The calendar for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez is beginning to tighten, with November 27 as the deadline to avoid a repetition of the general elections, and the PSOE leadership wants to begin to close some of the multiple open folders in the negotiations that They maintain multiple bands with the parliamentary groups to articulate a new investiture and legislative majority. Firstly, with Sumar, the formation led by Yolanda Díaz, to be able to form a new progressive coalition government.
Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz themselves were the first to meet, on October 4, after the PSOE leader accepted the King's commission 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. María Jesús Montero and Nacho Álvarez have since led the negotiations between the PSOE and Sumar.
And in the leadership of the PSOE they are trying to seal this week, in hours or at most in days, imminently in any case, the coalition pact with Sumar, which could be staged with a new public meeting between Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz to sign the agreement. “It will go quickly, very quickly,” confirm socialist sources. “The accelerator is pressed,” they say.
Sumar, however, does not share the optimistic assessment of the situation. Although Ernest Urtasun, spokesperson for the organization, still hopes to seal the agreement within the expected time frame -before the end of the month, that is, this week-, at this time of Monday, "fundamental issues for Sumar" remain unresolved. such as the reduction of the working day, the reform of dismissal, the taxation of banks and large energy companies, or the deployment and advancement of the Housing law, with the creation of the price observatory and the regulation of vacation rentals in the urban centers, which was outside the current norm, as Urtasun explained in a press conference.
The enthusiasm that the socialists claim to have leaked in the face of an imminent agreement is interpreted by Sumar, according to party sources, as a way to put pressure on the negotiation so that Yolanda Díaz agrees to sign. But they insist that the latest PSOE proposals did not include any significant progress on issues that for the plurinational group are central to the agreement, in particular everything related to the labor and fiscal portfolio.
In Sumar they also want the agreement with the PSOE to incorporate the recognition of the Palestinian State, as a sine qua non condition for a de-escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. A position that the president himself, Pedro Sánchez, is in favor of, but that Sumar wants to be carried out immediately, as Congress mandated in 2014, almost unanimously, and regardless of when the twenty-seven proceed to that recognition. EU member states.
However, as Urtasun himself has admitted, the meetings continue and the negotiations are very intense, so they hope to announce the final agreement this week.
