"Has so much ever been achieved in exchange for so little? In my career I have never known a similar case". an abstention in the validation of a decree, the PNB noted a "historic success". On Wednesday, Junts was the protagonist. "In three minutes, what was impossible becomes possible". Vice-president María Jesús Montero define how to "explore the perimeter" in search of counterparties to add Junts' votes; for Alberto Núñez Feijóo it is "extortion". The result, a field without doors for Carles Puigdemont.
How does the transfer of competences in immigration to Catalonia fall in the sack of Puigdemont? In Junts they claim that a "simple" negotiation is complicated by the "forms" of the Moncloa. They receive the documentation of the decrees on the night of December 22 and announce their approval on the 27; the spending ceiling, it doesn't even communicate. There is a failed meeting in the Moncloa complex the day before the vote. It is Santos Cerdán's trace that puts the situation on track in added time in exchange for weight counterparts that were not in the script. "Immigration, now, was out of the question", they admit to Junts.
Months ago Junts had conveyed the need to leave the coffee lane for everyone and indicated that the way was article 150.2 of the Constitution or the recognition of historical rights. Puigdemont had already put the focus on immigration management in his conference on September 5 and Junts lost a vote in Parliament on the issue with the votes of the PSC and ERC. The post-convergents aspire to the delegation of powers and resources to develop a "comprehensive policy"; the central Government offers a management commission. It is a figure provided for in the law on the legal regime of public administrations that Moncloa now uses to transfer the execution of infrastructures. The offer is rejected and the agreement is reached around the formula of the transfer by way of 150.2.
The agreement is today a simple statement, but Junts has managed to remove from the drawer a tool that was only used in 1997 to hand over the powers of Traffic to the Mossos - under the presidency of José María Aznar - and was launched without success for the calling of referendums.
The PSOE and Junts are now aware that the rope cannot be pulled in every vote and will work on a conflict resolution protocol. They also already have another meeting in Geneva of the negotiating table with the mediator.
Together, he implemented a new strategy. Without a legislative "phone list", the perimeters are fuzzy and turn the budget vote into a ticking time bomb. "We don't need to save any blocks", remember the post-convergents. Together he is Pedro Sánchez's freest partner. The PNB aims to remain in the Lehendakaritza with the votes of the PSE; Bildu continues with its strategy of political approval, it could only govern with the socialist votes already committed to the PNB, but they have helped them add Pamplona. And ERC... needs to finish the year with the PSC voting its budgets, despite the needs of Salvador Illa's story. The Catalan socialists are suffering from the wear and tear of the amnesty and now the contradictions of the agreement with Junts en immigration.
Minister Bolaños is working overtime to calm spirits at ERC. The Republicans maintain their road map and strive to turn the agreements exhibited by Junts into simple "statements". "They pay in advance", they say. The management claims that the Puigdemonts do not get electoral income from their tug-of-war with the Central Government while they work to offer an image of reliability. The negotiation table between governments is scheduled for the end of March and they hope to present details.
The next six months are key for the legislature. Agree and comply. The commitment that Erkoreka boasted in 2011 continues 14 years later in the air. The prevalence of regional agreements over state ones declined on Wednesday due to the no of Podemos to Yolanda Díaz.
