Spain The "dialectical escalation" between PSOE and Podemos goes beyond the purpose of La Moncloa to prevent it from taking over the Council of Ministers

The reform of the law of only yes is yes to increase the penalties and avoid reductions and lighter sentences for new sexual offenders has brought the government coalition to the brink of the precipice

Spain The "dialectical escalation" between PSOE and Podemos goes beyond the purpose of La Moncloa to prevent it from taking over the Council of Ministers

The reform of the law of only yes is yes to increase the penalties and avoid reductions and lighter sentences for new sexual offenders has brought the government coalition to the brink of the precipice. The clash, the confrontation and the attacks have reached heights never seen before. Yesterday, the PSOE accused Podemos of "unpresentable and irresponsible." The purple ones accused the socialists of "betrayal of feminism" and of leading an "applause of shame" together with the PP and Vox.

This serious crisis and the electoral horizon suggest that the storm will no longer subside in the Executive. The fear is that this "dialectical escalation" will reach the Council of Ministers, something that government sources state has not yet happened and they are confident that it will not happen. A desire that, they understand in the PSOE, shares Yolanda Díaz, who this Tuesday showed her anger in Congress Because then, the thin thread that links the co-government ... But the truth is that the harsh exchange of reproaches goes beyond that objective .

In La Moncloa, now that its reform has gone ahead and that this difficult-to-digest situation is over, they are going to focus on trying to reduce the tension, calm the decibels because, after all, their objective has been achieved. Sánchez evaluated the cost of taking the initiative from him with the PP and that the coalition would fracture in the vote or not undertake its purpose of raising the penalties by introducing violence or intimidation as a subtype. And he chose what and not with whom, it was important to "solve the problem" and not hand in hand with whom to solve it.

In La Moncloa they did not want to confirm the atmosphere experienced in the Council of Ministers. "The social environment is much more important than the environment in the Council of Ministers," settled Isabel Rodríguez, spokesperson for the Executive. This rarefied atmosphere was further charged with an appearance after the cabinet meeting in which three socialist ministers appeared, making the most of the government's feminist agenda and without making an appearance, unlike other years in the run-up to 8-M, the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero.

The thick and unrestrained words poured out between the partners in Congress were completed with the image of the ministers Irene Montero and Ione Belarra alone on the government bench, without the presence of any cabinet mate during the entire debate. Close to the time of the vote, only Yolanda Díaz attended. In La Moncloa they circumscribe all these affronts and slights within the framework of the parties and the parliamentary debate. They do not want to conceive that the clash is made explicit directly in the Council of Ministers. "We are not going to contribute to the clash," they now say from the presidential complex. That is the slogan: do not feed the clash.

Government sources defend that this crisis "does not affect future initiatives" of the Executive. That is the belief you want to have. They want to understand that the "feminist" and "progress" agenda of the Executive is "much more important than any technical-legal discrepancy", which is how they qualify the differences with Podemos in the reform of the only yes is yes, while Montero speaks of discrepancy policy.

Not a simple purpose, in view of the qualifiers that have been used in the last few hours by each other. The intention of La Moncloa is to carry out damage control three months before the municipal and regional elections, but the discomfort in the socialist sector with purple is not hidden because they consider that what was at stake yesterday was the question of "who wants to solve the problem" and before that we had to "raise our hand". "How can we solve the problem?", he ironized in the socialist sector of the Executive, recalling that although proposals have been sent to them, none are publicly known.

This discomfort, which was increasing in the socialist sector after seeing the intervention and the words of Podemos in Congress, is evident in the fact that the official agenda of Pedro Sánchez for this 8-M does not contemplate attending the Institutional act of the Ministry of Equality on the occasion of 8M. An appointment that did appear on his agenda in 2021 and an appointment that he could not attend in 2022 because he was visiting Latvia to visit the Spanish troops deployed at the Adazi base (Riga), within the framework of a mission of NATO to reinforce the security of the Baltic country.

The official government agenda, sent to the media on Tuesday night, includes the attendance of the President of the Government at 09:00 a.m. at the control session in Congress and at 10:30 a meeting with women managers, at the Complex from Moncloa. The PSOE forecasts do not include any presence of Sánchez and the attendance of up to eight ministers at the march on the occasion of International Women's Day.

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