Juntos warns Sánchez that "the time for change" has arrived.

MadridJunts' speech to Congress goes a step further. Míriam Nogueras asked Pedro Sánchez questions again this Wednesday in the control session, five weeks after the last time, when she warned that the "extension" could not last the entire legislature. "Perhaps there should be less talk about schedule changes and start talking about the time of change," proclaimed the spokesperson for the pro-independence party in Madrid, which has outlined a turning point in relations between the Spanish government and her party. Junts sources assure that this time the threat is serious and that in the coming days "things will happen."

At this point, there is no specificity about what this means. "Either he complies or he gives in. We cannot continue like this," assure Junts sources. Will the meetings in Switzerland end? Is Carles Puigdemont's party willing to support a motion of no confidence with the PP and Vox against Sánchez? Not at first, but they are considering ending their support for the Spanish government. Recently, the party's vice president, Toni Castellà, flirted with supporting an "instrumental" motion that would not replace Alberto Núñez Feijóo and instead opt for a president to call elections. He later reversed himself.

As long as there are no real options for a vote of no confidence to succeed, there is no excessive concern in the Moncloa Palace. Government sources see a certain "theatricality" and a "play on words" that do not constitute an ultimatum, they interpret. For the moment, the Spanish president has already made it clear that the legislature will continue even if he cannot pass a budget. In fact, he has noted for weeks that his parliamentary fragility no longer only has to do with Junts, but also with Podemos.

"Fed up"

Nogueras has mentioned that the Junts laws against multiple reoffending and against occupations are "blocked" in the parliamentary process, although government sources indicate that there is a possibility of reaching an agreement for the bill on multiple reoffending. The party sees how episodes are accumulating in which, in its opinion, they demonstrate that the negotiations with the Spanish government of the PSOE are not bearing fruit. The result, interprets Junts, is that for Catalonia it does not matter whether the Socialists or the PP govern.

"Many people are fed up with not making ends meet, while they see that taxes are not going to end the torture of Renfe, generate decent jobs, properly finance education or healthcare, or facilitate access to housing, but rather pay for bailouts of the little stars from the Flotilla, to illegal party financing, prostitution, parties or paying favors to some media outlets," he stated. It was the first time that Junts entered the muddy terrain that the PP and Vox raise in Congress and put the accusations of illegal financing and prostitution on the table. For his part, Sánch limited himself to defending the proposal to change the hours and that his is the government that has done the most for the self-employed "in the history of democracy."

It remains to be seen whether a split between Junts and Sánchez will materialize, as Sánchez clashed again with Alberto Núñez Feijóo on Wednesday. The PP leader tried to change strategy last week and, instead of emphasizing corruption while former minister José Luis Ábalos was appearing before the Supreme Court, focused on the controversy surrounding the self-employed. However, this Wednesday he returned to his usual hodgepodge. Feijóo mixed the problems of citizens' purchasing power with political spending "on 1,000 advisors," the time change, the Leire Díez case, the Koldo/Ábalos/Cerdán case and the lapse of this Tuesday Yolanda Díaz in the Senate when she spoke of the "corrupt government".

"You are a champion of slips of the tongue. Or is it that when you say that Huelva is in the Mediterranean or that [George] Orwell wrote 1984 in 1984 and not in 1949 is not a slip of the tongue, but rather a lack of culture?" Sánchez replied, escalating the debate into personal attacks. The PSOE is determined to question Feijóo's leadership, pointing out the lack of proposals and also criticizing the management of cancer screening in Andalusia by the PP regional presidents. "Data has disappeared from the medical records, they say it's a lie, and seven hours later it was a computer error. Poor management, cuts, and a lack of protection for citizens: that's their way of governing," Sánchez denounced.

"Catalan will be official in the EU"

In the control session, Esquerra has brought the case of a condemns Vic City Council for demanding too high a level of Catalan for a civil servant position with the aim of denouncing "discrimination" against Catalan speakers. "How can it be that so many legal practitioners so clearly and predeterminedly wage dirty war against Catalan speakers?" asked MP Francesc-Marc Álvaro. The Minister of Justice, Félix Bolaños, made a staunch defense of the "vast majority" of judges and magistrates, emphasized that Catalan is commonly spoken in Congress, and predicted that the language will be an official language in the EU. "I don't know when, but it will be, have no doubt," he asserted, despite the fact that it was not discussed at the last General Affairs Council of the European Union. nor is it planned to be carried out in the short term.