Since the legislative elections of July 23, Pedro Sanchez has been trying to obtain his reappointment as Prime Minister. The leader of the socialists has concluded a pact with the radical left Sumar, but he still has to convince the separatists to join a coalition.
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The Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) and the radical left Sumar have announced that they have reached an agreement for the formation of a “progressive government”, Tuesday October 24. Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez and Sumar leader Yolanda Diaz, current Minister of Labor, “finalized details of a pact” of government “resulting from negotiations initiated since the end of July”specified the two political parties in a press release.
The agreement signed between the PSOE and Sumar will serve as a framework “programmatic” see you next time “legislature”, specify the two parties, who plan to officially ratify it during the day, in the presence of the two political leaders. It includes in particular “advances” in the field of work, “like reducing working hours without loss of salary” And “the immediate implementation of a shock plan” against “youth unemployment”And “the upward revision of objectives” climate of Spain, they add.
Sanchez must obtain the support of the separatists
Pedro Sanchez came second in the legislative elections on July 23 behind the Popular Party (PP, right) of Alberto Núñez Feijóo. But the latter, deprived of an absolute majority, failed to form a coalition, opening the way to a new left-wing government. The agreement between the PSOE and Sumar represents an important step for the reappointment of Pedro Sanchez, who has governed in coalition with the far left since 2020.
But for this, Pedro Sanchez must still obtain the support of Basque separatists, in particular Bildu, a group considered to be the heir to the political showcase of the armed organization ETA (now dissolved), which has already made it known that she would vote for him to block the right. He also needs the support of Catalan separatists, and in particular Junts per Catalunya (JxCat), a group behind an abortive attempt at secession from Catalonia in 2017, whose leader Carles Puigdemont fled to Belgium to escape Spanish justice.
The latter, who have seven deputies, have upped the ante in recent weeks alongside the other Catalan independence party, the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC), in particular by demanding an amnesty for those responsible for the attempted secession of 2017. This request is denounced by the right and the far right, and criticized within the Socialist Party itself.