Podemos is resuming the course in the same way it ended: increasing the pressure on the Government and leaving its support for the General State Budget and the rest of the Executive’s projects up in the air.
The Government’s agreement with the Popular Party to unblock the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary caused serious unrest among the Executive’s main allies in the Congress of Deputies and, in fact, Podemos has made a special “causa bellis” out of this matter.
For the purple party, the legislature has been “dead” since then. A mantra that the purple party repeats with the aim of subduing the Government, despite the fact that they themselves, when they were in Moncloa, had signed the same pact to renew the body of judges. The party seeks visibility and to rise as an opposition to the Government, while organizing its reconstruction to try to be, once again, the hegemonic party to the left of the PSOE after the fight with Sumar.
Thus, the party begins the course trying to put the President of the Government against the ropes and not taking for granted any support from the left-wing bloc. A situation that further complicates the devilish arithmetic that the Executive must count on for the rest of the legislature, especially in the midst of the challenge of Junts and ERC. Yesterday, the Secretary of Organization and spokesperson for Podemos, Pablo Fernández, declared the “progressive legislature finished in the face of the inaction” of the PSOE, which has preferred – he denounces – “to consummate the pact of shame” by agreeing with the PP the renewal of the Judiciary. The purple party already sees an extension of the Budgets in the moment before the Executive takes the spending ceiling to Congress again. The party warns that it will not allow “even one cut” if negotiations for the public accounts begin, reports Ep. The formation, whose votes are vital for the Treasury to be able to approve new budgets, did not clarify what its position would be. “First we have to see if the PSOE has the will to present a budget, because I think that the PSOE is in a completely ‘business as usual’ attitude. I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t present a budget,” he warned.
The spokesman also did not want to reveal what the purple party’s position will be today regarding the requests for the appearance in Congress of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero. “Beyond the requests for appearances,” the “problem is that the PSOE has killed progressive legislation,” he criticized.
The leader criticised that this year the Government’s “inaction” is “absolute” and that “no measure will be taken in terms of transformation or progress in rights in this country”. He contrasted the situation that, in his opinion, occurred when Podemos was in the Government – in an attack on Sumar. “Podemos forced the PSOE to take left-wing and progressive measures,” he said. “There is a reason why the Socialist Party kicked Podemos out of the Government, because it had no interest in having an ally that was uncomfortable for them.”