The debate on the state of the nation concludes this Thursday with a giant What about mine?. In total, there will be 138 proposals made by all the parliamentary groups that will be put to a vote this Thursday in the Congress of Deputies and the vast majority of which can hardly go ahead given that the postulates of one and the other are, in some matters, simply opposites.
Hence, the balance of forces, and of support, will be basic to understand where Spain will go from tomorrow. And the core will be knowing if the PSOE will be able to attract the majority of the investiture that, in recent weeks, has shown signs of exhaustion. As well as determining who will support the Executive in the creation of two new taxes - on banks and electricity companies - or in increasing scholarships for students.
The great novelty of the morning has been the offer of the PSOE to the PP to carry out the controversial increase in defense spending and on which Podemos, as well as some other formation on the left, has positioned itself against.
The Socialists have offered the popular an agreement to set the rise at 2% of GDP. All this together with the possibility of "strengthening" the Defense Technological and Industrial Base to favor economic growth and "highly qualified" employment. This would allow Sánchez to advance already in 2022 towards the commitment made with the president of the United States, Joe Biden, during the recent NATO summit held in Madrid.
For the rest, more than two and a half hours have been spent by the spokespersons explaining the content of their motions before the plenary session, which started at ten in the morning and continues with the debate on three legislative initiatives.
These are the Law of Democratic Memory, the reform to empower the CGPJ to elect the magistrates of the Constitutional Court that it is responsible for appointing and finally the validation of the anti-crisis decree with measures to alleviate the effects of the war.
It will be at the end of the debate on these three laws that the vote on the proposed resolutions, which may be amended, will be taken up. In fact, the parliamentary groups have presented 135 amendments to the content of the motions originally registered.
To attract the support it needs, the Socialist Parliamentary Group will also have to stand up to the proposals of its nationalist and leftist partners. Specifically on the withdrawal of legal proceedings against pro-independence politicians or on the tightening of the labor reform in search of improving compensation for dismissal, among others.
Socialist sources estimate that, of their negotiations, "there is none that United We Can not vote for." And, in return, the same sources opened up last night to support the "realistic and feasible" proposals of their partners. Where it is ruled out that it appears, among others, a tax reform that taxes the highest incomes.
There will also be resolutions that will hardly be opposed, such as the "urgent" release of Operation Camp, for the construction of 12,000 new homes in the city of Madrid, of which 60% will be public.
Or "the creation of a complementary scholarship of 100 euros per month between September and December 2022 for all students over 16 years of age who already enjoy a scholarship to pursue their studies, with the aim that no young person is forced to abandon the studies out of necessity.
Without forgetting Early Childhood Education, the Dependency Law, the Memory Law, the working conditions of scholarship holders, the rights of the Elderly... as well as up to 148 votes that will offer a detailed diagnosis of the solidity of the relations between the Government and its investiture partners.
