The case of corruption investigating the Supreme Court and that affects the former secretary of Socialist Organization Santos Cerdán continues to cause chain reactions among government partners. Pedro Sánchez has the guarantee that at the moment none of them will force the end of the legislature with his support for a right of censure driven by the right, but both add and the rest of the games of the investiture block ask for more explanations. We can have broken the parliamentary and diagnostic negotiations that the Executive will agonize until the end of the mandate.
All also agree to criticize Sánchez's words in his appearance on Monday after the meeting of the PSOE executive. The socialist leader ruled out to resign under the premise that delivering the country's reins to the PP and Vox would be “a tremendous irresponsibility.” Parliamentary partners believe that it is not worth saying that the alternative is worse and requires forceful measures against corruption, as well as ensuring that the case does not permeate in the rest of the sectors of the party and even the government.
Summar: a “reset” of the legislature
The second vice president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, said Monday that the explanations provided so far by Sánchez are “insufficient.” Díaz transmitted a series of demands to the president at the meeting that both held in the Moncloa in the afternoon and from which the commitment to activate the coalition monitoring table came out, the body in which the two government parties meet. There they will raise the PSOE a change of course both in matters of democratic regeneration and in terms of social agenda. Díaz wants the Socialists to end the blockages of their laws in the Council of Ministers and in the Government and ask to activate the measures on housing, paternity permits and universal benefit by parenting.
“It is necessary to make this government worth the penalty. It is not enough to suggest the fear of the ultra -right. It has to make sense of the action of the government and makes sense if it improves the living conditions of the people. For this the government agreement must be fulfilled and unlock the measures that serve to improve the living conditions of the people in our country,” said the Minister of Social Rights, Pablo Bustinduy.
The adds of adding that are in the government rule out at the moment to leave their positions in the cases of corruption that have been published, but within the coalition, formed by a dozen parties, there are more forceful voices. On Tuesday, the deputy of the Communs, Gerardo Pisarello, has assured that all the scenarios are on the table, he has “broken” the trust with the PSOE and has warned that they will press until the end to give all the explanations.
Compromís, in a very hard line, has pointed out to Pedro Sánchez as the “political responsible” of the plot of corruption that splashes his party and believes that as a general secretary he should assume responsibilities on what he did in his formation those responsible for the organization elected by him. The spokeswoman for the Valencian formation in Congress, àgueda Micó, believes that the president must appear immediately and not wait until July 9 to give all the explanations and do not see with bad eyes that Sánchez came to undergo a matter of confidence in Congress to ensure that he maintains the support of the partners.
PNV asks to elucidate if corruption is “systemic”
The PNV wants to be “vigilant” before the case that splashes the PSOE, as transferred on Monday after the meeting of his executive. In an interview on Radio-Herri Irratia, the leader of the formation, Aitor Esteban, has asked this Tuesday to clarify whether they are specific people who have been “committing infractions and crimes for their own benefit” or if it is something “more systemic.”
“There may be a ball of which we only see the principle of thread. This report can be known throughout the next few weeks. There are stripes and exemplarity and humility when facing these situations is essential. This saying that a project must be kept at all costs … In politics there is an ethics and a line. The political parties will take positions. For your own benefit.
EH Bildu: “It is not worth saying that the alternative is worse”
EH Bildu did not like Sánchez's claim about the possible arrival of PP and Vox to the government. “The corruption is consubstantial to the regime of 78. We will be very demanding in the purification of responsibilities. It is no longer worth saying that the alternative is worse. The strategy that the others are worse will no longer work. The PSOE must be aware that there has been a screen change. The situation has varied substantially,” said the leader of the Basque independentistas Arnaldo Otegi in a radio interview in a radio interview in a radio interview Euskadi.
ERC sees insufficient explanations
ERC supports the investigation commission announced by Sánchez, but believes that the measures announced by the President are still insufficient. “It must appear in Congress and must do it now. Wednesday,” republican sources say, remember that Esquerra and BNG have already recorded a request for appearance last Friday.
In fact, ERC has supported the PP Board of Spokesmen on Tuesday to change the Plenary Day of this week and force Sanchez to appear this week. They tell us that the president cannot appear in Congress because 'he has to comply with his international agenda'. They should understand that to continue complying with that international agenda, he must continue to be president. ”
Republicans consider that the Cerdán case is more than a bump in the legislature. “It's a socavón,” ERC spokesman, Isaac Albert, summarized on Monday before Sánchez's appearance. So serious consider in the formation the crisis that is the Oriol Junqueras himself who has put himself in charge of the conversations with all the partners of the legislature and who will also be seen with Sánchez, although for the moment that appointment has no date.
For his part, Gabriel Rufián has changed the question of the control session to ask the government president on Wednesday what he intends to do after the dismissal of Cerdán.
After listening to the president for the second time since the recordings were known, the mood in ERC remained the same as the first. “Insufficient,” they repeat, and warn that a case of corruption like the one that appears in the listening to Cerdán and Ábalos greatly hinders their relationship with the government. “We owe us many explanations,” says Formation sources.
Beyond this, Republicans also recognize that they are not in a hurry to kill the legislature, because what they want is for the PSOE to fulfill the agreements with which he reached the Moncloa. This same month are very aware of two issues: the constitution of the new Rodalies company and the Generalitat's proposal for a “singular” financing of Catalonia. “If you want there to be legislature, they comply,” summarize party sources. Inform Arturo Puente.
Junts, waiting for the meeting with Sánchez
In Junts they remain in their usual secrecy regarding issues that qualify as “Madrid” and Formation sources indicated on Monday that they would not react to any appearance of Sánchez without first attending a meeting with him. The Carles Puigdemont hastened last Thursday to claim an appointment with the president, in which, they assured, they want to clarify whether for Sánchez the investiture agreements signed with them continue to be valid or not.
The fall of Cerdán, however, has meant an unexpected blow to the relationship between Junts and the Government, since the former secretary of Organization was, together with Jordi Turull, the link with Carles Puigdemont. In addition to the good relationship he had with Junts leaders, Cerdán was the person who had taken the weight of the negotiation they have in Switzerland and for which a delegation of both parties is seen once a month. Junts does not want this cutting channel, so a substitute demands to make interlocutor towards them. Inform Arturo Puente.
This Tuesday they have met with the president and will appear just after to give more details about their position.
We can break the negotiations with the government
Podemos is the game of the investiture block that has shown more hardness against Sánchez in the last hours. Rearme's plan had already removed the party of Ione Belarra from support to the government, but after the information of recent days, he has assured that all parliamentary negotiations are broken. In fact, the training spokesman, Pablo Fernández, said on Monday that Sanchez had no legitimacy to continue governing.
“It seems unfortunate to tell people that there is a corruption that is less bad than another because those in front are worse. That message is devastating. We think the same about the corruption of the PP as that of the PSOE. It is a very dangerous game,” said Belarra press conference this Tuesday.
“We have no negotiation with the government of war and corruption open and we will continue like this because we think that our country needs an urgent course. Pedro Sánchez is putting a red carpet to PP and Vox. Corruption is irreparable damage. We have the historical responsibility to grow the forces of regeneration and peace,” he said.
The BNG asks the government to “clear and determined actions” against corruption. The party leading Néstor Rego in Congress has held the idea of an investigation commission as Sánchez proposed, but asks for a complete audit in the Ministry of Transport on the scope of this plot. The block has also proposed that the president appear even this week to give explanations.
