The commercial war reduces the tension in Congress but the PP does not clarify its position | Spain

Everyone arrived this Wednesday at the appearance in the Congress of the Minister of Economy, Carlos Body, exhibiting his « hand laid. » Everyone except Vox, of course, determined to attribute what calls « tariff campaign » to anyone less to Donald Trump, whose name even avoid pronouncing ultras spokesmen. The others, also the PP, assured that their hand is willing to strengthen that of the Government for the good of the Spaniards. Apart issue is how far that rhetoric will be realized. Singularly on the side of the popular, which Avoid clarifying what your position will be before the first decree of government measures adducing alleged new concessions to Catalan independence.

The parliamentary day had begun with the government control session In the exalted custom: applause, boos, opposition deputies talking about corruptions and prostitutes in the government, ministers denouncing insults out of the microphone of opposition deputies … when, three hours later, the first monograph It falls as a relaxing in the hyperventilated Spanish political climate.

The Economic head of the PP, Juan Bravo, one of the most month -old spokesmen, appeared with redoubled delicacy to show that “hand laid”. Then it was by disgusting minor criticism, such as that only direct or direct aids have been approved or that has been excluded in Vox from the conversations. He finished with a warning: « If they begin to make political games, we will leave the negotiations. »

The popular base their suspicion on the announcement of Junts that has achieved the government’s guarantee that 25% of compensation to companies will go to Catalan companies. This percentage would correspond to the weight of the exports of Catalonia to the US within the total of the Spanish. Such a thing is not specified in the decree with the first measures published on Wednesday in the BOE and that Congress must validate before a month. Bravo, to base his complaint from a new contubernio of the government with the independentists, alluded to the final text of the decree including modifications that did not consist of the draft that was sent to the PP.

Body, after a first dribble to the issue and before the insistence of the popular deputy, clarified the scope of these modifications. The most substantial has been to add that the calculation of the exports of each company will be made on the basis of the balance of 2024. A glimpse of softering appeared in the minister’s tone when he added that the word discretion for arbitrariness has also been replaced in a sentence. And, already touching the sarcasm, he completed that two points have been replaced by a point in the exposure of motives and a “of” preposition has been suppressed. In his seat, Bravo gestured and nodded, as if implied that body corroborated his complaints.

Junts, in his strategy to present himself as the winner of all pulses with the government, threw a cable to the popular speech. His deputy Josep Maria Cruset boasted of having stopped the « recentralization of resources » that, according to him, the executive prepared. Although he clarified that he has not obtained a « privilege »: « Catalonia takes what is from the Catalans, no more, or less. » Gabriel Rufián, from ERC, He does not let one pass to what he calls the « Catalan right »he disqualified as « a lie » the alleged concessions that says he started together.

Since he replaced Nadia Calviño, the body minister has been practically out of the PP radar. Given the good macroeconomic data of the country, the popular preferred to bring their opposition through other more truculent lands. This Wednesday was almost a length for body, which was presented with a typical speech of an economy manager: 45 minutes of very technical considerations that did not give rise to the applause of their own or to the protests of those in front. He stressed that Trump’s measures lack « economic rationality, » presumed that the government reacted « at 12 hours » and promised to persevere in dialogue with the political forces and the affected sectors, as well as in promoting a common position in the EU: « It is the time of Europe, to defend our common DNA. »

José María Figaredo, from Vox, put such a effort to blame Pedro Sánchez of the US commercial reprisals that ended up raising him to the category of « leader of the global opposition to Trump ». For the rest, he endured a considerable chaparrón, inaugurated by Manuel Lago, to add, who went to the bench of the Ultras: « None of you are ashamed of what your party is doing? Strange patriots that when your country is attacked are put on the side of the aggressor. » The recipients of the reconvention or moubuct a murmur.

Lago also promised that the dismissals of workers in companies benefiting from aid will not be allowed, a matter on which other spokespersons for leftist groups, such as Nestor Rego, of the BNG, who took the opportunity to alert against the consequences of the free trade agreement with Mercosur. With different intensities, the political forces were showing their “hand laid”, from the disposition of Oskar Matute, of EH Bildu, to agree on a “minimum program”, until the appeal of Alberto Catalán, of UPN, to seek the “Unity, without posture or frivolities”, OA Cristina Valido, of CC, which claimed special attention to the islands for its peripheral condition.

References to the need to seek a “coordinated response” of the EU also abounded, in the words of Idoia Sagastizabal, of the PNV, who asked – without achieving an answer – if Brussels consider tax the great American technological ones. On that, Matute did not ask, he expressly asked. The most critical voice was again that of Pode North American investment funds with real estate interests in Spain.

Body answered all of them, but his final message was directed especially to the PP for his reluctance to the agreement: « We have to be brave. It touches us. »