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24/10/2023 a las 07:40
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The call for the consultation, mandatory and binding, will come from a Federal Committee that will establish the bases and calendar
Ferraz will limit the consultation on militancy to the programmatic agreement of the coalition government. The socialists will adjust their consultation to what the party’s statutes state, with no intention of including allusions to other possible parliamentary agreements or their contents, such as the amnesty in the case of Junts and ERC. The call, mandatory and binding, will come from a Federal Committee. Although it is not necessary to convene the highest body of the party between congresses, it would be enough for the executive to establish the bases and calendar by having these powers, the leadership thus wants to provide greater support to the negotiations for the investiture. prior organic debate.
The management emphasizes that the consultation can be carried out in a few days after it is given the green light. Its intention is precisely to accelerate it and use the role of the different socialist groups to develop a process in which, in 2019 census was 178,600 members between PSOE, PSC and their respective youth organizations. Four years ago, ten days passed from the time the pre-agreement was signed between Pedro Sánchez and the then leader of Unidas Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, until the socialists placed the ballot boxes. Five since the executive called the consultation, compressing both the information campaign and pre-registration for electronic voting into this period.
In that consultation, both telematic and in-person voting were enabled to answer a very specific question: “Do you support the agreement reached between the PSOE and Unidas Podemos to form a progressive coalition government?” Implicitly, the 92% of the militants who gave their support The agreement also enabled the management to try to close the rest of the agreements with other parliamentary groups necessary to move forward with the investiture. Mainly, the abstention of ERC.
Adding is the easiest piece to fit into the investiture puzzle, as the socialists recognize when they assure that “We have been understanding each other for five years”. The most complicated, on the other hand, is that of Junts, which during the last legislature placed itself on the strategy of confrontation with the Government.
All of this suggests that, like four years ago, the leadership will call for a consultation with the militancy for the coalition agreement without first having closed the pacts with the rest of the potential partners necessary to carry out the investiture. With the investiture date still up in the air and the intention of not setting it until it is tied, the calendar continues to burn with the limit established on November 27. If a government is not formed beforehand, coinciding with the period of 60 days from the first investiture vote, the Cortes Generales will be automatically dissolved.
The agreed program will serve as a guide for government action if Pedro Sánchez manages to carry out his investiture. An agreement that is exhibited with a marked social and progressive tone. Also with the Labor framework, identified with Sumar, and for which the negotiators of the party led by Yolanda Díaz have fought until the end.
In the negotiations, the PSOE has attempted to draw up more generic measures so as not to distance Junts or PNV from a legislative pact. The complex parliamentary arithmetic that comes out of the polls, which requires the support of potential members in all votes, reinforces the need to develop a government program that does not compromise any support. Mainly, those of posconvergents and jeltzales, the most conservative formations in economic and labor matters. There is room for negotiation to fit all the pieces together.
Federal Committee
Regarding the government program, the spokesman for the Basque nationalists in Congress, Aitor Esteban, already opted after meeting with Sánchez to seek mechanisms for “development of the legislature” with a more focused orientation of the Government’s measures and, therefore, agreed upon with all potential partners. “We have to know how to distinguish what can be approved”he warned, already looking at the horizon of the legislature.
At the next meeting of the federal committee, the leader of the socialists, Pedro Sánchez, is expected to state his position on the negotiations. Mainly, about the amnesty law, he initially assured that he would do so after receiving the order from the head of state for his investiture and, later, after the round of contacts with the parliamentary groups.
Despite the focus on the amnesty and the negotiations with Junts, the majority of PSOE federations agree in denying that neither among their bases nor among their voters is there any special concern for an investiture pact with the independentists under the premise of amnesty to the prosecuted by the ‘procés’. In Ferraz’s direction, the impact of the amnesty is compared with that of the pardons to minimize its electoral cost and frame it in the narrative of dejudicialization. That Catalonia is better than in 2017 thanks to the measures in favor of “coexistence”.
He territorial debate generates a more transversal suspicion than the amnesty in the socialist ranks. With the debate on the State model leading to territorial asymmetries at a time when both Junts and PNV have put on the table the need to overcome the current framework and recognize Catalonia and Euskadi as nations. Precisely, the leader of the Andalusian socialists, Juan Espadas, tried to reassure his people last Thursday in the General Commission of the Autonomous Communities of the Senate by defending a “symmetrical and not asymmetrical” autonomous process. That is, “equal opportunities and peaceful coexistence between territories as a goal of that autonomous, shared and non-exclusive processwhere we all fit.”
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