The PSOE is in no hurry, but Sumar is. The coalition Government successfully tried the good cop, bad cop game during the previous legislature in many of the more difficult negotiations with the complex investiture majority and in almost all of them it did so successfully. In front of the progressive and pro-independence bloc, Unides Podemos cultivated better relations than the socialists, and Sumar today has the heritage and the agenda that he has decided to put into operation immediately to guarantee the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, that is, to guarantee the revalidation of the coalition government.
On Monday, barely 12 hours after the election count, Sumar's spokesman, Ernest Urtasun, announced that these contacts would be launched, and the night before yesterday he confirmed that they are already underway, while reserving the content of the talks, which are being held with a mutual commitment of maximum discretion: "Now is the time to dialogue, negotiate and find a way to reach some kind of agreement, and above all to maintain a certain degree of confidentiality so he is in the negotiations in the next few days", pointed out Urtasun on Thursday night, on RTVE.
The spokesman arrogated to himself a gallant role for Sumar when he assured that the coalition of the left would not be placed "in the background nor will we allow the PSOE to negotiate directly with Junts", so he asserted the best relations both with Junts and with CKD. "We will be totally proactive, not only when we talk with ERC and Junts, but also with all the forces involved", stressed Urtasun, who added that in Sumar "we will be found looking for solutions, presenting proposals, listening attentively and building bridges".
Hence the determining role that the formation of Yolanda Díaz has conferred on Jaume Asens, ex-president of the confederal group of Unides Podemi, the politician of the commons who has cultivated the most direct and fluid personal relationships in recent years with both the leader of the Esquerra, Oriol Junqueras, as with the former president of the Generalitat and leader of Junts, Carles Puigdemont.
It is known, because it was confirmed by the leader of the commons, Jéssica Albiach, that Junts has put on the table issues to be discussed such as the tandem referendum and amnesty, but at the same time, Albiach herself pointed out that the logic of all negotiations is that a s 'must sit at the table with a catalog of maximum demands and that, in any case, the determinant of the dialogue is not the starting points of the parties, but the areas of agreement that can be built between the positions.
While the PSOE takes the negotiation calmly, waiting to know if the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, as number one on the list with the most votes, will attempt the investiture, Sumar greases the negotiations with one and the other. The Basque front, in any case, is clarified, since the PNB cut short the PP's attempt to negotiate, although it announced that it would not give a vote in favor of the investiture, seeing the failures of the socialists in the last legislature . EH-Bildu did not want to maintain any intrigue and has already announced that, given the alternative of an electoral repeat that gives a second chance to a right-wing government with the ultra-right, the vote would be affirmative to invest in Sánchez.
Although receptive to dialogue with Sumar, Junts and ERC expect, in any case, that the negotiation of the investment agreement will be closed with the PSOE, not with the eventual minority partner, and they agree with the claim of the PNB, who denounced this week the absence of a socialist road map to address the territorial problem.
The dialogue between the PSOE and Sumar is fluid, both say, but informal. For the time being, the Socialists have not responded to Sumar's rush to finalize the structure and program of the eventual coalition Government as soon as possible. The contrast with 2019 is clear: if in April Sánchez put the negotiations on hold, which finally failed in July, after the electoral repeat in November PSOE and Unides Podemos took just 48 hours to have a pact to rule together But then there was the rush of the revolt of the Socialist Party itself against Sánchez, a threat that, after 23-J, has been diluted.
