The legislature has entered discount time despite the president’s intention to rush to the last drop. To the continuous scuffles between the two partners of the Council of Ministers are now added the clashes between the Government and the forces that led to the investiture of Sánchez and that have served as a prop in Congress for the Executive’s initiatives.
Added to the clash over the reform of the only yes is yes law is the decision of ERC and Bildu to knock down with their votes the reform of the Citizen Security law, known as the Gag Law, promoted by the Socialists and, in addition, to defend in the plenary session of Congress a bill to review in depth the labor reform championed by Yolanda Díaz in order to recover rights that workers had before the government stage of Mariano Rajoy.
Yesterday, ERC and Bildu, two priority allies of the Executive, put an end to the reform of the Gag Law, because they understood that it did not meet the minimum requirements for its repeal, a commitment guaranteed by the Government and included in the coalition pact. between the PSOE and United We Can. Both the Catalan independence republicans and the nationalists considered that the proposal sponsored by the PNV with the endorsement of the Government remained a mere revision of the Citizen Security Law approved under the mandate of Mariano Rajoy.
The points of conflict that have definitively dynamited the reform of the law were four: the use of rubber bullets as part of the riot gear, the sanctions imposed for disrespect to the police, the sanctions for disobedience to the authority of the Corps and Security Forces and the devolution of immigrants on the fly, such as those that occurred at the fence in Melilla.
Finally, the agreement between ERC and Bildu on the one hand and the Government on the other was not possible and the reform of the Gag Law decayed. The disaster also caused a schism within the junior partner of the Executive, United We Can, divided between those who blame the PSOE for the fiasco and those who pointed to ERC and Bildu.
Thus, from Podemos all the responsibility was placed on the shoulders of the socialists, thus aligning itself with Catalan and nationalist republicans, while from Izquierda Unida and los Comunes, Yolanda Díaz’s main supporters within that political space, accused of the problem to the pro-independence parties, reproaching them for their “electoralism”.
The internal clash was revealed with the confrontation between the former leader of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, and Enrique Santiago, main negotiator for United We Can in the attempt to repeal the Gag Law.
Iglesias published an article in CTXT praising the position of ERC and Bildu in favor of prohibiting the use of rubber balls: «What do you want me to tell you! ERC, Bildu and Podemos are absolutely right in demanding that the repeal of the Gag Law, which the PSOE refuses to do, end once and for all with rubber bullets in Spain.
Santiago’s response, after this disavowal of his work, came via tweet: “Unidas Podemos has worked to eliminate them [the rubber balls], but not achieving it still does not justify 4 more years of Gag”, he sentenced criticizing the ERC decision and Bildu to knock down the reform of the law.
The spokesman for Unidas Podemos, Pablo Echenique, unloaded for his part on the PSOE all the blame because, he said, “he did not want to make a last effort” to tie up the votes of the investiture allies in response to their requests. For Echenique, the disaster of this reform is a “terrible failure of the legislature” and “there is only one person responsible”, the PSOE.
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