With less and less parliamentary support, after the threat of the Junts, the Canarian Coalition and Jose Luis Abalos to stop supporting the social-communist majority, the president of the government and leader of the PSOE, Pedro Sanchezshowed this Saturday his most authoritarian side threatening the parliamentary groups that “we will govern with or without the help of the legislative power.” A Parliament that, according to him, “must be more constructive and less restrictive.” A declaration of intentions, after having repeated incessantly that “there is a long mandate,” which announces a few months of decrees for want of being able to approve the laws in the Congress of Deputies.
In addition to the reform of the immigration law, highly requested by the Canary Islands to mitigate the effects of the arrival of irregular immigrants to the islands, the next major regulation that must be debated in the Carrera de San Jerónimo Chamber These are the general budgets of the State. The most important law for any government.
This Tuesday, the Executive will give its green light for the second time, in the Council of Ministers, to the spending ceiling that will then have to be validated by the Cortes. If there is no prior agreement with Junts, as happened in July, It is very likely that the spending ceiling will drop again and this same month of September, Sánchez is forced to extend last year’s budgets. Something that, as he said a few years ago, should force him to call elections. But he does not seem willing to comply with what he has preached.
Praise to Illa
Pedro Sánchez spoke about these terms in the framework of the Federal Committee of the PSOE, meeting this Saturday at the headquarters on Ferraz Street, which will serve to convene the 41st Federal Congress that he himself decided to move forward almost a year to protect himself in power. The socialist leader began his speech by praising the new president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illaand the promise that his party and the PSC will advance “in progress, coexistence and cohesion towards Catalonia and all of Spain.”
“Feel the support of your PSOE colleagues because the PSOE and the PSC will move Catalonia and all of Spain forward in progress, in coexistence and in cohesion. Congratulations, go ahead and good luck,” said Sánchez, who used Illa’s letter and the recovery of autonomous power in Catalonia to try to appease the criticism of the rest of the barons regarding the granting of single funding for this region.
Sánchez expressed his “pride” because he assures that until not long ago in Catalonia “there was talk of conflicts and rupture” and now there is a president of the socialist Generalitat who works “for understanding between Catalans and the unity of the peoples.” Spain.
“It is a socialist achievement and an achievement of yours and that of the Catalans,” Sánchez told Illa, while congratulating Illa in his initial speech. Oscar Lopeznew Minister of Digital Transformation and Civil Service and also present at the event.
With the same objective of silencing the voices that have been raised against the singular financing, in his open speech, before giving way to the multiple words requested and whose content is not made public, the president told his barons that the Catalan quota could be an opportunity to “design a new autonomous scene” that will contribute to creating a “fairer system”. However, he demanded financial responsibility from the regional governments.
