The PP cools its disposition to the agreement on tariffs although it avoids breaking the dialogue with the Government | Spain

The fragile truce between the PP and the Government for the crisis of Donald Trump’s tariffs It has weakened at full speed. Time will say if it is redirected, but for the moment The PP, which already faced negotiation, has cooled again, has cooled again The possibility of understanding with the government after the approval of the first Royal Decree Law with measures to cushion the effects of commercial barriers. Of the « successful elements » that Alberto Núñez Feijóo underlined on Monday morning in the Royal Decree, the PP went on Tuesday to denounce an alleged “separatist tariff quota” included in the text, following the interpretation made by the independentistas of its parallel agreement with the Ministry of Economy, which in principle ensures its validation in Congress. Feijóo balances to present to the PP as a State Party and control the animosity of the hard wing on the right to any agreement with Pedro Sánchez. In a statement after the Council of Ministers, the popular ones were « expelled from the negotiating framework », but were willing to continue attending government calls. « The bridges are not broken with the PP, » sources from the Ministry of Economy argue.

The PP justifies that sway by a provision of the Royal Decree Law that was included in the final version that Economy provided them before approval. According to Junts, the agreement assumes that the government « territorializes » the aid and investments of the 14.1 billion plan for those affected by tariffs. However, the Executive clarifies that there is no differential treatment for Catalan companies in that second provision that argues that “the Government will guarantee that the disposal of the companies of the financial instruments will be carried out with respect to the territorial balance, on the basis of the percentage of exports of goods to 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 greater communities that have a greater exposure”.

But the interpretation of Junts bothers the popular, who come to talk about an « unequal distribution of the resources of all Spaniards. » « You can’t call the state pacts while the State continues to auction, » the popular ones come to say. The government emphasizes that the PP did not obtain that content and that the PP reaction has occurred when it knew that this incorporation was from the Carles Puigdemont group.

In this scenario, the PP ensures that the possibility of an agreement with the government « is further than before » and that negotiations for this first Royal Decree of aid « have ended », since the text has already been approved by the Council of Ministers, despite its discrepancies. Genoa leaves in any case open the dialogue channel with the Executive, but distrust has been imposed again. « We will continue to attend the calls we receive because we are a state party, but it is not possible that they have the Popular Party if it is to bleach an agreement that returns to compromise equality between citizens and between territories, » warns the PP.

The Minister of Economy, Carlos Body, which Pedro Sánchez has designated as the main negotiator of the Government in the open negotiations with all parties except Vox, left late in the afternoon to temper the spirits. Corps defended that the Royal Decree is « very balanced » and said that the relationship with the PP, where its interlocutor is Juan Bravo, vice -secretary of Economy, is fluid: « I am talking to Mr. Bravo more frequently almost than with my family. We are in a situation of continuous contact and good understanding. I think that is what we have to be above the noise, » he said. Executive sources detailed that both spoke in the afternoon and that the conversation was « threat » and « constructive », a version that they also ratify in the surroundings of the Vice -Secretary of the PP. According to knowledgeable sources of that conversation, Corpora explained the additional provision to Bravo, and he understood it although he reproached the minister had not explained it before.

Unlike body, other sectors within the government are pessimistic and are convinced that the PP is preparing the land to break with the government.

The PP also leaves in the air the meaning of its vote on the decree, despite its reserves. Feijóo, who will meet in Brussels on Wednesday with the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has difficult to oppose a text he said on Monday that he saw successful elements, in a speech that truffled with unity appeals before the tariff crisis. However, before putting the focus on the pact with Junts, the PP had already warned that the modifications that the Government had made to the Royal Decree after its suggestions, which have to do with the reduction to one year of the accounting moratorium and the incorporation into the dialogue to the autonomous communities, in addition to the incorporation of 220 million more for the internationalization of companies. In the middle, a political gesture of the PSOE: the change of the Plenary of the Congress that was planned for the last week of April to allow the PP that can attend the Congress of the European Popular Party that is celebrated in Valencia.

