This Monday, at nine in the morning, the Ministry of Labor offers unemployment data for the last month. While waiting for the percentages and details to be dissected by the second vice president and holder of that portfolio, Yolanda Díaz, there is a certain optimism in the Government regarding the evolution of the labor market in February. But in La Moncloa they are not deceived, because they know that the amnesty law and the Koldo case They engulf all government action. This week, to the relief of the Executive, the approval in Congress of the measure of grace for the defendants of the process. However, the same is not going to happen with the plot to collect illegal commissions on the purchase of masks that came to light on February 20 and that surrounds the former Minister of Transport, and now deputy of the Mixed Group, José Luis Ábalos.
Despite the absence of certainties, moving forward with the amnesty is essential for the coalition government; It is an indispensable condition, but not sufficient, to give peace of mind to the legislature. Although forgiveness for the crimes of the process, the General State Budgets are not guaranteed either, but will be subjected to a demanding negotiation, as clearly transmitted by different pro-independence interlocutors. This was not initially planned following the conversations for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez.
In the last few hours, both the central government and Junts have used the word “slab”, each with a different intention, to refer to the amnesty. Socialist interlocutors estimate that, when the grace measure has been approved and comes into force, the Executive will be able to shed a weight that does not allow it to advance in the projects it has in its portfolio, and that depend on the votes of Junts. In fact, the few measures that have been announced or approved so far have barely had any impact beyond the moment, overshadowed by the amnesty.
The government will defend Armengol without fissures
The slab to which the former Catalan president and fugitive from justice Carles Puigdemont alludes is “the slab of exile.” Once freed from that burden, if that happens due to the amnesty law, and assuming that it can cover him once morest the loopholes of crime that the Supreme Court may find, nothing will have concluded. Everything will be decided according to whether or not the demands of the neo-convergents are accepted. With this attitude of maximum demand on the part of Junts, there are no certainties regarding the future of the legislature.
The agreement on the amnesty, which both sides see as probable and which will have to be finalized this week in the Congressional Justice Commission, will coexist with the political earthquake of the Koldo case. This Monday, the popular group plans to register a document in Congress in which it will ask the president of the Chamber, Francina Armengol, to abandon the seat of deputy, and, therefore, the presidency. The third authority of the State at the moment is the target to be beaten by the PP for the purchase of defective masks from the corrupt plot when she was president of the Balearic Islands. The socialists will defend Armengol without the slightest fissure, the Government and the party point out.
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The socialist response to the PP’s attack on this issue, focused on “and you more”, displeases Sumar’s partners. This Monday, the second vice president brings together her parliamentary group to address a series of anti-corruption measures; Not because they believe that there has been one on the part of socialist regional presidents, interlocutors from that group point out, but because the control bodies must take extreme measures.
There are no nuances or presumptions in the PP’s assertions. Pedro Sánchez “knew everything and covered it up,” said the spokesperson for the popular group, Miguel Tellado. “Get out of the bunker, stop hiding,” demanded the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to the President of the Government. While this offensive was being unleashed, Sánchez occupied the speakers’ platform in Rome for the Party of European Socialists, meeting to elect Nicolas Schmitt as a candidate to preside over the European Commission. The enthusiastic reception of Pedro Sánchez from the European socialist family, being seen as one of the few leaders who has stood up to the right and the extreme right in Europe, was probably the only friendly moment in public that the president has experienced since the outbreak of the Koldo case.
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