The PP and the Decree of the tariffs: A new PNV palace in view? | Spain

Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s new tone and his calls for unity before the tariff crisis had fed the expectation that at least, Donald Trump’s barrage I was going to propitiate the first state pact in Spain. It was interpreted that The shaking in the world economy caused by the president of the United States He forced all political actors to resituate, and also to the PP, which is why he left the opposition of noise and fury to return to the state party suit. The pactist fervorhowever, it has relaxed very soon. Little does the collapse of the bags or omens of a world recession matter: Spanish politics remains conditioned by their domestic affairs and – once – the Catalan question and partisan calculations are brought into any consensus.

Feijóo, who already faced with great discomfort and wing pressures lasting any approach to Pedro Sánchez, vertigo has felt very soon. The PP leader hardened his position yesterday before the negotiation with the government after calling a country agreement only two days before. The popular say they were deceived by the Executive because he has agreed in parallel with Junts an additional provision in the Royal Decree to respond to tariffs – the second – to which the PP has come to call « tariff quota. »

PP veterans notify Feijóo sotto voce that be careful to get tangled up again in the decree of the tariffs, as happened with that of pensions. They warn you that you should not hold on to a single nail – now the alleged quota, then the « palace for the PNV » – to oppose a package of measures with broad social support, because the risk is that the same thing happens to it as with pensions. With retirement benefits, Feijóo ended up rectifying and ordered to vote in favor in the second vote, although the decree returned to include the same « palace » for Basque penis. « The risk of focusing on something concrete is that you have to eat it, » warn those who comb gray hair for the decree of tariffs.

Apart from the rhetoric of Junts, accustomed to selling any minor hunting piece as the veal sirloin, the literal writing of the second additional provision is so ambiguous that it does not allow to confirm any privilege for Catalonia. He says: « The Government will guarantee that the disposal of companies of the financial instruments regulated in this Royal Decree-Law will be carried out, with respect to territorial balance, based on the percentage of exports of goods to the United States of the United States of the companies of each autonomous community with respect to the total of Spain in 2024 with particular attention to those communities that have a greater exhibition. »

Despite literalness, Feijóo warned from Brussels to the PP government is now « farther » from an agreement, since there is no « doubt » that this provision has been added « with the aim of contenting separatism. » Thus recovered the hard rhetoric against independence that the PP brings out when the PSOE pacts with junts, and that avoids when it is the PP that coincides with them. There have been few alliances between popular and ex -vergent in voting in Congress in recent months: to lie the electricity tax, the aforementioned decree of pensions or the State Public Health Agency, which also dropped together.

The PP argues that the problem is distrust of Pedro Sánchez. « This government is not reliable! », Complains the leaders closest to Feijóo. Little has served the socialists the gesture of trust by sending the text of the Royal Decree to the PP 48 hours before the Council of Ministers. Nor the wink changing the dates of the plenary of April so that the popular can attend the European Popular Party that is held in Valencia.

The reality is that Feijóo feels very close the breath of the hard wing of the right and Vox. The paradox is that the extreme right has enough at this time to avoid its own collapse due to the strategic error of having delivered in the arms of the main responsible for a world economic cataclysm.

But the last turn of the PP could also be a « staging », interpret some leaders of the PP, who consider what happens, « you cannot vote that no » to the decree of the tariffs. Because « the enemy is another » and external: it is in the White House. The PP would have very difficult to stay alone with Vox rejecting the measures to help Spanish companies for Trump’s onslaught against Spanish products. This Thursday, the Minister of Economy, Carlos Body, will take the temperature of the party beyond Genoa, at the meeting he will hold with the trade officials of the Autonomous Communities, mostly governed by the PP.

The advantage for Feijóo is that he has time to keep thinking. From here to within a month, when the decree of the tariffs arrives to Parliament, everything can happen, the popular admit. The PP can go to no or yes, or both at the same time, as with pensions.