The Santos Cerdán scandal can also cause a new crisis in adding, the political space with which the PSOE in coalition governs. A part of Compromís and Més, the sovereign Balearic Islands, discuss next week in their respective management bodies if they leave the parliamentary group to go to the mixed. The address has tried these days of negotiating several bands to try to avoid rupture.
The parliamentary group presided by Yolanda Díaz prepares for a few agitated days. The first key date is next Monday, the meeting of the National Consell of Més-Compromís, the old block, the sovereignty and also majority of Compromís, which will decide if the mixed group leaves after some tense negotiations about their lace in adding that they have not fruitful.
During the week, the Executive of Més Per Mallorca will also meet, which faces an internal debate about whether it makes sense to stay in a parliamentary group that not only supports the government, but also has five ministries. The training that has Vicenç Vidal as a deputy in Congress has asked Yolanda Díaz to leave the Executive before the scandal that splashes the Socialist Party. In full crisis, the deputy of Chunta Aragonesista, Jorge Pueyo, has also slipped that he could leave the group.
The reasons for each of these formations to address the rupture are different, but all are crossed for two reasons that have triggered the debate: their territorial character and the impact caused by the case of corruption that affects the secretary of Socialist Organization until a few days ago.
The crisis with Compromís is prior to the news about the Civil Guard report, but its appearance has complicated the negotiations. The conflict began with the refusal of the Directorate to add to incorporate the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in the list of appearing parties for the Dana Research Commission, as requested by the Valencian formation.
This clash opened a broader debate about the lace of the party in the parliamentary group: Compastement has long claimed a greater horizontality in decision -making and accuses the direction of having subtracted political autonomy in some matters of importance, with the DANA commission as a final drop.
But when opening the internal conversation about how the lace should be, the Valencian formation has been divided into two hardly reconcilable positions. Més wants to leave the parliamentary group and end in the mixed. Initiative, meanwhile, wants to stay. Compromís tried to reconcile the two positions at a management meeting last week in which it was agreed to establish a negotiation with adding to find a route that guarantees the Valencian deputies greater autonomy.
The parliamentary group these days came to offer the possibility of asking oral questions to the government in the control session, one of the demands at the negotiating table. Compromís already has a signature to register initiatives and has an attached spokesman in the group despite having only two deputies, so adding a few more alternatives to grant them that autonomy.
The group's offer did not satisfy Més, who met last Thursday with the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, the main interlocutor to add in this whole crisis. From that encounter, no agreement did not come out. The sovereignty want to add into a different group, similar to the plural that the previous legislature worked with together, more country or the BNG. That group, however, was the result of a parliamentary agreement among several forces without sufficient representation to have their own group, practically as the mixed. Add, on the other hand, was born as an electoral coalition to unite the lefts that later resulted in a parliamentary force with the vocation of reconciling its different sensibilities but also of having a clear and consensual political direction.
In adding there are different voices that interpret that the Més-Compromís movement only makes sense if you look at the Valencian electoral code, two years ahead still for the regional and the possibility of sorpasso to the PSOE. An objective that happens to make more opposition to the government also in the state level. There are some deputies who begin to irritate themselves with the feeling that negotiations have not made sense and that Més already had a decision made. But in the Valencian training they refuse to talk about electoral strategy and claim their “autonomy” as a political party to defend their position.
The National Consell of Més will position himself on Monday about the question asked by the party executive: if they believe that we must continue to add or go to the mixed. It is practically sure that the majority position will be the breakdown, but the steps from the verdict are uncertain. One option is that the decision will be re -leaded to the direction of all Compromís although there are those who believe that this movement makes no sense, since that debate has already occurred on Monday. “We agreed to negotiate and the negotiation has not worked,” summary sources from the party. If Més opts for the rupture, Compromís will be foreseeably divided into two in Congress, with àgueda Micó in the mixed and Alberto Ibáñez in adding.
Més Per Mallorca wants to add out of the government
The situation with Més Per Mallorca is much more linked to the case of corruption in the PSOE. The formation is very uncomfortable with the situation in which the Saints Cerdán scandal leaves to the Government and specifically to add, with five ministers. Although the training is not part of that executive, it is part of the Yolanda Díaz parliamentary group. In recent days, they have transferred the need to break the progressive coalition and leave the PSOE to govern alone, an option that at the moment does not share the majority political forces.
Although in adding there are leaders who do not rule out getting out of the government if the judicial news is complicated for the PSOE, for the moment the decision agreed by the main parties is to demand within the Executive a change of course to the legislature, with a new relationship between partners and a dissemination determined to the social measures of the investiture agreement.
A tesiture that they do not share in Més for Mallorca, which took their executive on Thursday to address a deep debate about whether it makes sense to follow in the parliamentary group or leave. The decision that left that meeting was to take more time to think, until next week, since the question also raises some internal division. The deputy of Més, Vicenç Vidal, taking for the first time to his party to Congress on July 23, 2023, thanks to the pact with adding that he guaranteed him to be head of the Balearic Islands.
In the last hours, the deputy of Chunta Aragonesista, Jorge Pueyo, has also threatened to leave the parliamentary group if the PSOE does not accept his plan to fight corruption and democratization of “a state that has been inheriting these corrupt policies from Francoism and a transition that did not punish these behaviors and, therefore, covered them and consolidated them.” “For Cha, all the scenarios are open,” sources from the party argue.
A loop crisis
Adding can stay in the next few days without three of its 27 deputies, a new hard blow for the parliamentary group and in general for the project built by Yolanda Díaz, but has not been able to drive. Just these days a year of his resignation was completed as an organic leader of the coalition to focus on the government's task. The group began the legislature with 31 deputies, but soon lost 5 with the departure of Podemos (it would recover a few more weeks after the resignation of Lilith Verstrynge). And just a few months ago he lost his spokesman and main political reference in Congress, Íñigo Errejón, wrapped in a scandal of course sexual harassment. In just two years of legislature, he has had three spokesmen.
And to the group problems are added the difficulties in building a decisions structure of the coalition that goes beyond the parties. Diaz's resignation has caused in these months, as different leaders of space, a leadership vacuum when coordinating political action complains. The parties worked at the beginning of the year to improve the interlocution between formations, with monthly meetings and joint acts, but have encountered many problems when agreeing common positions on delicate issues such as defense expenditure or the clash for the sending of weapons to Israel.
The group still trusts this crisis, although the situation with Compromís is the most delicate, with the stability of the Valencian coalition at stake. The next hours will be decisive for the future of the left -wing coalition that is plunged into an internal crisis in the worst possible time.
