congress are not so clear that the rule will receive the necessary endorsement.

The PSOE intends that the decree be validated, without changes being introduced later. They defend that it would not make sense, because the mandatory nature of the mask will decline, Pedro Sánchez already promised, as soon as possible. It also argues that the text includes measures to help decongest healthcare, by authorizing the hiring of healthcare personnel retired and facilitate the transfer of professionals with a specialist degree obtained in non-EU states. And it includes, finally, a legal modification to ensure the maintenance of the purchasing power of pensions.

The meat controversy, through

The labor reform, for its part, has more days left for conversation with the groups. In Moncloa they admit what “strange” of a week that has been dominated by the meat controversy sponsored by Alberto Garzón, which has raised the tension between PSOE and United We Can. Now, after the media deployment of Minister Luis Planas and the clear support that Sánchez and the PSOE have given him in front of the head of Consumption, the Executive tries to lower the ball to the ground, get the president out of the puddle and divert the blame to the PP, for trying “to stretch” the controversy to fish for more votes in Castilla y León.

The second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, is already talking to the groups, as is the PSOE, through the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños. The two members of the coalition insist that the text must be validated so as not to return to the PP legislation of 2012. But from there the nuances arise. The PSOE does not want modifications, because it would run the risk of breaking the difficult “Balance” achieved with employers and unions, and in particular he fears that the businessmen, who endorsed the text with internal shreds, will distance themselves.

In Díaz’s entourage, it is argued that this inflexible position of the PSOE is due to its “negotiating strategy”, but that it will have to accept changes in the end. Specifically, on two points: the prevalence of regional agreements, in which the PNV and ERC are very firm, and in providing more tools to the Labor Inspection in Catalonia, which the Republicans insist on.

What will not be included

The purple ones point out that, as much as the employers warn of the “rupture of the market unit & rdquor ;, there are already regional agreements (although they are a minority), in addition to provincial ones. And that it would not be complicated to touch the authorization of the beings either. “Where we will not give in is change in severance pay or the recovery of processing salaries & rdquor ;, they indicate in United We Can: that would be beautiful case for employers, they point out.

The photo, right now, is that Bildu and BNG they are “very distant” and PNV and ERC, firm but “open to negotiate.” The socialists do not rule out Cs, but the purple ones do, who remember that the nine orange votes are insufficient and scare the investiture partners. “The PNV would be needed, and they set the bar for the agreements, and Cs will not enter there. The PSOE must realize that its calculator & rdquor ;, its claim to build bridges with Inés Arrimadas, “does not work & rdquor ;. “We are going to get the reform doing politics, as did [María Jesús] Montero with the Budgets, but the PSOE must know that it is our creature. We will have to agree on the limits, but the nodal piece is in Work & rdquor ;. Diaz’s strategy is, how ‘El Periódico de España’ progressed, agree with the partners, before the validation debate, the scope of the changes that would be introduced to the reform, the procedure and the deadlines.

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ERC insists that it is still “very far & rdquor; of the government. The ‘president’, Pere Aragonès, has seen this week with the second vice-president, on Wednesday, and with the head of Equality, Irene Montero, this Friday. The Republicans argue that there is no real negotiation, but “protocol” contacts, and that “blackmail” will not move them from the no. that Bolaños clearly stated: if they do not support the reform, they are validating the PP’s legislation. Other partners of the Executive, such as Más País and Compromís, guarantee entry at least abstention, although they warn that there is room for “improvement & rdquor ;. The pattern of this negotiation will probably resemble that of previous deals: high-pressure talks and deals on the horn.