The reduction of the working day has been a headache in the Council of Ministers, but, finally, Pedro Sánchez has allowed Yolanda Díaz to win another internal battle. Add by languishing electorally, the Second Vice President claims political oxygen and the 37.5 hours per week are a breath of air. His star measure of the legislature closer to materializing. At the moment, it is not clear if what will take place will be a success or a failure, but in Moncloa they have decided to let the ball run and advance to the following screen: that of the Congress of Deputies. There it will no longer the reluctance of the socialists that will have to be overcome, but will play with a much more rocky partner: Junts.
In contacts in Switzerland that the PSOE maintains with Carles Puigdemont, this has already made clear its resistance to support a measure for which the votes of its deputies are essential. In this context, socialists do not want to accuse added wear and less for an initiative whose paternity is to add, although if fruitful, it will also end up claiming as their own. Therefore, it has been allowed to be Diaz who takes the initiative of the negotiation alone. There is no forecast to go for your aid. Even the president of the Government wishes him luck in the Council of Ministers that on Tuesday approved the measure, aware that the best conviction efforts will be needed so that Juns desist from the amendment to the totality that he has already announced to knock down the reduction of the working day.
Negotiation with Puigdemont
In Moncloa they are not optimistic and, although the vice president argues that “there is room” for the agreement, in the government they already prepare the argument to portray those who end up sentencing the initiative. “They will have to explain it to the Spaniards,” They point out from the socialist part, anticipating a bad end. “Exit expensive to vote against people,” they have as they add, already being reasons to present themselves to public opinion with a story of victims and guilty. The vice president argues that the debate is already won on the street, even if she does not have the votes in Congress.
That is why, in the first instance, Sumar has tried to attract citizens. First with a tour throughout the country and now with a collection of signatures. That is the kind face and that more courage contributes to the party. The part that has already begun to give headaches is the relative to parliamentary negotiation. And it is that the failure of the law would be directly attributable to Vice President Yolanda Díaz. In order to prevent it from derailing, the minister pilot the negotiations directly with Carles Puigdemont, who has already taken the first “no” by phone. A rejection that in the surroundings of the vice president reduce and ensure that it is a “maximum position” by the independentists. They are optimistic that Junts ends up removing the amendment to the totality he has presented in Congress. At the moment, Puigdemont maintains the wall and denounces that “Díaz has not sat down to negotiate.” In the independence environment they believe that the Government will end up drawing the law with the PP.
The truth is that, given the forecast that parliamentary processing is truncated, the vice president has ordered to multiply the contacts. To the communication that she herself maintains with Puigdemont is added the cooperation of the technical teams of the Ministry of Labor with those of Junts. In order to unblock the negotiations, Díaz has opened to dialogue with small and medium enterprises to apply the reduction of day. “There are no red lines,” they say. The law is left or not, Díaz will continue in the government. The context is not the same as when it was about to ship the labor reform. Now, Díaz, with a project without force, would not have a voice out of Moncloa.