The role of Pedro Sánchez’s partners and allies in the debate on the state of the nation, in Freudian terms, will be to speak to the president about his superego. of duty to be Humors have been rising in temperature during the two and a half years of the legislature, partially restrained because the urgent tends to displace the important, and the pandemic has maintained a relatively solid – with sporadic casualties – the discipline of the forces that supported the investiture of the President Sánchez and the program of the coalition government.
But the months go by, the pandemic dissipates –it returns to normal, despite the rebound in infections–, and the list of demands of the groups has been taking center stage, while the war in Ukraine has tensed nerves and spread the uncertainty among the formations that have been lending their support, with slight variations, to the Government’s legislative agenda. But the claims will start with the coalition partner. For the confederal group of United We Can In Comú Podem and Galicia in Common, which still exhibits the chafing caused by being co-host of the transcendent NATO summit, the spokesman, Pablo Echenique and the group’s president, Jaume Asens, and The first is expected to convey to the president the message of the last State Citizen Council of Podemos, which the Secretary General and Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, has been repeating: “Get back on track and reorient policies to the left”, after the two episodes that have most affected United We Can, the Atlantic summit and the massacre of the Melilla fence, which considers that the Government may be projecting an image of a “centre-right” government. They will also demand new social measures and will demand that their partner comply with the legislative pact on tax matters: they will demand the tax reform that Minister María Jesús Montero has postponed.
In a similar sense, combining concern for the dense economic scenario that hangs over all of Europe with the arrival of winter and the demand for compliance with the agreements of the legislature, the rest of the potential allies will pronounce themselves for the second part of the legislature.
The Catalan groups, all of them, will outline the economic direction from different perspectives, to the right (Junts and PDECat) and to the left (ERC and CUP, in addition to the common ones). In the case of ERC, the main partner, the Republican spokesman, Gabriel Rufián, will emphasize making a diagnosis of the situation, the growing support of the right in the polls and the responsibility that the lack of progressive drive has in this situation of the policies implemented by the Executive. And in that sense, the responsibility of the president in the rise of right-wing populism, inside and outside Catalonia, due to that lack of determination in policies.
The PNV, the second main partner, has not advanced the line of its strategy for the debate, but the events in interventions in recent months allow us to predict that it will put on the table the lack of diligence of the Government in complying with the agreements and the progressive loss of legislative pulse.
