The PSOE and Sumar have reached a programmatic agreement that would lay the foundations for a future coalition government, if they obtain the necessary support to carry out the investiture. After an intense Monday to finalize the details, both political parties made the agreement public early Tuesday morning through a joint statement.
Among the measures announced, some stand out such as the reduction of working hours without a salary reduction, the increase in the public housing stock, the expansion of paid leave for birth or a tax reform that involves banks and large energy companies more in public spending. . "The government agreement will allow our country to continue growing sustainably and with quality employment, developing policies based on social and climate justice, and expanding rights, feminist achievements and freedoms," reads the text.
The agreement will be ratified today at 12:30 p.m. in a public event to be held at the Reino Sofía Museum with the interventions of the highest representatives of PSOE and Sumar: the acting president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the second vice president and minister of Acting work, Yolanda Díaz.
The calendar for the investiture has November 27 as the deadline to avoid a repeat election. For this reason, the leadership of the PSOE has stepped on the accelerator to begin to close some of the open folders in the negotiations between multiple groups with the parliamentary groups to articulate a new investiture and legislative majority.
Sánchez and Díaz themselves were the first to meet, on October 4, after the leader of the PSOE accepted the commission from King Felipe VI, the day before, to try to assemble a parliamentary majority to support his re-election as President of the Government. At that meeting, both gave each other a month to try to seal a programmatic agreement although there was no need to rush the deadline. María Jesús Montero and Nacho Álvarez have since led the negotiations between the socialists and Sumar.
The reaction of the PP has not been long in coming. The popular ones have been ironic about the "surprise that an agreement has represented" that "had the Spaniards in suspense in recent weeks" in which "the negotiating capacity of Yolanda Díaz" stands out, "inflexible as long as she does not give up her ironclads." principles" in order to repeat the coalition government.
