Two days after the granting of third diplomas to the “unrepentant” members of ETA, a new gesture from the PSOE arrives at EH Bildu: the independence party did the same by presenting this Thursday reform of the citizen security lawbetter known as gag law. Two missions of PSOE to one of its parliamentary partners in less than 48 hours.
Pedro Sánchez dedicates himself to the last attempt to advance the General state budgets 2025aware that there is an opportunity to reach almost the end of the legislature if you get it.
For this he gave instructions recompose relationships with his parliamentary partners to resolve issues on which he had not reached agreement during this and the previous legislature. He does this by rectifying new positions And transferor where previously he had not wanted to give in and move the red lines as is usual in all his negotiations.
In a nod to the party he leads Arnaldo Otegithe socialists gave their agreement this Tuesday to the release of two members of ETA for blood crimes. They are Luis Mariñelarena Garciandía, assassin of Fernando Buesa, and Harriet Iragi Gurrutxaga, convicted of shooting prosecutor Luis Portero.
Otegi himself already claimed this in October 2021: “We have 200 prisoners in prison and, if to get them out, we have to vote in favor of budgetsSo we vote. “I’m telling you loud and clear.”
And the last case, this Thursday, is that of the appeal gag law. Bildu has reached an agreement with the government to reform this rule in order to end the use of current rubber bullets by the Strengths Security. Until three months ago, the Interior opposed the elimination of these projectiles as police equipment for riot police. Now he has changed his mind.
Reform too This will reduce the punishment for disobedience from a serious offense to a minor offense.
Change of mind
With this agreement, the President of the Government leaves behind the government speech without Can Legislative and the argument about the normalization of a hypothetical extension of budgets due to the lack of parliamentary support. Once again, it makes its position more flexible to adapt to the curves that present themselves throughout the course.
It all started when Sánchez saw the crack that left the possibility that Together returned to the investiture majority by accepting a negotiation on the trajectory of the deficit, as a prelude to a possible agreement to achieve the Budgetswhich will be voted on, expected, at the beginning of 2025.
To approximate Together He started by removing the deficit pathcontrary to what he had said previously, and dusted off certain agreements which were in an impasse, such as the transfer of powers of immigration or the use of Catalan in establishments of European Unionamong others.
The government went from claiming that the complete transfer of immigration powers was “impossible”, as Marlaska put it, to looking for solutions so that it could comply and Junts could demonstrate it. trophy in Catalonia.
More transfers
A few days ago, the PSOE also rectified its support for the consideration of the bill which strengthens the judicial control of CNI. In May 2022, in the middle of a spy scandal with Pegasus to the Catalan separatists, Sánchez himself launched in the plenary session of Congress the bombshell of a reform in the same direction to guarantee the legal action of the secret services.
Once the smoke cleared, the Government let it settle and we never knew until now the proposal of the PNV. Sánchez agreed last week to subject the National Intelligence Center to greater political control to please Aitor Esteban’s party.
Another transfer, in this case to Junts, also affects the CNI, since the government, which refused until recently, has accepted declassify the documents of this organization on the attacks of August 17, 2017 which took place in Barcelona and Cambrils.
He also gave a nod to PNV by including in the list of standards of the so-called regeneration plan a new law on official secretsone of the demands of Basque nationalists for several legislatures.
With Bildu, Sánchez’s executive decided that it was Mertxe Aizpurua which announces the reform of the law. He has already done this before with the law on historical memory and with the increase in non-contributory pensions.
There were also transfers with the ERC: the PSC agreed with the party of Oriol Junqueras to advance in the Catalan concert as a condition for Salvador Illa to be sworn in as president of the Generalitat.
