In Moncloa they assume that the open war with the political and judicial right, which keeps both the Constitutional Court (TC) and the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) fractured and blocked, poisons the political scene and affects Spanish democracy very negatively. and their institutions. But Pedro Sánchez himself warns that Alberto Núñez Feijóo is turning against a strategy that, in his opinion, encouraged by the toughest sector of the Popular Party, leads to a serious institutional crisis. "The PP has shot itself in the foot from the electoral point of view," say the socialist strategists.
The big problem that the PSOE has before the new electoral cycle, as they admit, is the demobilization of the progressive voter. In addition to the division in the entire electoral space located to their left, whose cohesion they see essential to be able to add government majorities in the regional elections in May and in the general ones scheduled for December of next year. "But the left is perceiving this offensive by the political and judicial right as an aggression, and it is mobilizing, which is what we needed," the socialist strategists point out.
The Trumpist strategy of confrontation and tension that the PSOE attributes to the PP, with a Feijóo whom Sánchez already sees as totally "camouflaged" with Isabel Díaz Ayuso after blowing up the pactista and moderate image with which he assumed the reins of the main opposition party ago Just eight months, it would thus provide huge electoral gains for the left, according to his analysis.
For now, the escalation of the political and judicial right, which led the majority conservative sector of the TC to paralyze the parliamentary process of the legislative reform to promote its own renewal, did align and regroup the coalition government between the PSOE and Unidas Podemos with the formations of the investiture block. And all of them will now join forces to circumvent the PP's veto and try to unblock the renewal of the body of constitutional guarantees.
The PSOE and Unidas Podemos want to join the largest possible number of groups of the legislature block to support and even jointly register the bill that will recover the two amendments whose processing paralyzed the TC in the Senate.
Sánchez delimits this initiative only to be able to guarantee the replacement of the magistrates of the TC with the mandate expired -which would provide a progressive orientation, in line with the parliamentary one, to the highest interpreter of the Magna Carta-, and rules out incorporating into it a new attempt to also force the renewal of the CGPJ without the concurrence of the PP. "There is no other equation."
In any case, the spokespersons for Unidas Podemos and the investiture groups – from Esquerra to the PNV, EH Bildu, Más País or Compromís – reached the same conclusion at the emergency meeting they held last Tuesday.
In Moncloa they emphasize that all these groups are satisfied with recovering the two amendments paralyzed by the TC –which already added a large absolute majority of 184 yeses in the vote in Congress last week– in the new bill for the reform judicial. However, they already know that haste is not a good adviser and they want to wait to hear the legal arguments of the Constitutional Court to suspend the process in the Senate, to shield the new bill from future appeals by the PP to try to knock it down.
However, in Moncloa they foresee that the initiative of the groups could be registered in Congress as early as next week.
