The government has begun to doubt whether whether or not you have enough votes to validate this Thursday in Congress the decree law of measures against the war in Ukraine, which includes the direct subsidy of gasoline. A week ago his approval was taken for granted, but the open crisis with ERC, due to the alleged espionage with the ‘software’ pegasus to more than 65 pro-independence positions, has put his parliamentary support and that of EH Bildu in check, since one of his deputies would also have been heard through his mobile phone.
Although the Executive has tried to cap the unrest of the republicans -one of the fundamental groups of its majority in the Chamber-, with the announcement of an internal investigation at the National Intelligence Center, which has point directly to CNI as the author of these events, and the promise of explanations in the official secrets commission, none of these initiatives has managed to reduce the tension. On the contrary, it has gone further and both ERC and EH Bildu have opened the door this Tuesday not to support the decree law.
“Force” the PSOE
The ERC spokesman, Gabriel Rufián, warned this morning that they do not rule out “knock it down” although that could be “harmful” for a left-wing party. But, he pointed out, it is “the only language they understand, unfortunately.” “The PSOE does not do it, it is forced to do it”, he sentenced, a day after the Esquerra management pointed out this possibility for the first time from Barcelona. And in the same situation is EH Bildu.
This completely alters the plans of the Government, which had the support of both groups, although the PP, which has not revealed its position, voted against it. In fact, this certainty that the decree law would come out, regardless of the popular vote, has led Moncloa to disdain the offer to negotiate that Alberto Núñez Feijóo made to Pedro Sánchez, at their first meeting in Moncloa, and which has shaped later in a document sent to the Presidency of the Government.
“Are they going to approve it or not”
The Executive has repeatedly asked for his support, but has not agreed to accept any of his proposals. That position has not changed for the moment, but the Government has begun to look at the PP in the last hours before the unknown of what ERC and EH Bildu are going to vote for. The president himself, in the control session in the Senate, urged the popular to respond “what are you going to do, are you going to approve it or not”after laying out all the measures against the economic effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and “protecting” growth.
The PP spokesman, Javier Maroto, replied that “his suspicion is not understood” to include some of Feijóo’s proposals, which has proposed a tax cut. “If you want our support or need it, it is not serious to ask for it without including any proposal”.
Sánchez defended that he himself demanded that the Galician leader agree on a national response plan to the economic consequences of the war along with a dozen other pacts and “to this day we do not know what the PP is going to do.” This did not prevent the chief executive from refuting the PP’s tax cut. “You have to be consistent,” he said. “When they have governed they have raised them.” But, he stressed he, “it is essential that next Thursday be validated a royal decree law that mitigates the consequences of the war”.
This direct appeal to the popular, much more intense than in previous days, was also made in the conference after the meeting of the Council of Ministers. the spokeswoman, Elizabeth Rodriguezdirectly called the PP to yes because the vocation of consensus “is practiced”, not only preached.
ERC: “It depends on the PSOE”
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ERC has not clarified the meaning of its vote and neither has EH Bildu. Republican sources consulted indicate that what happens “depends on the PSOE.” Remaining, summary, “48 hours”. Among the main ERC claims is that political responsibility be assumed, that is, that someone resign for the alleged use of Pegasus. The Government denies that there has been espionage and maintains that any action by the CNI, in relation to the illegal referendum on 1-O or the riots in Barcelona and the rest of Catalonia in October 2019 after the ‘procès’ ruling, has always had court endorsement.
But tomorrow Wednesday can be a crucial day. Both so that there is a rapprochement between the Government and ERC and so that the path of the PP is opened. Pedro Sanchez, who He didn’t want to talk about the Pegasus thing in the Senate, he assured journalists that he will do so in Congress.