Pedro Sanchez This Friday, it faced the 46th anniversary of the Constitution seeking to make an impact from the first hour with the promotion of a reform of the Magna Carta that shields abortion or the revaluation of pensions, banners of the left, but his words went practically unnoticed in the halls of Congress because all attention was focused on the judicial cases that now corner the President of the Government and, to a lesser extent, in the Budgets, which are going to be the litmus test of the legislature.
Furthermore, reforming the Constitution is unfeasible right now. since the leaders of the PP themselves have rejected that it is necessary to make changes right now, nor do they believe that the right climate exists: in fact, they see Sánchez’s words as “fireworks” to cover up their judicial and parliamentary problems. Without the PP, there is not enough majority for constitutional reform.
Sánchez’s weakness, therefore, has been at the center of the festive day in Congress. However, The President of the Government, in conversation with journalists, has tried to appear whole and project strength: While almost everyone sees judicial problems due to corruption, he appears “calm” because his Government is “clean” despite the fact that Víctor de Aldama begins to provide evidence about Ángel Víctor Torres and María Jesús Montero’s chief of staff, Carlos Moreno; While the specter of the budget extension and the electoral advance gains more strength, he maintains that he has a rope until 2027. The Accounts are essential for Sánchez to survive in Moncloa because he has never resisted a Government with a double extension.
Sánchez explained that The idea is to present the Budgets at the beginning of the year, whether the spending ceiling is approved or not.. If the Government does not manage to approve the budget stability objectives because Junts maintains until the end its demand to deliver 12,000 million extra euros of spending capacity to the autonomies, it will resort to the deficit path that is already in force and that benefits Moncloa already. that forces the Communities and City Councils to make a surpluss.
“We are waiting for the Esquerra congress to end,” he said, in reference to the vote on December 15 that must elect the next leader of the Republicans. Republican sources insist that they are not going to negotiate anything until after December 15 because the party will take one direction or another depending on who the next president of the party is.
In any case, Republicans are in favor of negotiating the Accounts. Sources from Junts, on the other hand, predict that the difficulties in approving the Budgets will be “100 times greater” than those of the tax reform due to incompatibilities: in this sense, Podemos already insisted yesterday that it will maintain its demands in this regard. of housing rental until the end, which will surely make an agreement between all the partners of the investiture unviable because the post-convergents reject price limitations.
Sánchez’s weakness in this legislature is that he cannot give in to everyone at the same time because there are obvious incompatibilities between partners. In the PP they take it for granted that the Budgets can go ahead. “It will depend on Junts,” they say.. The parliamentary weakness is ideological in nature, since the partners do not seem to be going in to ask for explanations for the corruption. The judicial weakness lies in the fact that Sánchez is incapable of controlling the agenda and that greatly wears out his Government.. However, he still seems optimistic and, in fact, believes that the judicial siege is going to “turn against the right” and predicts that he will regain municipal and regional power in 2027.
However, in the PP they are already preparing for the end of the cycle. Although they do not believe that Sánchez activates the red button, they do affirm forcefully that the legislature “He doesn’t give more of himself,” according to the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.in informal conversation with journalists. That is why he confessed to being focused on preparing the “alternative” to the “level of inaction” on the part of Moncloa. Thus, in the face of the judicial siege on the Government, the popular leader focuses on Sánchez’s partners. “It will last as long as the partners want,” he assured.and then warn that “each person will have to see the impact that the decision to support Sánchez has on their electorate.”
In the PP, they also seek to differentiate the two leaderships that exist today in Spain and charge against the “anxiety that inhabits La Moncloa.” “I don’t need to be breaking up the country to be in the Government one more day,” Feijóo was sincere.who stressed that he does not have to worry about the “judicial agenda.”
