The earthquake of Junts continue to wreak havoc on coalition government while receiving applause from the PP and Vox. The party’s seven deputies are increasingly imposing obstacles on their supposed allies (PSOE, Sumar and ERC), hinting at a possible shift towards the opposition. A position that is reaffirmed after his latest gesture in Congress by withdrawing his support for the approval of the regulation of tourist rentals proposed by Sumar less than three minutes before the vote.
Those from Puigdemont rejected Sumar’s proposal to regulate temporary rentals and did it their own way: giving late and poor notice and doing the opposite of what they had announced. The alarms went off at three minutes that the vote is about to begin. Íñigo Errejón received the call from Míriam Nogueras to inform him that they were changing position and instead of abstaining, they would vote no. In a few seconds, the joy in Sumar turned into elongated faces due to the 178 votes against and 172 for, reaping a new defeat for the government that was in place. applauded by the PP and Vox thanks to Junts’ 180 degree turn.
Junts has once again made it clear that they are the ones running the Congress. But what are the party’s arguments for withdrawing its support for the measure three minutes earlier? They justify their change of position by claiming that during the debate, held three hours earlier, they had realized that The law invades the powers of CataloniaA justification that the spokesperson of Junts in Congress, Míriam Nogueras, reaffirmed, assuring that “we have not changed our minds.”
Not satisfied with the tourist rental, Junts has once again put the executive of Sánchez between a rock and a hard place. During the control session in Congress this Wednesday, Josep Maria Cruset highlighted the control of the borders in Catalonia as a new open front between Junts and the PSOE. “Either you respect the agreements or you defeat the parliamentarians”warned the deputy Josep Maria Cruset in Congress, adding that they will not accept a “reduced” agreement because what they “want is the independence of Catalonia” and that if they do not accept its conditions, “they will not have the agreement of the seven-vote party.”
The words of Junts, in question
The message that Junts has given in recent hours is clear: all or nothing. A message that has penetrated the PSOE, which is already wondering if Puigdemont’s party is really an ally of the government. “The monitoring session clarified the positions”said María Jesús Montero, Minister of Finance, in the halls of Congress. A lapidary response that, although it does not explicitly confirm that they do not trust Puigdemont’s party, gives a glimpse of the friction between the two parties.
Although she was not the only one who wanted to send a message to her government partners. Patxi López, unlike Montero, threw a knife at the Junts, ensuring that they themselves must answer if they are a trustworthy party: “They will be the ones who will have to account for their inconsistencies, because if five minutes before voting on something, then they vote against it on the grounds that it has no legal coherence. What we are going to do is continue to work, continue to talk with all the political groups, continue to negotiate and continue to agree so that things move forward.”
It should be noted that this distrust is not a product of what happened on Tuesday. ANDI The government has already lost 35 votes at the Congressor the joint votes of the PP, Vox and Juntswith the ceiling of public spending as Sánchez’s biggest defeat against the pro-independence party. That’s when they rejected the proposal due to the poor execution of previous budgets in Catalonia, which leftThe Government does not have the seven votes needed to draw up the 2025 general state budgets.
For his part, Sumar already qualifies Junts as a training to which “We cannot give them any credibility”. “Junts made a strategic mistake, I vote with those who want to put them in prison, the PP,” said Íñigo Errejón, deputy of Sumar, on Wednesday. Not only that, but with this decision “it calls into question his word for the rest of the agreements.”
Rufián warns against a pact of Junts with PP and Vox
The last-minute move by Junts, which is added to the list of measures in which they have positioned themselves alongside the PP and Vox, leaves a doubt: is there a Junts pact with the Spanish right and far right? The ERC spokesperson in the Congress of Deputies, Gabriel Rufianwarned against an agreement between Junts and PP and Vox which would represent an alternative majority to that of the Government in the Lower House and which according to him is already “formed”.
During the Government control session, Rufián stressed that the socialists are wrong if they think that Junts will not dare to go hand in hand with the parties of Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Santiago Abascal because, according to him, they have a “a huge capacity for media whitewashing” and “it will be free”.
However, it seems that these setbacks and the increasingly complex panorama of his coalition government, with the Junts factor as the main unknown, do not affect Sánchez and he continues to blindly believe that his inauguration will continue for another three years. The President of the Government assured that his Executive “He has three years left” And? “There has been a government for a long time”For now, the socialist will have to continue to face the future of his “government of dialogue and agreement.”
