The investiture is entangled between written agreements and verbal demands | Spain

Days will come when the words will greatly irritate many citizens, including socialist militants and voters, and also, although to a lesser extent, Sumar’s followers and voters. Days will come when independence leaders of ERC and Junts, separately, they will raise the tone and content of their demands. Even so, the inexorable deadline for the automatic dissolution of the Cortes if there is no investiture of Pedro Sánchez, will force everyone to decide on the limit of their principles, their strategies and their expectations. At this time, the texts for the amnesty are almost finished and shared with considerable acceptance. The knot has become tangled in words, not in writings. Yeah Carles Puigdemont If Catalonia persists in expressing in a text Catalonia’s right to unilateral action in deciding its future, there will be no agreement.

From the agendas of the PSOE, Sumar, Podemos, ERC and Junts, the date of the different modalities of consultations that they promised to their bases on the pacts for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez has been erased. With six weeks ahead Until the bell rings the end of the game, and elections are called, the specific texts can continue with their polishing process, and the verbal demands of the independence movement can still be lowered. It is not foreseeable that the demands for maximums will moderate in the coming days, according to the forecast of the government and the socialist negotiators. Nor has the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonés, abandoned the rhetoric of republican independence nor, for his part, Carles Puigdemont, leader, without needing titles in Junts, giving truce to the PSOE. The interlocutors consulted from all the parties concerned confirm the difficulty of the moment, without considering anything broken.

In Madrid the PSOE negotiating commission will formally meet this Tuesday although its work is incessant without announced calls. Conversations with the independence movement are part of his daily life. In Sumar, the information that comes from Catalonia channeled by Jaume Asens, former deputy of en Comú Podem, is handled fluently. This group, however, is not related to CKD.

The socialists’ channel with Junts per Catalunya is their own, with the particularity that Yolanda Díaz’s relationship of loyalty to Pedro Sánchezand mutual consideration, allows us to avoid the misgivings that the acting second vice president arouses in part of the PSOE. In the end, the acting head of government has information from all parties, which is very useful to him. Those sworn in silence, from all parties, strictly comply, although they do reveal where the problems lie. From a political perspective, the socialists point to the rivalry between ERC and Junts, personalized in the president of the republican party, Oriol Junqueras, and the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont. It is not a circumstance that they can ignore because for both the electoral supremacy of the independence movement in Catalonia is at stake. Puigdemont, in addition, has other elements to take into account, which are his personal and criminal future.

The demanding and detached tone expressed by Junts spokeswoman, Miriam Noguerasafter meeting on Friday with the acting president of the government, and Puigdemont’s demonstrations, only show the difficulties but not that the negotiation has stopped. The same happens with ERC, although the parliamentary spokesperson, Gabriel Rufián, has rejected Pedro Sánchez’s claim to achieve a legislative agreement, or, at least for the first budgets. Now the investiture is only negotiated under concessions for Catalonia. Among them, the amnesty for those accused of process. Even the drafting of the preamble of the amnesty law is progressing, socialist sources point out, although it may not seem like it based on the high-sounding statements to constitutionalist ears.

After Pedro Sánchez’s first round with the parliamentary groups, there is no numerical progress—yes, and a lot in the texts—except with Bildu. The priorities of this group have not changed: Not encouraging the PP and Vox to govern and permanent progress in social and freedom policies. This group, represented in the meeting with Pedro Sánchez by the spokesperson in Congress, Mertxe Aizpurua and Senator Gorka Elejebarrieta, does not hide its satisfaction with “the photo.” There have been many working meetings with the PSOE since 2019 but with that image its presence in national political life “is normalized,” they point out in that formation. “It is the photo of indignity,” the PP has proclaimed. Statements and photographs of Borja Sémper, spokesperson for the party, and Javier Maroto, first vice president of the party, both Basque leaders at different stages, with representatives of Bildu, have quickly been put into circulation. “The future of Basque society also has to be built with Bildu, whether you like it more or less,” said Sémper. already in 2014. If Bildu had wanted, it could also have a photo of its representatives with the king in the round of consultations for the investiture. This time the Basque independence group declined the interview with the head of state. He did attend in 2011. The then head of state, Juan Carlos I, shook the hand of the representative of Amaiur, Xabier Mikel Errekondo. It was the round of interviews for Mariano Rajoy’s investiture. Since then, they have not repeated a visit or photo in La Zarzuela.