Spain’s political agenda is becoming increasingly clear in these first phases of the legislative period, when the government is still being finalized, which will continue this Tuesday in the Council of Ministers with some second-level appointments. The coalition of PSOE and Sumar is eager to change the third now to get out of the mono-issue of amnesty, which is obviously a burden for the government, as seen in the 40 dB poll for EL PAÍS and Cadena SER published on this Monday and start talking about their progressive agenda.
Ministries are already discussing internally important measures to repeal them as quickly as possible, preferably in December, and this Tuesday the government will take the first step and restore the parity law that was left in the air with the early elections. This regulation obliges not only the management level to have equality with at least 40% of both sexes – which is already happening because Pedro Sánchez has decided to do so, although it is not mandatory – but also for the boards of directors of large Spanish companies. a more delicate matter.
Announcing this reform, Sánchez emphasized that although the PP only wanted to talk about amnesty, the government had to develop a whole progressive agenda, with increasing pensions or the minimum wage as important milestones. In an interview on Cadena SER, Sánchez insisted that the amnesty was a worthwhile cost since the alternative was a PP and Vox government. Meanwhile, Vice President Yolanda Díaz, leader of Sumar, also offered an interview in La Sexta to talk about her management initiatives, not only the increase in the minimum wage for 2024 – she said that inflation of 3.8% is the minimum, that we must achieve at the beginning – but also about improving unemployment benefits, which he is arguing about with Nadia Calviño, Vice President for Economic Affairs. Sánchez appeared to be closer to Díaz on the issue.
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In any case, the government is committed to returning to the economic discussion as quickly as possible, even in internal debates within the coalition like this one, to talk about management and exit from the amnesty and the pacts with the Catalan Independents with an international auditor as the only ones Matter of political agenda, precisely the most unpleasant for the executive and the one monopolized by the opposition.
While the PSOE and Sumar try to focus the debate on the management that has brought them the most returns and, in their vision, is exactly what justifies amnesty to their voters as a necessary cost to be able to make progressive policies PSOE and Sumar the debate PP It takes the toughest positions and tries to take maximum advantage of the attrition of the government that the amnesty polls detect.
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This Monday was an intense day politically, and on the same day there were interviews not only with Sánchez and Díaz, which is very unusual, but also with former President José María Aznar, who has returned to a major exhibition medium after a period in the background sometimes even overshadows the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo. Aznar marked the line to be taken in the conservative world three weeks ago when he declared that Sánchez was “a danger to democracy” and called on all sectors that reject the amnesty, not only political but also legal and other areas of power. : “He who can do it, let him do it.” This Monday, Aznar went even further: “The disgrace to which the Spanish people are exposed is unbearable.” “You can no longer drag a country through the mud.” Statements of this kind led Yolanda Díaz to address the former president directly and call on the leader of the PP to distance himself from him. “The problem is that Feijóo is the leader of the PP and is kidnapped by Vox and Aznar, who is involved in the destructive theses of our country,” said the vice president.
Almost all former presidents have been given a strong spotlight in recent weeks, and while José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is a mainstay of the PSOE in the strategy to declare amnesty, the other three reject it. Sánchez cited Aznar, who was simultaneously giving his interview on Antena 3, as an example of what he understands as the PP’s hypocrisy. The popular criticizes the fact that the PSOE in Switzerland met with junts with an international expert to discuss the political conflict in Catalonia. But Aznar, as Sánchez recalled in SER, negotiated with ETA in Switzerland at a very complicated moment, in 1999, when the gang was in full murderous activity. Sánchez stressed that the amnesty corresponds to a “noble goal” because it serves a progressive government and also seeks a final solution to the conflict in Catalonia.
Sánchez went further than ever and criticized the PP for its blockade of the General Council of Justice, which celebrated its fifth anniversary this Monday, linking it to the controversial concept of lawfare (war or judicial harassment of a group) adopted by the PSOE has a pact with Junts. “Nowadays there is a lot of talk about lawfare, which means the politicization of the judiciary. “There is no case more paradigmatic than this kidnapping, in which the PP overthrew the judiciary,” he explained. “So there is lawfare?” the journalist Àngels Barceló asked him. “Of course, this is a paradigmatic case of the politicization of the judiciary,” the president replied.
The controversy was later complicated because the PP insisted that there would be no renewal of the CGPJ electoral system if there was no reform, although that party later clarified that both things would happen at the same time, while in Brussels in a joint press conference both Félix Bolaños and EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders insisted that the blockade would no longer be maintained. Reynders was clearer than ever: first renewal and then reform of the norm. This is exactly what was agreed last year in the last attempt at renewal: PSOE and PP had even drawn up a joint bill that they wanted to present to Congress, in which they gave the new CGPJ the mandate to propose formulas to Congress so that the judges had one in the renewal greater weight. But at the last moment, when everything was finalized, the PP backed out and negotiations have not progressed since then. The blockade continues and the volume of Spanish politics does not decrease, but the government is already fully operational and hopes to radically change the agenda with progressive policies that will generate completely different debates than the amnesty.
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