In this new legislature, Pedro Sánchez will not have a vote left over to take any step he intends to take, which will force him to negotiate and agree, inside and outside his Government, every move.
Sánchez acknowledged this yesterday during the appearance he took part in in Moncloa to take stock of the year and raise the prospects for the new school year, after the Council of Ministers approved, not without intense prior negotiations, the new omnibus decree of measures anti-crisis "This is a Government that, both by conviction and by necessity, is obliged to speak with all the parliamentary groups", admitted Sánchez.
"It has been very hectic", he confessed. But he is confident that Congress will validate the new decree, as he assured that it includes "in large part" the demands raised by the parliamentary majority that supports the legislature.
Sánchez claimed his ability to negotiate and agree, despite the parliamentary minority. And he warned that he is "committed to dialogue, as required and demanded by the political plurality and territorial diversity of Spain".
The Spanish Government, he assured, "will continue to make the agreement its raison d'être". "We will do what we have done these past five years, which is to dialogue with everyone, negotiate until exhaustion and agree with all the political formations that want to agree," he said.
But the fact that Junts per Catalunya, with seven indispensable deputies, already threatened to vote against some "Macedonian" decrees that, in their opinion, regulate "unconnected" matters that they make the political position difficult, since they are voted together.
The president, despite this, insisted on his ability to agree, also with Catalan independence, "to normalize the political situation inherited from the previous administration in a very important territory of the country such as Catalonia".
But, regarding the year-end speech delivered the day before by Pere Aragonès, in which he placed 2024 as the year in which the negotiation of a self-determination referendum will open, Sánchez replied: "The we know the proposals of independence, there is nothing new under the sky".
He insisted, instead, on the need to "open a new phase of dialogue, of normalization of the political situation in Catalonia". And this phase, in his opinion, goes through the measures that are taken "at the level of legislative power, with the amnesty law", in addition to "looking for a meeting point between the maximalist proposals of independence, which is to hold a self-determination referendum, which the Government does not share or accept".
And also a new regional financing system, which has been waiting for an update for ten years. On this issue, Sánchez assured: "We will talk with Catalonia and with each and every one of the autonomous communities of our country".
Sánchez showed his determination, in this new legislature, to "consolidate the progress achieved". The coalition Government between the PSOE and Sumar, he assured, "will never abdicate its main task, which is to improve and protect the lives of the majority of citizens with courageous measures, when and where necessary."
The president also vindicated his economic management - "We are on the right track" - with figures for growth and job creation that, he said, refute all the prophets of chaos and all the "catastrophic prophecies" of the right. Figures that, in his opinion, demonstrate "the consistency" of his Executive. "A clean Government, without a shadow of corruption", he emphasized.
And he announced that tomorrow, after returning from the visit to Iraq that he undertook yesterday, he will have a "government crisis", as he called it, to replace the first vice-president and Minister of Economy, Nadia Calviño, who he will now assume the presidency of the European Investment Bank (EIB).
Sánchez was "delighted" to have managed to agree even with the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to reopen negotiations to renew the CGPJ, now with the mediation of the European Commission. But he denounced the "asymmetric polarization" he observes in the public debate in Spain, and which he attributed to the right.
"Here there are people who insult and people who are insulted. Political parties that are besieged and political leaders that urge the siege”, he criticized. The logic of the PP and Vox is to "demobilize" the electorate and generate "disaffection" among citizens towards politics, he said. "The political project of the right and the ultra-right is anger, insult and frustration for electoral objectives that were not met", said etzibar. "The level of disqualifications and insults reached by the opposition is not acceptable", he warned. And he singled it out in the insult that Isabel Díaz Ayuso directed at him from the congressional guest gallery itself: "It's absolutely despicable", she condemned.
