The tariff decree is in the hands of Podemos after the PP refusal to support it | Spain

The government will sweat the shirt again this week to approve another key measure in Congress. He Decree on tariffs left the Council of Ministers last month in response to the commercial war unleashed by the administration of Donald Trump and whose negotiations has led the head of Economics, Carlos Body, must submit on Thursday to the examination of the lower house for his validation. The PP already announced last week that it broke the negotiations and this Monday has confirmed its rejection of the plan. With The groups on the left and together in favor of the measurethe rule is in the hands of Podemos, which this Monday has once again been critical of the government and has labeled the text of « insufficient ».

The PP showed its willingness to negotiate after the commercial offensive of the Trump administration, a kind of truce that lasted little and that began to crack when Junts made public support for government measures and reached an agreement that the popular ones called « separatist quota. » The text agreed with Junts establishes that the distribution of government measures to deal with tariffs will be carried out respecting territorial balance. The official confirmation of the NO of the PP has arrived this Monday, a month later, through who has been the negotiator with the Ministry of Economy, the person responsible for this area in Genoa, Juan Bravo. In a press conference at the headquarters of the PP, Bravo has criticized that the Government considers that the proposals of the PP are not « adequate » and do not want to accept them. « If the PSOE does not want to accept the proposals made from the PP, it will obviously not have the support of the PP and will have the negative vote for that royal law, » he said.

Ione Belarra’s party, which with its four deputies in the mixed group has the ability to put the executive’s plan in check, has not yet clarified the meaning of its vote, but claims a much more « forceful » response, in the words of its spokesman and responsible for organization, Pablo Fernández, this Monday at a press conference. The leader has considered « unfortunate » that the government responds « subordinating to Trump’s orders. » The package approved by the coalition is valued at 14,100 million euros and aims to cushion the blow to the most exposed sectors, as well as take advantage of the crisis to modernize the country’s productive structure. We can claim that the government decree includes the expropriation of the homes of the North American vulture funds, as well as the actions of this type of entities that operate in the IBEX-35.

Coportovoz explained that, for the moment, the government has not contacted them to negotiate, although on Wednesday of last week the own own Body He starred in a round of telematic meetings with the spokesmen of the groups attended by the economic head of Podemos, Jacinto Morano, and after which the formation did not want to perform any type of assessment. Podemos’s votes are crucial and it is already common for negotiation with the Executive to reach the last minute. In the past, his refusal made the decree of the unemployment subsidy for over 52 years, of the department of Yolanda Díaz fall.

From Barcelona, ​​in the Opening of the Annual Meeting of Calle d’acusiathe president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has called for the groups to support the text next Thursday, and has asked the PP to « leave excuses » and give « the face and not the back by his country, his companies and his workers » at a time that he has described as « critical. »

Also at a press conference, the spokesman to add, Ernest Urtasun, has asked the groups, and in particular to the popular, « an exercise of responsibility » and to vote « thinking about the country and not in partisan interests. » « The government has reacted well and fast to the plan of tariffs to protect the industry (…) It is not serious to link the vote (to this decree) to the elongation of the life of nuclear. It is out of place, » said the Minister of Culture, who has stressed that those who oppose will have to « explain » to the citizenship.