But for the PP it was not enough. « There is fear that Sánchez will deceive us and a lot of pressure from the toughest sectors on the right, » analyzes a popular leader, who recalls that in this context the PP « does not want to give Bazas to Vox, now that they are so bad. » « The message is: we have tried, but with Sánchez it is impossible, » he interprets this leader, while in the party there are doubts about whether the will to negotiate the dome was real or from the beginning it has been a staging.

In this situation, the analysis they do in the Moncloa is that Feijóo is very uncomfortable for the internal pressures of federations such as the PP of Madrid, contrary to agreeing anything that links them with Pedro Sánchez after baseing their strategy on a confrontation on which the truce does not exist, and the Vox dependence to approve the budgets in large part of the communities chaired by the PP. « They are taking the steps so that there is no agreement, » summarizes a heavyweight from the government that predicts the soul of the PP that represents Miguel Tellado, the spokesman and whip of Feijóo in Congress, It will be imposed to the most enable and moderate current embodied by the Deputy Secretary of Economy, Juan Bravo.

The hesitations of the PP led to several ministers to urge him not to break the agreement and to behave as a state party, just as Feijóo has claimed since the beginning of the tariff crisis. « It is a crucial, very complex moment in the world and of course the Government will do what it has to do to defend Spain, its workers and its companies from both the European Commission and the political groups, » the Minister of Presidency observed, Felix Bolaños. « I hope it materializes (the pact) because it is required and needed. Our hand laid down, » Fernando Grande-Marlaska (Senate) (Senate), after another control session in the Senate in which there was no trace of the supposed truce. « Hopefully the PP is able to break the ultra -right and support the government once, » the Upper House with that desire Óscar López, Minister of Digital Transition and Secretary General of the PSOE of Madrid. « What happens is that we are not accustomed to the PP leading the shoulder such as in the tariff war. We wait for a PP to be a state party and that when there is a crisis that leads the shoulder and that it is capable of having a view of view, » said Monica García, Minister of Health and reference of more Madrid.

As far as all the government voices consulted coincide is that the Royal Decree does not jeopardize: « It is worked with the groups, » a minister is blunt. That is, when the time comes to validate it in Congress, it will not depend on the PP. Executive sources stressed that parliamentary groups are favorable to an agreement, and that the predisposition of the Government is to « build an response together, » as the Minister of Economy said after the Council of Ministers. And they blamed the reaction of the PP to the agreement between Junts and the Government, which denied that the Royal Decree establish regional quotas. The Autonomous Communities are summoned on Thursday to a sector meeting in which the Government will meet its demands.

Despite the contradictory messages of the PP, in the PSOE they do not expect the popular bench to join vox and vote against such a sensitive issue. Feijóo even valued the « successful elements » of the decree on Monday, to which the Government has added PP requests such as reducing the accounting moratorium and incorporation of the Autonomous Communities To dialogue. It had not passed one day and the « overact » of the PP according to another minister invited to think about a break and the return to hostilities. « Great that the PP sees the possibility of distancing himself from Vox. Welcome, » they reasoned at noon in the Moncloa before the PP was due to « expelled from the negotiating frame » to respond to the commercial war initiated by Donald Trump, ally of Santiago Abascal, after the government agreement with Junts.

The Government percuted against the apparently impossible position that Feijóo has to deal with: Vox pacts. “Welcome to be a change, if so, of attitude on the part of the PP. They lack a step already more and it is not less: unitary responses are needed and it is essential that by the PP that there is also an absolute breakup with those governing partners, partners of legislature, such as the outrages, which are the same that they want to break with Europe. The response that arrives also has to come from the unity of Europe and house very badly And yet, with the other hand, continue to hold in Vox, ”said Pilar Alegría, government spokesman and leader of the Aragon PSOE. The only criticism of the PP in the appearance after the Council of Ministers was carried out by Diana Morant in that same line: European Union and with Spanish producers or budgets are being agreed with the ultra-right.