Not only are the waters rough for the PSOE in his relationship with Junts. The coalition government between the socialists and Add It is not going through its best moment with budget negotiations in the air and the focus of the political debate on housing. Besides, Can presses from the left and has raised your demands at a key moment for the legislature.
This Wednesday, while half the Government of Pedro Sanchez was in Portugal participating in the Spanish-Portuguese summit, the Congress has reflected the situation in a very graphic way. The day has been marked by the reproaches exchanged between the PSOE and its Executive partners, on the one hand, and the purple formation on the other.
“To mushrooms or to Rolex,” the PSOE began by criticizing, through its parliamentary spokesperson Patxi Lopezjoint voting from Sumar and PP in two parliamentary initiatives the day before. The first vice president, Maria Jesus Monterocalled the decision “incomprehensible” because “there was no reason to do it.”
The annoyance in the socialist ranks is obvious with Sumar. The PSOE usually avoids reproaching its coalition partners, but this Wednesday was not the day. Montero, in any case, attributed the movement of the space of Yolanda Diaz to competition on the left spectrum than to internal relations themselves.
It is an argument that government sources also repeat privately. “There is anxiety about being a protagonist in that political space“, these sources point out.
The different approaches to the PP
In Sumar they recognize that privately their partners in the Executive have been very upset with the exchange of letters with the PP, but they insist that this movement “will allow the scandal of the Fraudulent mortgages prior to 2011 and that Congress takes a position on arms shipments to different conflicts.”
“The question is how many times The PSOE and the PP have voted together or agreed on lawswhat has been its content, and why have we not shown this indignation, which sounds a bit fake,” say voices from the Sumar parliamentary group.
The PSOE extends its perception that there is a need for prominence to Podemos, a party with which there has been a strong confrontation during the parliamentary session.
Rodríguez (Vivienda) had an intense face to face with Belarra (Vamos) and with Alberto Ibáñez (Compromís-Sumar) this Wednesday
He face to face between Montero and the general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarrareflected it first thing in the morning. The vice president appealed to the personal “respect” she has with her former government colleague. But he warned that his critical positions, assimilating the PSOE with the PP, play into the hands of the right. “No one buys that speech,” Montero told Belarra.
The appearance of the Minister of Housing, Isabel Rodriguezwas also tense. Sumar was warned that he had to decide if he was “with rentiers or with those who have to return to their parents’ house“. Rodríguez counterattacked: “Who are you with, with the Government or with the opposition?” he told Alberto Ibáñez, Compromís deputy within the Sumar parliamentary group.
The minister went further and told Sumar the following: “When things go well, you get a medal, and when they don’t, it’s the PSOE’s fault. Nothing happens, We are the older brothers and we take charge“, she said in reference to housing policies. Those from Díaz attribute these words from Rodríguez to the fact that the minister felt “cornered” in a very difficult parliamentary debate after the mobilizations of recent weeks have pointed to his resignation.
With Belarra the tension increased. The leader of Podemos reminded her of the three homes that the minister has. “They defend the rentiers because they are rentiers,” he said. “You are very interested in my properties. With my three properties I don’t even have to pay for half of the villa in Galapagar“, responded the minister in reference to the home of Pablo Iglesias and Irene Montero. A statement that generated deep rejection by the purple party on social networks.
A scenario without Budgets?
In this context, socialist sources point out that the purple formation manages a scenario in which they believe there will be no Budgets. Hence their attitude, they point out and their “fusses” with housing. They consider that their latest demand from the PSOE, to reduce rents by 40%, is “unviable” because “you cannot intervene in the private sector.”
The socialist wing believes that Podemos is wrong in the legislature’s diagnosis and they emphasize that there will be public accounts. They do not contemplate that if there is an agreement with all political groups, including Junts, the purple force will be left out. “We can have to choose if it wants to support a progressive government,” say sources from the socialist leadership.
In Podemos they have been reporting for some time that the Sánchez Government (which they consider the only authorized voice of the Executive) has shifted its strategy to the right, and They consider the legislature exhausted in terms of progressive policies. “The CGPJ has agreed with the PP, after complaining about being victims of lawfare with the matter of the president’s wife,” they recall.
Regarding the Budgets, they insist that they are going to use their strength and influence to the maximum, and that if the PSOE does not accept two measures “that are a cry for the left”, such as the breaking of relations with Israel and the public intervention of rental prices“that they seek the votes of the PP.”
Nor has Podemos’s position on everything related to the Koldo case. This Wednesday, Belarra compared Sánchez’s attitude with José Luis Ábalos to that of Mariano Rajoy and a few days ago the party spokesman, Pablo Fernández, said that it was “implausible” that the president was unrelated to the corruption plot. “They will know what they are playing by playing into the hands of the right and extreme right,” reflect socialist sources.
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