The rejection of the PNV leaves the key to the labor reform to Ciudadanos and the small parties

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  • The Basque nationalists do not get out of the vote against as the priority of the regional agreements, although the PSOE hopes to convince them

  • Moncloa and Ferraz explicitly open the door to the text continue with the cs competition and without the usual partners, who reject UP

The labor reform enters a dark tunnel. For now, two weeks after the vote in Congress, the numbers are not coming out to the government. Negotiations with the investment partners are still tight. ERC refuses to ratify text ‘as it is“, the PNV demands that the priority of the regional agreements be recorded to get out of its rejection, Bildu adds to this request the improvement of severance pay. Realizing that the ordinary allies are selling their support expensively, the Socialist wing of the Government is already to the right look. citizens, which does offer its free support “if you do not touch a comma” of the agreement. It is already explicitly opening the door to new “majorities”, for a reform that classifies it as “of the State, of the country” to proceed without the help of the left partners. United We can distort the gesture: enter the orange formation into the equation, he warns, it is a “trapThe problem is that the way out with that of Inés Arrimadas, if the PNV clings to the no, would provide a viable landing strip, although risky for the Executive: the vote in the Chamber it would be very stiff. A lot. It will all depend on how small parties like Más País or Compromís tip the scales. Or even UPN.

The willingness of Moncloa and Ferraz to see the decree ratified on February 3 with the votes of Cs has been privately evident in recent days, but this Thursday it was confirmed with crystal clearness by the words of two of the leaders closest to the president, of his maximum confidence: Félix Bolaños and Adriana Lastra. During an informative breakfast in Madrid, the head of the Presidency opted for “broadening majorities” on “fundamental” issues. And one of them is, he argued, the labor reform, essence a matter of “state”, reason why “all the political forces and mainly the PP will also have to be up to the task and support the labor reform in Congress”.

Bolaños and Lastra insist that the priority is to “preserve & rdquor; and” respect & rdquor; the content of the agreement with trade unions and employers

Bolaños, like Lastra later from Ferraz, insisted much would be needed “preserve“Y”respect“The content of the agreement signed with employers and unions. No changes. No subsequent amendments, because if introduced, the consensus with the social agents would inflate, which the PSOE does not want to lose under any circumstances.

The deputy general secretary got the same idea: we must ratify which has blessed businessmen and workers, for it is a “good” reform for both, and that appeal is addressed to “all” groups, without “excluding anyone to support it,” she said, explicitly asking by Cs. Do you prefer the road to the left or right? “It is not about preference. The only preference this government has is that it moves forward the reform because we regain rights and create a new labor framework ”, the number two of the PSOE replied in the affirmative.

Take “no voice” for granted

At the end of Bolaños’ breakfast, statements were made by the president of the PNV, Andoni Ortuzar. Also blunt: his “responsibility” as a party is with Euskadi, and for this reason he will “defend the appearance of regional agreements against the state framework”, a point that the employers completely reject and which the central government also does not like. “If it is not guaranteed, our vote will be no, without tactical abstentions,” the ‘jeltzale’ leader ruled. “Let’s not take any vote for granted,” sources in the Executive said. “The PNV is one of the priority partners with whom we always agree. It is a reliable partner and sooner rather than later we will reach the agreement or agreements we are already working on,” Lastra assured at the party’s federal headquarters.

With the PNV not, the vote would be very difficult for the Executive. It will have to get a maximum of 173 votes against, and will require the yes of the oranges, which does not object

The two were thus spoiling the nationalists. The organization’s secretary, Santos Cerdán, and parliamentary spokesman Héctor Gómez did not travel to Bilbao in vain this Thursday to have a working lunch with Ortuzar and his husband in Congress. Aitor Esteban. The appointment was a result of a previous meeting of the four in Madrid, but as sources who attended the meeting indicated – who were also attended by the leader of the PSE, Eneko Andueza, and his right-hand man, Miguel Ángel Morales – , it happened. an “overview” to various issues, including labor reform.

The decree can be ratified with the PNV’s number, but the vote will be very difficult for the Executive. I will face a maximum of 173 votes against, which would include PP-Foro (89), Vox (52), Junts (4), CUP (2), BNG (1) and three of the regular partners, ERC (13), Bildu (5) and PNV (6) add. ). That is, what would socialists and presses (154 delegates) need at least 174 yes and two abstentions, threshold that can be reached with the essential yes of Cs (9) and PDECat (4) and the help of Teruel Exists (1), Coalición Canaria (1), Nueva Canarias (1), PRC (1), UPN (2 )), More Country (2) and Compromise (1). Withholding the PNV would ease the pressure, as the bills would not be so fair and the list of votes would drop from 173 to 167 seats.

“If a comma is not touched”

The slamming of the door (at least for now) by Ortuzar has served United We Can to warn its fellow cabinet members that the departure of Cs is not possible. Jaume Asens, president of the press group in the lower house, said it “trap“, extended for”torpedo“the investment block. The thesis of the coalition minority partner is that it is dangerous to put Cs in the equation as there are two years left in the legislature and it will be necessary to continue to make social laws that the oranges will not be able to support.

The leaders of the CCOO and UGT accompany the socialists and endorse their message that the text should be ratified without further ado

Lastra responded to that reproach by pointing out that what would lead “astonishing“e”inexplicable“is that the groups did not support the labor reform. Edmundo Bal, spokesman for Cs in Congress, confirmed that his nine deputies would vote in favor of the text” if a comma is not touched. “From the socialist wing of the CEO they defended that they may not “boycott“The yes of the liberals if one considers that there is no negotiation with them and they also do not ask to change anything in the decree. That is, free votes can not be rejected. On TV, in La Sexta, the State Secretary for Employment, Joaquín Pérez Rey confirmed Labor’s “intense contacts” with the partners and expressed his confidence to carry out the reform with them, Yolanda Díaz’s department advising the groups not to touch the decree not, but to channel some of their requests through other initiatives affecting labor law (not the agreement).

The PSOE refuses that alternative. In the afternoon, Bolaños took part in an event organized in Ferraz by the socialist group of the city of Madrid, led by Mercedes González, and insisted that the content could not be touched, because it is a “very unique transaction“: comes from the negotiation of the social agents, not the Council of Ministers. That is, it has already been discussed and agreed, it is not a text that promotes the Executive and that requires the contribution of the groups.” Any change “can the”balances“what sustains it,” he said.

“Not the end point”

In that act, Bolaños was flanked by the general secretaries of CCOO and UGT, unai doof Y Pepe Alvarez. Both were at his breakfast that morning. Throughout the day, both union leaders launched a message that coincided with that of the PSOE: we must not touch on reform.

Sordo and Álvarez remind the groups that there are two years left in the legislature to introduce more measures in the labor framework

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“We ask the parties, and especially the left-wing parties, to think more about the possibility that millions of workers in Spain have an indefinite contract than in the next general election,” Sordo exclaimed, recalling that employers and exchanges “interested” agents “in any change of the labor market. This reform “not the end point“,” there is a two-year legislature to make labor changes, “he said, trying to convince the partners.

“Is a much worked agreement Alvarez agreed. We would like it to be approved without parliamentary processing [posterior]”, because the text is the result of” hundreds of hours of work “on three sides, and in any case” at another time “more measures can be approved. The head of the UGT praised the Executive Committee’s driving force in these months message, which the unions also repeated privately to the groups in recent weeks, was capital for the PSOE, in support of its warning that the text could not be touched, not only because the president did not want it, they insisted to, but because he rejects it.the bosses and also the representatives of the workers.



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