The PSOE and the PP will join their votes to modify article 49 of the Constitution. The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has accepted the conditions that Alberto Núñez Feijóo has set for him to proceed with the change, as the opposition leader has advanced after the meeting that the two held this Friday.

In this way, the reform will be limited to eliminating the word “disabled” from the Magna Carta to replace it with “people with disabilities” and will not be able to be submitted to citizen consultation once it has been approved by Congress in a monographic plenary session that will be held. will call in the month of January. Furthermore, if other parliamentary groups presented amendments they would only be accepted if the two majority parties agree.

The PP -137 seats- and the PSOE -121- can modify article 49 without the help of other parties since the union of their 258 parliamentarians comfortably exceeds the three-fifths majority of Congress -210 yeses- required to be able to change the Constitution. Genoa's fear was that, subsequently, 35 deputies would request to submit this modification to a “referendum”, which could be used de facto by the pro-independence forces as a kind of plebiscite on the validity of the Magna Carta..

For this option to be viable, the participation of Sumar would be essential.. Although all the forces inclined to the sovereign theses united their votes to request the consultation – seven ERC, seven Junts, six EH Bildu, five PNV and one BNG – and even had the support of the five members of Podemos who have gone to the Mixed Group would only reach 31, so they would be left in the hands of the space led by Yolanda Díaz to obtain authorization to request citizen endorsement.

For this reason, in the item on the agenda with which Feijóo attended the meeting this Friday in which this matter is addressed, it appears that the PSOE will ask its coalition partner for “express resignation” and “in writing “to call a referendum “to proceed with the urgent reform of the modification of article 49”. Likewise, that the reform will be limited to the replacement of the word “disabled”, as the two majority parties had already agreed in the last legislature, an agreement that ended up in the drawer due to the call for early elections.

As the leader of the PP later explained in a press conference, the commitment also includes presenting the proposal in Congress with the signature of the two formations before December 31 so that it is approved in a monographic plenary session with this single issue that “if possible” will be held next month. “To all of that the answer was yes,” he assured.