Díaz denounces that a part of the Government wants to maintain the “status quo” of the PP labor reform

The internal crisis of the Government on account of the repeal of the labor reform is of depth. On Friday a gap opened in the coalition caused by the battle to decide who coordinates the dismantling of the rule approved by the PP in 2012. Nadia Calviño or Yolanda Díaz. But the conflict goes further. The second vice president and leader of Unidos Podemos denounced this Monday that the debate “It is about content and not about people“. As he said from Santiago de Compostela, first thing in the morning, in the socialist wing of the Executive there are those who want to”that the ‘status quo’ be maintained“of the labor reform. From the PSOE, its spokesman, Felipe Sicilia, insisted after noon in Ferraz that what is at stake is the implementation of a”new frame“of relations in the labor market and that the majority of the Cabinet has to”participate“of the negotiations.

“What is taking place within the government is a debate on the contents of the labor reform,” explained Díaz, diverting the controversy of Calviño’s “interference” in his powers to a more ideological plane. After the inauguration of a dialogue on Spain 2050, the second vice president stressed that “there is a part of the Government that continues to discuss the contents” of the rule today and that, therefore, the conflict “it is not about who leads“But what are they going to do. This afternoon, at the meeting that Unidos Podemos demanded of its partners, they will have to address that debate.

Díaz, who on Friday did not comment on the controversy that arose as a result of an email sent by Calviño’s vice presidency to all ministries claiming the direction of the works to dismantle the labor reform, has not wanted to enter this struggle. “I never discuss the positions“, he pointed out. The leader of United We Can wants to remain faithful, at least in the face of the gallery, to her rejection of egos. She even recalled that it took her” five minutes “to resign from the second vice presidency when Pablo Iglesias left.

We can say that “it is not going to allow Nadia Calviño to make a labor reform at the service and measure of the bosses” #Direct pic.twitter.com/swzSGM7UQr

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Red lines

What it is not willing to do is to give up its efforts to repeal the labor reform. “We are going to derogate the labor reform, despite all the resistance, which there is and there are many, “he sentenced last Saturday at the closing of the 40th Congress of Workers’ Commissions. The message for Calviño was clear. And, just in case, this Monday he returned it to repeat: “What we do want is to face the labor reform that we need because do not abrogate is to continue maintaining precariousness in our country. ” in ‘Al rojo vivo’ (La Sexta)He recognized the “complicated” moment that the Government is currently experiencing and asked the Socialists to “clarify” whether or not they want to end the PP legislation.

The co-spokesperson of Podemos, Isa Serra, was much more blunt regarding the role that the first vice president can play: “She is a person who has always been against repealing the labor reform. Perhaps it is not the most suitable for piloting this process“At a press conference at the headquarters of the purple party, he stressed that United We Can not allow Calviño” to make a labor reform at the service and measure of the bosses. ”

In Ferraz, after the meeting of the federal executive of the PSOE chaired by Pedro Sánchez, they deliberately chose to lower the tension with the partners. The new spokesman, Felipe Sicilia, reiterated the argument made by the party and by the chief executive since Friday: that the labor reform is a “structural” law, key in the legislature, and that it must be, like all others, a “whole government” rule, as has happened before with the minimum vital income, the housing law or the State Budgets. And “of course the PSOE wants to participate of this labor reform and of the negotiations, there would be more, “he said. That is, it is not enough for the majority partner to be” informed “of the conversations that Diaz and his Secretary of State have been holding since March. Joaquin Perez Rey, with the social agents. Now he wants to “participate”, “contribute” to the negotiations, because there are ministries “involved”, in addition to Labor. What the deputy for Jaén did not specify is whether Calviño’s team in Economy should sit at the table with businessmen and unions. That crucial detail is left for the afternoon meeting.

#Direct | Sicilia (PSOE) points out that Labor is preparing a “labor reform” when asked about why Podemos speaks of ‘repealing’

He emphasizes that the Government “is in good health” when asked about the reactions of the PSOE and Podemos on Alberto Rodríguez pic.twitter.com/D8XBmxME7F

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According to the new context

And, in response to Díaz, Sicilia pointed out that “to those who insist on terminology”, the PSOE responds that what the Government wants is a “new labor reform and a new labor relations framework“, which” gives quality and stability to employment and stimulates the economy “and which adapts to the new economic context, which is” in accordance with the technological and labor revolution. “” An adequate labor framework to take advantage of European funds “and which at the same time “guarantee the rights of the workers”, rights that the PP “took away” in 2012. The truth is that the PSOE itself has used the word “repeal” on multiple occasions. It is true that the president shuns it, not like that. his number two, Adriana Lastra. And that term, “repeal” is in the December 2019 coalition agreement.

Sánchez, in fact, a few minutes later, and at the closing of the seminar ‘Monitoring the recovery beyond GDP’, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, reiterated that “the entire Government is committed to addressing the modernization of labor legislation to eradicate, one, job insecurity; two, boost the competitiveness of our economy; and, three, to restore the rebalancing in the negotiation between employers and workers. Such legislation, with a vocation to endure, will be done in Spain as it is done in Europe, with social dialogue and a vocation for consensus, “he added.

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Sicilia, at all times, sought to convey a feeling of “normal“Within the coalition. What if there is?”Doubts“What to clarify regarding specific issues, they talk, without major importance. But this is the great battle within the two-color government. Not one more. Because it is a very sensitive matter for the purple and because the socialists want to control the reform and prevent it from It is patrimonialized by its partners, and furthermore, and this is not a minor detail, the European Union is vigilant.