The day of the Constitution has once again made Sánchez’s problems visible both in Congress and in the courts and, above all, the difficulties he already has in hiding them: probably, not long ago, his desire to reform the Magna Carta would have generated rivers of ink, but today, it barely serves to eclipse the harsh reality that surrounds him. Sánchez, against the ropes, also observes how his main partner, Sumar is going through a moment of maximum weakness which could end up dragging the party to a minimum in Congress: its leader, Yolanda Díaz, did not attend as she was supposedly returning from Mexico. Nor did Santiago Abascal attend, as always, only present at the raising of the flag..
Feijóo ignores Sánchez and gives an ultimatum to Mazón for DANA
The distance between Feijóo and Sánchez is such that They didn’t even greet each other in Congressdespite being practically next to each other in the groups with journalists. The opposition leader justified himself by assuring that he had not had the opportunity as he had been surrounded by informants in the Lost Steps room all the time. Yes, he was able to greet the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortizwhose resignation the PP has demanded on several occasions after his accusation in the case of the partner of the president of the Community of Madrid.
The president of the PP wanted to send a message, once again, to the president of the Valencian Community, Carlos Mazón, about his continuity due to his management before the DANA. Although this week Génova has supported Mazón with the visit of Miguel Tellado to Valencia, Feijóo gave a clear warning: «Genova’s decision (about Mazón) will be linked to what the neighbors think»he confessed. That is, Mazón’s future at the head of the Generalitat will be based on upcoming surveys, which will shed light on citizens’ perception of Mazón. Besides, Feijóo wanted to emphasize yesterday that what happened in Valencia was “an emergency like the top of a pine tree”.
Armengol takes advantage of 6D and asks to open the reform of the Constitution
Francina Armengol followed in the footsteps of Pedro Sánchez and also tried to open the melon of constitutional reform. In this sense, he did praise the Constitution, since, in his opinion, it is “durable, solid” and brought “the most important transformation” of Spain, but he also said that “it is not immovable.” The president of Congress, in the traditional speech on the occasion of 6D in the Lower House, took up the reform of article 49 that has eliminated the term “diminished” to open the door to more changes, since that is “confirmation” that We must “listen to the demands” of citizens and “undertake” them. “That is why each parliamentarian exists, to exercise dialogue in order to improve people’s lives,” he said, thus urging it to be updated. However, he also wanted to recognize that “it is more important to comply with the Constitution than to reform it. “It is possible to modify points through great consensus without breaking our essential rules of coexistence,” he added.
Illa returns the Generalitat to the celebration of the Magna Carta
The anecdote of the 46th anniversary of the Constitution must include, without a doubt, the return of the Generalitat to the celebrations of the Magna Carta in Congress. Salvador Illa was in the Lower House yesterday and recorded almost a milestone since, since 2009, the Generalitat was not present. Since then, Artur Mas, Carles Puigdemont, Quim Torra and Pere Aragonès have always supported this event. José Montilla, who was also in Congress yesterday, was the last Catalan president to participate in the tribute.
“The best way to defend the Constitution is not to appropriate it,” Illa said in statements in the Lower House. In fact, Illa was the only socialist regional president and was surrounded by four barons of the PP. The president of the Generalitat highlighted that “a lot of progress” has been made with the Constitution, although he also warned that there is still “more” and pointed out the protection of the “right to housing.” “I am happy to be here today,” added the Catalan president.
Pumpido must respond to the Amnesty threat
It is the first anniversary of the Constitution that shares a photo, which is incompatible due to its principles, with Amnesty. six months ago, Congress gave the green light to the law that erases the crimes of the process and thanks to which the President of the Government ensured that he remained in power thanks to the votes of his pro-independence partners.
Precisely, in the commemoration of the ConstitutionThe president of the Constitutional Court, Cándido Conde Pumpido, was therewho must resolve the appeals of the Amnesty Law, after the TC refused to remove him from the debate on the appeals. Specifically, the TC will accept for processing before the end of the year all the appeals presented by the communities against the amnesty law – the 14 signed by regions governed by the PP and the one registered by Castilla-La Mancha. Besides, Four unconstitutionality issues and 16 unconstitutionality appeals were presented: one signed by PP deputies and 15 from regional governments and assemblies.