A legislature in the shadow of its own wall. After the inauguration of Pedro Sánchez in November 2023 -amnesty provided-, the mandate began de facto after Christmas with the President of the Government promising that there was “legislature for a while.” But the difficult parliamentary balances, the unnatural pacts and the deep ideological differences of those who lent their ‘yes’ to continue in Moncloa are complicating the day-to-day life of an increasingly weak Government and incapable of carrying out dozens of votes, added to the whirlwind of corruption scandals in which it is mired. This Wednesday, the PSOE has suffered another eight defeats in the Congress of Deputies, a record number in a single day, as EP reports. With these, there are now a total of 48 parliamentary failures in less than a year. Since January, Sánchez has had to observe – on the occasions in which he has attended Parliament, at least – how his own partners turned their backs on him on all types of measures and even disapproved of his ministers. A reform of unemployment benefits, the Amnesty or Parity laws, the reform of the Immigration or Urban Leases laws, the law against pimping… and a multitude of regulations on unions, youth, taxation or even deficit objectives . One after another. The domino effect of defeats is dramatic: so much so that the Government itself withdrew its own text of the Land Law in May in the face of a desert panorama that showed that it was not going to gather the necessary support to overcome the entire debate either. The ‘betrayals’ ‘ of his partners and the successes of the PP Sánchez’s partners are complicating the life of a Government with assisted breathing that insists on subsisting under the umbrella of a fictitious ‘majority of progress’, which includes forces as unprogressive as the PNV or Together. These are much more aligned with the right on economic or social issues, as they constantly demonstrate in the votes, but they are aware that Sánchez in Moncloa involves habitual giving in to his nationalist whims. Even so, other leftist forces such as the BNG, Bildu or ERC have also ‘betrayed’ the socialists. But not only them. Sumar, who enjoys five seats in the Council of Ministers, has also voted against some PSOE proposals in Congress, aborting the policy path of his coalition partners. Those of Yolanda Díaz are not always faithful to Sánchez, perhaps in an attempt to distance themselves from the socialists and with an eye on polls that keep them in free fall. This same week, they abstained from voting on the reform of the National Security Law, allowing the PP to emerge victorious and forcing the Government to request authorization from Congress to send military material to other countries. Even so, this has not been the first time that the PP takes the lead. The popular ones have managed to push forward the demand for the deflation of personal income tax to compensate for inflation rates, the taking into consideration of a bill to make protection for the Iberian wolf more flexible or an initiative that recognized Edmundo González as elected president of Venezuela . They also received the green light on their non-law proposal on Western Sahara and relations with Morocco and another that called for strengthening primary care staff during the summer, as well as a motion on control of the Government in Congress and the regulations of the Lower House and another, recently, to demand that Renfe compensate users for AVE delays of between 15 and 30 minutes. This Wednesday, it happened again. In the Plenary Session of Congress, it has been approved that the Executive be held accountable for the Koldo case and for the ‘Delcygate’, with 185 positive votes from the PP, Vox, PNV, Junts, BNG, Canary Coalition and Navarro People’s Union. Two ministers failed in eight months To all this, we must add that two of Sánchez’s ministers have been failed in this period, first Fernando Grande-Marlaska (in charge of the Interior), at the end of February, after the murder of two civil guards in Barbate (Cádiz), and Óscar Puente, last week, in the face of chaotic railway management, due to the “seriousness of the incidents” and their “spirit”. In just ten months, the Government has fallen into a suffocating abyss. Their acrobatic pacts with radically different formations make it difficult for the PSOE to carry out its agenda… and the coming months do not seem much more hopeful.
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