Pedro Sánchez, acting President of the Government, announced this Friday in Brussels that the PSOE will include in its consultation with the militancy regarding the Government agreement reached with Sumar a question to find out if the bases support negotiating with other political formations to achieve the majority necessary for the investiture, although this question will not include any details about the possible agreements with Junts per Catalunya and Esquerra Republicana. Sánchez has argued that the negotiation requires discretion and that in said consultation it would not be possible to go into the details of all the negotiations to achieve the parliamentary majority..

The socialist leader has indicated that in 2019 it was already established that the consultation would deal only with whether the militancy supports the agreement with the parties that will be part of the Council of Ministers, but not the pacts with the rest of the political formations of the majority. parliamentary. However, Sánchez explained that this time a question will be included to know if the militancy “endorses” these parliamentary agreements, without mentioning the amnesty demanded by Junts and ERC.. With the support of the militancy for the blind negotiation, without knowing the exact conditions, although knowing that the socialist leader has already admitted that the amnesty is being negotiated, Sánchez will be able to argue that the militants bless the agreements necessary to obtain the majority.

“We cannot go into more detail,” Sánchez defended, explaining that the negotiations are taking place with Junt, ERC, Bildu, BNG, PNV and the Canarian Coalition, and that he cannot include all the details of said negotiations in the consultation.. But “we did incorporate this second part that was not included in 2019 so that we can all position ourselves on whether or not we agree on reaching that parliamentary majority that allows an investiture,” he said during a press conference after finishing a European summit in in which the heads of State and Government have addressed the situation in the Middle East, the migratory crisis or the review of the Multiannual Financial Framework of the European Union.

“Why do we formulate it in these terms? First, because we want the militancy to actually speak out on the parliamentary agreements we have with the rest of the political forces and secondly, because we cannot go into more detail, because obviously we are in that negotiation process not only with Junts per Catalunya “, with Esquerra Republicana, but also with the Basque Nationalist Party, with the Galician National Bloc, with Bildu or also with the Canarian Coalition,” said Sánchez, explaining why they do not detail the content of the possible agreements with these forces..

Asked about the opinion expressed by Emiliano García-Page, president of Castilla-La Mancha, who has been against the amnesty, Sánchez responded that “the party is going to speak.”. “The Socialist Party is going to speak. And he's going to talk like he usually does. We are a democratic organization. I am not going to say that we are the most democratic organization in the Spanish political system, but almost. We are. Because there is debate, both inside and outside the bodies of the Socialist Party,” he assured..

“I have the confidence, furthermore, the absolute and resounding confidence, because I have spoken with many of the cadres of the Socialist Party, that the support is going to be very important,” added the President of the Government, who in any case has expressed that “The members of the Socialist Party can express themselves, as it could not be otherwise, freely and with all the respect of the Federal Executive Commission and, of course, the general secretary”.

Sánchez, who once again recalled the axes on which the agreement with Sumar revolves, has placed special emphasis on the idea of coexistence and “the normalization of the political situation in Catalonia”. “What we do will always be consistent with what we have been doing over the last five years.”. And I also believe that the results are there. Today Catalonia's situation has nothing to do with what we inherited in 2018,” he concluded..