Together and the difficult relationship with Sánchez

PP, Vox and Junts yesterday demanded Sánchez's resignation or that he submit to a confidence vote through a vote that has no practical value because Sánchez will neither resign nor submit to a confidence vote. The vote has political value, of course, because 3 years ago Junts voted in favor of Sánchez's investiture and yesterday asked him to step down in a vote. And at the same time, it is no victory for the PP, because it does not have Junts's votes for a motion of censure which, that one sí, could bring down Sánchez. And despite everything, yesterday, at the moment of the results, both benches were shouting and applauding.

The socialists applauded Sánchez and the populars shouted “resignation”, which, in fact, is the only thing they can do, shout. The situation therefore continues to be one of absolute deadlock: neither the PSOE can approve a budget nor the PP a motion of no confidence.

Junts's position, not because it is known, does not cease to surprise: the day before yesterday, the Junts group in the Senate abstained in the vote on a PP motion that asked for the same, elections. And yesterday, on the contrary, they voted in favor. And between those two days, Junts proposed through Míriam Nogueras that Sánchez do a Starmer, or a Mas, a step aside, to invest a socialist president who would call elections next year. Junts wants and hurts. And if it doesn't make Feijóo president, it's not only because the PP is with Vox, but because despite Sánchez's evident limitations in applying the amnesty law, it is better that the presidency of the Spanish government is still in the hands of the party that brought it to Congress than in the hands of the PP, which has made opposing it a reason for living. From a political, and even personal, point of view, the Junts-PSOE relationship, that is, Puigdemont-Sánchez, is irreparably broken. Yesterday, at Junts, someone who is in the know told me: “Sánchez shouldn't be so arrogant and underestimate us so much”. So far, then, a story that began on a crazy election night when parties and journalists started doing the math and realized that if the 7 deputies from Junts wanted, Sánchez, the loser of the elections, could be president.

Junts knew that the only opportunity to bring Puigdemont back was Sánchez, willing to take the amnesty to Congress despite having said it was not legal (and Illa's remark about “no amnesty or anything like that”).

Meanwhile, you will remember that yesterday we told you that what was coming would not be a change of government but a change of party system, with a PSOE more obedient to the system. So you can see where we are, yesterday Vox tried to get Congress to reform the electoral law to prevent fraud in postal voting. We are now where Donald Trump is: in case of defeat, to say that the election result is seasoned. Even the PP said that one thing is to distrust the government and another is to distrust the electoral system. But the Spanish political week ends with an even weaker Sánchez and the society's problems to attend to.Good morning.