He PSOE and Add is ironing out the last flaws in its agreement to re-elect Pedro Sánchez and form a new coalition government. The investiture continues without being cleared, lack of the pact with the Catalan sovereigntistsBasques and Galicians (especially with Junts, the party with which understanding is proving to be more complicated), but Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz have chosen not to wait any longer and step on the accelerator to seal the general lines of the future Executive if he finally throws out walk.
Both parties have taken this Monday night for sure that The pact will be announced this Tuesday. In fact, both the PSOE and Sumar were confident of having closed the agreement on Monday. However, reduction of working hourswhich is the underlying issue that has been a stumbling block during the last few days, was still not resolved at the last minute, so both parties They have decided to continue the talks at dawn. Díaz’s coalition defends an initiative of this type. The socialists have expressed reservations, but were willing to accept it, as long as it is carried out within the framework of social dialogue. That is, counting on the employers and the unions.
Sánchez and Díaz met in the Congress of Deputies on October 4. The president and the acting second vice president then committed that the pact, which has never been in danger, would be ready before the end of this month of October. But they did not want to rush the deadlines. If the agreement is closed today, and both parties assumed that it will be closed, everything will depend on ERC, Junts, EH Bildu, the PNV and the BNG, the rest of the groups that Sánchez needs to be invested and avoid the electoral repetition.
The obstacles
The main obstacle between the coalition partners was the refusal of the socialists to accept a reduction in working hoursan issue that Sumar considered “essential” and that has conditioned the agreement until the last minute.
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The socialists considered the pact imminent from early this Monday morning, but Díaz’s team cooled down the times, alleging that the reduction in the working day, which Díaz demands a reduction to 37.5 hours per week without the workers’ salary being reduced, was not included in the last proposal transferred by the PSOE. Without this measure, the acting second vice president’s collaborators explained, the agreement would not be signed.
Since the general elections of last July 23, Both forces have shown their intention to reissue the coalition, but Sumar has put a series of conditions on the table that have lengthened the talks. Added to the reduction in working hours is the development of a banking tax, now temporary, and the increased cost of dismissal, which Díaz now wants to recover through the “restorative” dismissal model, adapting compensation to personal circumstances. of each worker.