Political indigestion threatens. So, first of all. The year begins without any respite for the Government. With more than one still savoring the last piece of roscón, the Executive is already burning calories in frenetic negotiations to avoid inaugurating 2024 with severe blows in the locker room. The threats from parties that support governability such as Junts and Podemos to overthrow three decrees approved by the Minister council It would be a severe setback that would shake its stability. Post-Christmas heartburn added to refluxes such as the lack of agreement between Health and the communities on the use of the mask in health centers – a majority of regions rejected the obligation – or Labor with employers on the increase in the minimum wage.
And, as if that were not enough, the risk of experiencing a new natural disaster due to the dumping of pellets on the Galician coast, which has led to an exchange of reproaches and accusations between the regional and central executives.
“It’s all crazy.” This is how socialist sources describe the frenetic pace with which the PSOE and the Government have started the year. Several fires that threaten to burn the coalition. And they know it, which is why they have also decided to step on the accelerator, aware of the danger. The ministers Félix Bolaños and Yolanda Díaz contacted the PP to probe in extremis for support from the popular to their measures, since Junts’s scheme was not a bluff, at least until now. And in the absence of agreement with the CEOEthe Secretary of State for Labor, Joaquin Perez Reyissued an ultimatum to businessmen: if they do not agree on a 4% increase in the SMI, the Government and unions will impose a greater increase.
However, the path of PP He has no expectations for the Government and the socialists. “In order to hit the Executive, the PP is in favor of raising the electricity bill, lowering pensions, ending free transportation…”. Government sources justify the calls to the PP in that “we always talk to the groups when we have to carry out a real decree. We did it during the last legislature and we will do it in this one as well.” With the groups, less with Vox.
The January slope becomes a kind of queen stage for the Executive. He Tourmalet It is the approval of the three decrees approved in recent weeks by the Council of Ministers: the omnibus rule of Justice that Junts rejects on the grounds that it paralyzes the amnesty; the one who collects the new unemployment benefit; and the new anti-crisis package to address inflation and the economic situation derived from the war in Ukraine.