Always, Pedro Sanchez opted for foreign policy. And in the worst moments of his turbulent presidencies, he always knew how to take the Falcon and parade his good international image to other latitudes.
This Monday, in Bombay, the president not only had to follow the crisis of Errejon affairwhich is bleeding its minority coalition partners, also discovered new exclusives from the Koldo affairand finally, He learned that his 2025 budgets are doomed.
We can vote No to the public accounts bill. This is a statement confirmed in two ways. First, from direct sources from the Secretariat of the purple formation: “We have enough strength to fight this fight to the end”. And secondly, because even in Podemos – it is clear – we do not believe that the president can accept the requirements imposed for purple bases.
A 89.8% of the 38,324 participants in the consultationactivists of the party he leads Ione Belarravoted in favor of his proposal: that Podemos conditions its support for general state budgets on two essential conditions.
First, that the government “immediately break commercial and diplomatic relations with the genocidal state [sic] of Israel”, including a total arms embargo. And two, which “The rental price is reduced by 40% by law” and the Executive “prohibits the purchase of housing that is not intended for residence.”
Additionally, of course, that steps be taken to “immediately dismantle squad commands” [sic] as Detachment“.
Accounts of accounts
As this newspaper learned, the Podemos leadership convened the consultation assuming not only that its members would support the position proposed by Belarra, but that the PSOE would be aware that became “a mandate”. Even more so with such a high participation and such an important result.
If nearly nine out of ten activists are calling for these measures, “we can clearly see what this consultation means, and more In this context of disintegration of the Government” explain the sources consulted.
That is to say the purple formation will withdraw its four votes of the call investiture majority de Sánchez, who added 179 deputies less than a year ago, on November 16.
At present, the budgets have already been delayed by a month (and what remains) due to the refusal of Junts to accept a spending ceiling that does not grant Catalonia privileges greater than those of Carles Puigdemont they can sell to their voters.
But even so, the PSOE managed to maintain the discipline of all those who invested Sánchez, could only reach 175 votes for. He No of Podemos, with the 137 votes of the PP, the 33 of Vox and the UPN, would lead to equality, in the best case scenario for the Government.
And according to him article 88 of the Regulations of Congress“In the event of a tie in a vote, a second vote will take place and, if it persists,” the session is suspended at the discretion of the presidency. “Once the deadline has expired, the vote will be repeated and, in the event of a new tie of votes, the bill will be deemed rejected.”
Bring down the government
So, this Monday in India, Sánchez saw to what extent the indisputable successes of foreign propaganda are no longer worth it. Before, they returned to their inner image and any crisis was tempered. Now he will even meet Delcy Rodríguez in Bombay.
The vice president of the tyranny of Nicolas Maduro In Venezuela, he inaugurated his government in January 2020, he reappeared in September 2024, with his “coercions” to Edmundo Gonzalez. And he became a definitive celebrity as “the boss” of the plotaccording to the latest UCO report.
That’s what he named it Victor de Aldamathe ringleader, getter and commission agent, friend of Koldo García and brother of the bodyguard of José Luis Ábalos, “the boss” to whom he also gave a name… and to the same Sánchez, nicknamed “the good one”.
Rodríguez was on an official visit to the same Indian city where Sánchez and his wife, Begoña Gómez, landed, who reappeared after several months of absence from public events. He knew it himself Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who slipped it sarcastically in the morningduring the closed meeting of its National Executive Committee.
And all the the leaders and barons of the PP celebrated with laughter the event, as revealed by internal sources.
Lately, Sánchez’s outer star has faded, his government diplomatic crises accumulate (Venezuela, Mexico, Argentina, Algeria, Israel…), several prestigious international publications riddled him with criticism and, this time, the scandals he thought he had left behind accompanied him on his trip to India.
And this is how he is perceived at Podemos, as an executive “in disintegration”.
Yes indeed, Even if they want to, the purples do not believe that Sánchez can fall lack of budget. “I would have liked it to be in our power” to decide who governs, adds this spokesperson, almost wishing that the right would occupy Moncloa to reinforce its discourse. “Sánchez will not seek public accountsnow they are committed, but when they saw the ugly situation in September, they downplayed it.”
According to the training founded by Pablo Iglesiasrather, the reason will be that attrition collapses electoral expectations and causes bleeding. Because “Bad government is a solvent for the left”. And all the more so since Sánchez cannot escape the cases of Errejón and Ábalos, even thousands of kilometers away: “It will be too much, even for Sánchez,” say Podemos sources.
