Subscribe here: [ Ссылка ] This Wednesday, Spain's Congress of Deputies is to vote on three decree-laws containing economic anti-crisis measures. But Pedro Sánchez does not have the necessary support to pass them. Pro-independence Together for Catalonia (Junts) and alternative left Podemos, who both supported Sánchez's investiture as prime minister in November, are for the moment planning to vote no; to the point that the Socialists (PSOE) have opened a communications channel with the opposition People's Party (PP). But, at the moment, the PP is not showing any signs of offering mercy to its eternal rival either. Issues ranging from the Catalan amnesty to the price of meat and fish might have to be tackled in order to defuse the conflict that the PSOE has open with its supposed parliamentary partners as well as with the main party of the right. Another way forward could be to transform the decree law - which has to be voted as a straight yes-no vote, with no amendment possible - into a proposal for a parliamentary law, since the Socialists do not close the door on making additions to these texts after they come out of the cabinet room.
The first reason for the discord: an attack on the amnesty law. One of the three decree-laws in the package contains a pill that Junts does not want to swallow: it modifies the law on civil justice procedure in a way that allows the Spanish judiciary to put the amnesty for independence process prosecutions on standby until the European Court of Justice pronounces on the preliminary questions raised. This could undermine the law, as a pronouncement from Europe could easily take up to two years. Jordi Turull already warned ElNacional.cat in an interview on Sunday that for now Junts's no to these decree laws is "enormous".
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