Only 13 days will have passed since the appearance of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, before the commission of inquiry of the The Koldo case in the Senate and the monographic debate on the “corruption of his family and his party” which will be held in Congress on Wednesday. If the PP has a more than sufficient majority to establish commissions of inquiry into what it deems appropriate, with its numerical capacity in Congress it will also be able to summon the head of the Executive. That’s what he did and Sánchez didn’t want to delay. First he will report on the latest European summits and then he will start an uncomfortable and harsh debate in which he will be politically accused of being the number one of a conspiracy of corruption and illegal financing of the PSOE, regarding the National Tribunal’s investigation into the use of Ferraz’s cash box for senior officials.
The president will not admit anything, but will defend the honesty of his wife, his brother, his party and himself. The PP will not tire of declaring him guilty and demanding that he call the elections, especially after Junts has closed the door on him, although we will see if it will be airtight. Sánchez’s trump card against the PP is the same one used in the last general elections of 2023, after popular pacts with Vox in several autonomous communities: the alternative government is the right and the far right. Not very original, but an unequivocal reality for the sums of the majorities, according to the interlocutors of the government coalition.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo does not like that the conditions for investing a president of his party in the Valencian Community exceed the framework of reconstruction after the Dana catastrophe of October 29, 2024. To their discomfort, Vox provides arguments to the left-wing opposition to proclaim that the far-right party leads the PP wanting to impose candidates but, above all, restrictive commitments on immigration and green policies. The negotiations will take place over the next ten days and, if it fails, elections will be held in March. Bad context for the Extremaduran election campaign on December 21, after which President María Guardiola and the Extremaduran PP would like to get rid of Abascal’s party. The campaign will take place with a very demanding ultra match in Valencia.
This dependence on Vox, which torments the PP, will be a central line of the government’s counterattack this Wednesday in the plenary session of Congress. Feijóo against Sánchez for corruption and brandishes what awaits the Spaniards if the right governs. “There is a well-articulated international far right and we must respond positively,” Sánchez said in an interview with EL PAÍS on Sunday, referring to the world situation, which he discusses with other Latin American and European leaders.
In this interview he states that he will run again in the 2027 elections, a declaration of intentions with which he responds to the request of the PP and Vox to call the elections and leave.
The harshness of the expressions that Feijóo and Abascal will use against him will set the tone, although the Government will be very attentive to the expressions of the rest of the groups, especially Junts, but also of the PNV. Basque nationalists so far believe that there is room to implement policies and agreements that interest them. It would be another thing if they came to consider that it is not worth being there just to be there, nationalist sources acknowledge.
The Government is not interested in the announcement of the dissolution of Junts, made official on Thursday, but it also knows that on some issues the Catalan pro-independence right will agree to speak and vote. Otherwise, in Catalonia they will have to give a lot of explanations to justify the rejection of measures that affect both Catalans and citizens of all communities. The ERC will be very vigilant and ready to denounce the behavior of Carles Puigdemont’s party.
But it won’t be just the Government that will pull Junts’ string towards him; also the PP. The first, clearly; the PP, across the wide range of shared socioeconomic interests. But without proclaiming it. The conjunction, when appropriate, will be evident in the scoreboard of the Congressional vote.
There shouldn’t be a slamming of the door in this week’s immediate voting. Junts agrees with the contents of the Customer Service Law; the law on Sustainable Mobility, the law on Social Economy and aid for ALS sufferers. After these, already discussed before the breakup, but not yet voted on, there will be others that will also be of interest and necessity to the Catalans, the Government claims to justify not considering the relationship definitively broken.
We must always take into account the impact of European court decisions on Junts. The Advocate General of the European Union will present his first conclusions on the amnesty law processes this Thursday 13. It’s about expressing your opinion on the consultations carried out by the Spanish courts. Doubts about whether the Spanish government acted in the general interest or whether it was a “self-amnesty” or whether there was a diversion of funds that harmed the interests of the European Union, among other pending issues. Any bad news for Junts coming from the Spanish or European courts is translated by the independentists as a “non-compliance” by Pedro Sánchez. For example, the unresolved amnesty for Puigdemont, without considering that it completely exceeds the capabilities of the executive.
