The Government can continue to meet every Tuesday in La Moncloa with all the ministers, those of the PSOE and those of Unidas Podemos, but the PP considers that the “rupture of the Government” has already occurred and with it Pedro Sánchez is in decline, ” does not rule” and can be likened to “a government in office and in decomposition”, according to the analysis made by sources close to the president of the PP, after the division that was visualized on Tuesday in Congress, with Unidas Podemos voting against the reform of the PSOE to modify the law of yes is yes.
And what seems even more significant to the popular, that the break is not only between the two partners in the Government, PSOE and Unidas Podemos, but also between all the investiture and legislature partners with the socialist part of the Government, since Sánchez’s main partners in Congress, ERC, Bildu and Más Madrid, voted against the socialist proposal and sided with those of Yolanda Díaz and Irene Montero in the division that has occurred. Of the parliamentary partners of the Government, only the PNV sided with the Socialists to modify the law.
With this panorama, the question that Alberto Núñez Feijóo asks himself is how Pedro Sánchez will be able to continue governing, and above all, with whom he will be able to govern after the general elections scheduled for December, if the rupture has been as loud as the one that was staged on Tuesday in Congress, and this Wednesday, in the celebration of Women’s Day, with two parallel acts by the two government partners, on the one hand Irene Montero and the United Podemos part of the Government, to which ERC added, and on the other the socialist part with Pedro Sánchez at the helm.
The confirmation, for the president of the PP, that the break is complete, no matter how much the two members of the coalition assure that the government continues – which he attributes to Sánchez’s intention to continue in power – is the way in which that the parity law was approved and presented, presented by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in an act of the PSOE, that it be done without the intervention of the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, neither in the preparation nor in the subsequent defense in the Council of Ministers, to which was added that the minister of Podemos was not allowed out in the press conference after the Council of Ministers, to explain the law, but rather that ministers of the PSOE did it, is a confirmation of the situation that the Executive is going through, which otherwise, in the opinion of the leadership of the PP, would give rise to either the breakdown of the coalition or the dismissal of the minister.
Even more so after the interventions of the ministers of Podemos, Ione Belarra and Irene Montero, accusing Sánchez and the socialist part of the Government of betraying women, and the intervention of the representative of the purple group in Congress, with direct accusations Pedro Sánchez, whom he came to accuse of allying with the fascists.
But Feijóo is aware that this does not mean that the Government is going to break, even if it is de facto, nor that there will be an electoral advance. The president of the PP continues to work with the prospect that the elections will take place in December, as Pedro Sánchez continues to assure, and will continue with his roadmap, which now involves turning to the municipal and regional elections, where the PP hopes to win in all of Spain and achieve a very good result, in terms of the formation of municipal and regional governments, and with that plus reach the general elections in December, where he is sure that “the change of cycle” will take place).
