2023-10-24 07:56:03
After negotiating until late into the night, it is now official: PSOE and Sumar have closed a Government pact this Tuesday, as both had anticipated before the general elections. They do so despite the fact that both have seven days to exhaust the deadline they gave themselves to negotiate, the end of October. Just as in other negotiations it was decided to stretch the time until the end, on this occasion both have chosen not to reach the last hour with unresolved obstacles.
The negotiation was being finalized this weekend with several issues that clouded the negotiation. The reduction in the working day focused all the attention and made Sumar raise his voice against the PSOE, which had already taken the pact for granted hours before. The order in Ferraz was to accelerate the negotiations and close the table with Sumar, purely on content and now focus on the most complicated, the agreement that must be forged to get the “yes” from Carles Puigdemont’s party to, So yes, having the investiture and the Government assured.
In Sumar, however, they cooled off this rush and asked the majority partner to join the negotiation to open the debate on the reduction of the working day, to which they denounced that the PSOE refused. The signing of the immediate pact, which both groups gratified in a statement, gives oxygen to both Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz. “This agreement occurs before the deadline that the PSOE and Sumar had set to achieve it. This responds to the clear message that citizens sent in the elections of July 23: the rejection of a government of the right and the extreme right. in Spain, and the mandate to continue advancing in rights and freedoms”.
With this quick pact, the leader of the PSOE manages to move the focus away from the negotiation of the amnesty law and, the leader of Sumar manages to capitalize on the attention and her negotiating strength by being able to present herself as key in the coalition by including one of her great promises in the electoral campaign, all while in Podemos they accused her of having reached an “insufficient” pact.
This is a programmatic agreement for the formation of a new progressive coalition government in Spain, as highlighted in a joint statement, in which they point out that the agreement signed by Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz will serve for “a four-year legislature.” years” and “that will allow our country to “continue to grow sustainably and with quality employment, developing policies based on social and climate justice, and expanding rights, feminist achievements and freedoms.”
The agreement, without reading the fine print once it was staged with a joint photo of the top leaders of each party at the Reina Sofía Museum this Tuesday at noon, includes measures fought for by those of Díaz. “The objective of full employment for the next legislature will be a priority that will permeate the entire agreement.” In addition to the job reduction without salary reduction, it will include the “immediate” implementation of a shock plan against youth unemployment, the reinforcement of the public system, the increase in the public housing stock, the upward review of the objectives of the Climate Change Law, the expansion of paid birth leave, the universalization of education from 0 to 3 years and a “fair” tax reform that makes banks and large energy companies contribute to public spending.
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