There is a general consensus among Pedro Sánchez’s partners in Congress that they share even from a good part of the socialist ranks: the president of the Government has fallen short in his reaction to the crisis derived from the Saints Cerdán scandal. The creation of an investigation commission, the impulse of an external audit in the party and the appearance on July 9 to give explanations are now insufficient to suffocate the political fire that threatens to make ashes the legislature. And that is why the parliamentary allies that support the Executive warn that much more will be needed to keep it standing.
“Our priority now is to know if this has continuity or not, if it is worth following to give us the reasons and to explain it well. To tell us what are the guarantees that he puts on the table for the fulfillment of the Brussels agreements we signed,” said the general secretary of Junts, Jordi Turull, after meeting with Pedro Sánchez in the Moncloa next to the parliamentary spokesman Míriam Míriam.
After citing his second vice president and the leader of adding on Monday, the president opened the round of conversations with the rest of the partners precisely with the Carles Puigdemont party, the interlocution that is most damaged after the exit of number 3 of the PSOE. Because Cerdán was not only the man who was traveling once a month abroad to meet with the leader of Junts, but the one who had woven a relationship of personal trust with leaders like Turull himself who became the last forum for conflict resolution.
As Sanchez confessed during the meeting in La Moncloa, he has not yet decided which person will now be in charge of being the link with an indispensable parliamentary group for the sustainability of the legislature. “What has happened has shaken everything and we are responsible people, we are people who know about the seriousness of the situation and we will not make hot decisions. We will make decisions thinking about what is best for Catalonia and what we have committed to citizens. It is a first meeting, there must be more and must realize many more things,” Turull remarked after warning that “the confidence” of his party “is at the limit.”
But the discomfort with the reaction of the PSOE does not fit together, the investiture partner who has given Pedro Sánchez since July 23, 2023. Other formations, such as ERC or EH Bildu, have raised the tone against the socialists, whom they ask to react urgently and convincingly to continue to have their backing. While Podemos has not even agreed to sit with the president.
ERC supports the investigation commission announced by Sánchez, but believes that the measures announced by the President are still insufficient. “It must appear in Congress and must do it now,” says the Republicans. In fact, Esquerra supported the Board of Spokespersons on Tuesday a petition of the PP to change the plenary day order of this week and force Sanchez to appear on Wednesday. “They tell us that the president cannot appear in Congress because ‘he has to comply with his international agenda.’ They should understand that to continue complying with that international agenda, he must continue to be president,” said Gabriel Rufián. The Republican spokesman will see Sánchez in La Moncloa this Wednesday morning.
With EH Bildu, while the situation is also complicated. The main interlocutor of the Socialists with Arnaldo Otegi was also Santos Cerdán, for more years even with Junts. And that dialogue is now in suspense. “The corruption is consubstantial to the regime of 78. We will be very demanding in the purification of responsibilities. It is no longer worth saying that the alternative is worse. The strategy that the others are worse will no longer work. The PSOE must be aware that there has been a change of screen. The situation has varied substantially,” said Otegi in an interview on Radio Euskadi in which he censored the approach of Pedro Sánchez in which Pedro Sánchez censored. Even with corruption cases, his government is better than one of PP and Vox.
For its part, the PNV is maintained for now as one of the most prudent partners. Although they also demand a step forward of the PSOE. In an interview on Radio Popular-Herri Irratia, the training leader, Aitor Esteban, asked to clarify whether they are specific people who have been “committing infractions and crimes for their own benefit” or if it is something “more systemic.”
“There may be a ball of which we only see the principle of thread. This report can be known over the next few weeks. There are red lines and exemplarity and humility when facing these situations is essential. This of saying that a project must be kept at all costs … in politics there is an ethic and a line. The political parties will take positions. crimes for your own benefit.
Appearance on July 9
The plan drawn up in La Moncloa, meanwhile, is the most ambitious of those who can draw in politics: survive. To do this, they expect in the Executive that the passing of the days contributes to tame the waters of the tsunami that looms over them since last week with the UCO report. Although to achieve this it is essential that there be a circumstance on which no one is certain: that the scandal does not climb even more.
In the press conference of the Council of Ministers on Tuesday, the spokesman, Pilar Alegría, put voice in public to that fear that everyone admits in private since last Thursday. The question to the spokeswoman was explicit. “Can you guarantee that neither the president nor any government member will be affected by new information related to this plot?” The answer, revealing. “They ask me if more names are going to appear: I don’t know,” said the minister, who placed the emphasis on the fact that this happens, the government will act. “What I tell you is that, in the face of any solid indication that appears towards anyone, it will always act with the same forcefulness.”
The date set for now for the appearance at the request of the government president in Congress is next July 9. Sanchez hopes that day his intervention and the explanations that are prepared to offer contribute to reinforce a parliamentary majority that is up to today. And that allows you to keep the long lights of a legislature until 2027, no matter how much no one is in disposition of knowing exactly what can happen in the next kilometer.
Source: www.eldiario.es
