Yolanda Díaz now says that she is "far from an agreement" with Sánchez and refuses to clarify her vote in the investiture
The second vice president of the acting Government, Yolanda Díaz, now affirms that “she is far” from reaching an agreement with Pedro Sánchez to be part of his future Executive and, in this sense, she has refused to clarify the vote of her 31 deputies in the face of a foreseeable attempted investiture of the socialist. The leader of Sumar has come forward with these statements after the meeting she held this afternoon with the King within the framework of the round of consultations called by the Monarch to designate a new candidate for the investiture.
Díaz has explained that since last August he placed on the socialist leader's table a document with a long list of proposals that, if accepted, would allow him to accept being part of the future Executive.. It is about this document that she assures that there is still no agreement although she hopes that the negotiations will reach a successful conclusion soon.
The position maintained today by Díaz is interpreted as a kind of staging with a view to ensuring a substantial presence of his party in an eventual Government chaired by Pedro Sánchez.
Yolanda Díaz has assured, in fact, that we will “get a progressive Government” although she has stated that “the positions are still far away”. “Today there is no agreement,” he insisted before warning that his party is not satisfied “with what was achieved in the last legislature.”
Its objective, as it has explained, is to launch a social agenda that “gains rights and is plurinational.”. It would be about expanding labor rights, achieving “fiscal democracy”, negotiating a new regional financing system and bringing forward Spain's commitments in the fight against climate change to 2030.
For his part, the president of UPN, Javier Esparza, has conveyed to King Felipe VI the negative vote of his party, which has a seat in Congress, to a foreseeable attempt at the investiture of Pedro Sánchez “with Otegi, with Puigdemont and with Junqueras” and has insisted that under these conditions the best thing for Spain would be a repeat election.
For her part, the representative of the Canarian Coalition in the Chamber, Cristina Valido, second to attend the La Zarzuela meeting, has expressed to the head of State that at the moment “there is no contact or any negotiation” between her party and the PSOE. So it is not possible to anticipate an affirmative vote for Sánchez's investiture.. CC would “like to wait” to see what the PSOE's approaches are in relation to the Canarian agenda and its proposal for a possible amnesty law.
For the leader of UPN, Javier Esparza, it is impossible to share an investiture in which there are the independentists who intend to break up the country and, in the case of Basque nationalism, annex Navarra and then undertake secession.
“An alleged amnesty and similar does not fit in the Spanish Constitution and Pedro Sánchez has even said that. The socialists were convinced of a position until the moment arrived when they needed the votes of the Catalan independentists,” stressed the Navarrese politician who, in this sense, remembers all the occasions in which Sánchez has spoken out frontally against the amnesty. and self-determination, the last three days before the 23-J elections.
“The amnesty will legitimize those who carried out a coup d'état, those who attacked Spanish democracy,” he warned.. “The independence movement is insatiable and the PSOE should know it. The rule of law (in the event that an amnesty law or similar is approved) must protect us”, maintains the Navarrese politician for whom it is evident that “if the PSOE did not need these votes it would be defending that the amnesty does not fit in the Constitution , that Puigdemont is a fugitive who must appear before Justice and that a self-determination referendum is illegal.”
Esparza also emphasized the “submission” that Bildu is showing to Sánchez and suspects that this is because it has reached an agreement with the socialists “behind the scenes” that it does not want to reveal.
Cristina Valido, spokesperson for CC, in her meeting with the King. POOL
Behind him, the Canarian Coalition deputy, Cristina Valido, recalled that her party opposes a Government that gives entry to extremists and also a possible amnesty law.. However, given the lack of contact with the PSOE, the Canarian representative has confessed that she is unable to ensure what her party's position will be if, as everything indicates, Sánchez is appointed by Felipe VI to request the confidence of the Chamber.
CC's predisposition “is to always talk,” he said, but as at the moment there is no dialogue, “neither a yes nor a no to Sánchez's aspiration can be anticipated.”. Valido has suggested that perhaps the lack of contact with the PSOE is due to the fact that he no longer considers its support necessary to carry out the investiture.. In short, the socialist leader has already been able to close a pact with other parties – independence and nationalists – to obtain support for his investiture.
Finally, in the morning round of consultations, Felipe VI received the PNV spokesperson in Congress, Aitor Esteban. The PNV has not revealed the content of the conversation that Aitor Esteban had with Felipe VI.
An approach identical to that expressed by the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, who was the last to meet with the Monarch on this Tuesday afternoon. Abascal, however, has assured that he has conveyed his “concern about the collective price that a new investiture of Sánchez would entail”, in relation to the cost that the amnesty and a new referendum would have for our country.
“A politician amnesty another politician is an unparalleled act of corruption,” considered the leader of Vox, who has announced that his party will vote against an investiture led by the PSOE.