The PSOE, faced with the challenge of managing the competition of ERC and Junts and that of Sumar and Podemos to approve the Budgets

This Friday the Junts Congress begins in the town of Calella (Barcelona). Carles Puigdemont will once again exercise the presidency of the Catalan party and the strategy is expected to be redefined. From Moncloa and Ferraz they are watching the conclave of the independence force carefully because they are aware that the event can condition the future, both in the short and long term, of the stability of the Government.

The socialists have been for months, especially since the elections in Catalonia and the subsequent investiture of Salvador Illaconveying that the eternal competition between ERC and Junts affects them. They do not hide that Junts has not digested the pact between the PSC and the Republicans and that the relationship changed at that time.

Budget negotiations are underway, although first comes the spending ceiling. own Pedro Sanchez was quite clear about it in some statements made last month. “We do not do politics in a vacuum, we will have to wait for the congresses of the parliamentary partners we have,” he said then.

There is no rush in the Government, according to the sources consulted. It is even considered to speed up the entire process starting in December. The last weekend of November the congresses of the PSOE and ERC coincide in time. The socialists are counting on waiting until positions are clarified.

“With Junts, Congress conditions everything a lot. It is not easy, they are demanding, they have Illa’s thorn, but we trust that it will go well. Everything is conditioned, but especially in public expressions“say government sources familiar with the contacts with Puigdemont’s party.

“With Junts, Congress conditions everything a lot. It is not easy, they are demanding,” the Government points out

In this context, the first vice president and Minister of Finance, Maria Jesus Monteropointed out this Thursday that after the congressional processes there will be more capacity to “put the emphasis” on the path of stability and the budgets.

“Hold and maintain that we We will seek understanding with all the directions that arise from the congressional processesof these formations and others. Our desire is always for consensus, for dialogue,” Montero added.

“Discretion” is the mantra that continues to operate on the meetings held, or not, with Junts in Switzerland. The Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, Santos Cerdanis the usual interlocutor with Puigdemont and has a good relationship with Jordi Turull according to socialist sources.

In the Executive they appeal that they are complying with the agreements and it is being verified. An example of this came this Thursday. Government and Generalitat of Catalonia They met to establish the monitoring committee of the agreement for the publication of state regulations in the Catalan language, which was signed last July by Minister Félix Bolaños and the then Catalan Minister of the Presidency Laura Vilagrá.

The creation of this body will allow the agreement to be launched, with the aim that the new supplement in Catalan can be published from next December 1 in the Official State Gazette (BOE).

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Not only the PSOE has the challenge of convincing and caring equally for ERC and Junts. The socialists see certain parallels in the competition in the space on the left between Sumar and Podemos. Relations have been sour in recent days. with Wednesday as the perfect example.

From the purple force, the demands have been raised to approve the Budgets. They demand the Breaking relations with Israel and a 40% reduction in rents. A proposal that the Government describes as “unviable” and “fuss” to want to establish a position in a turbulent political space. Montero herself accused Podemos leader Ione Belarra of playing into the hands of the right with her criticism.

With Sumar the waters do not go down calmly either. The specific alliance of the space Yolanda Diaz with the PP to approve two parliamentary initiatives greatly upset the socialist ranks. They made it very clear in public statements made this Wednesday. The socialists do not usually use the strategy of open confrontation with their coalition partners, so the words of Montero or Patxi López did not go unnoticed.

In any case, the Sánchez Government denies that there is a crack and frames this situation in the aforementioned space competition to get the upper hand. “Their electorates are demanding and they all demand results and influence,” government sources reflect.

The Executive’s capacity for resistance is once again tested before the end of the year. All of this in the midst of a judicial offensive against Begoña Gómez, the president’s wife, or against the State Attorney General. Alvaro García Ortiz.

Added to this are the advances in the Koldo case and the more than feasible accusation of the former minister José Luis Ábalos. As if that were not enough, the resignation of Sumar’s parliamentary spokesperson Íñigo Errejón amid accusations of sexist violence clouds the atmosphere a little more.