Sánchez sends a written proposal to Puigdemont after Díaz’s direct mediation with Waterloo

The last shot of Pedro Sánchez with Carles Puigdemont is called Yolanda Díaz. The leader of Sumar and Jaume Asens, Sumar’s designated chief negotiator with Waterloo and a personal friend of the former president, have moved in recent hours to try to convince Puigdemont to support the PSOE in the constitution of the Congress Table.

Díaz and Asens, as OKDIARIO has learned, spoke by phone with the founder of Junts per Catalunya to move their seven deputies from abstention to yes. The relevance of Puigdemont’s support is total because, without him, the PSOE will not gain control of the highest body of power in the Lower House or the investiture itself. Neither is the hypothetical coalition government between the PSOE and the Sumar conglomerate.

After having a telephone conversation this Wednesday, in the middle of the afternoon, the acting vice president called Moncloa and told Pedro Sánchez that he had to move. It was then that the PSOE understood that the negotiation of Félix Bolaños with Junts had been useless. The socialist leader, aware of the sensitivity of the situation, urged his own negotiators to “go with everything.” That is to say, to transfer even a document to Puigdemont to address the requests of Junts. The negotiation takes place in the most absolute secrecy and, at the close of this edition, these proposals had not come to light.

Díaz took the initiative in the negotiation with Junts outside of a PSOE that officially continues to deny Sumar as an interlocutor on its behalf. But reality is what it is and with a “completely castled” Puigdemont, the acting vice president made a move to soften up the former president. The movement has caused a reaction in the socialist and ERC ranks, which will not decide its vote until a few hours before the session in Congress. The night, they explain in Ferraz and in Waterloo, “will be long” and “with many emails.” In Junts it is not hidden that “mistrust exists” and they continue to look askance at “the trickster” of Sánchez. Almost at the edge of midnight in the PSOE nobody gave up, although the hard core of Junts had opted a few hours before for not supporting the election of Armengol.

Line with Waterloo

Sources close to Díaz confirm to this newspaper that the Sumar leader contacted Waterloo throughout the day on Wednesday. She did it, according to several sources “in a personal capacity”: she picked up the phone with Asens to “convince” the former president of the Generalitat of the “importance” of allowing a “progressive” Board in Congress. The seven pro-independence deputies are essential for Francina Armengol, former socialist president of the Balearic Islands and Pedro Sánchez’s candidate, to become president of Congress. A support that is of vital importance for the two parties that intend to form a government coalition, since without the control of the Board, the day-to-day life of the Executive is greatly diminished in the legislative process. The inhibition of the junteros, as OKDIARIO advanced a few days ago, would raise the number two of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, to the leadership of the Lower House.

Although in the last hours the leader of Sumar and Pedro Sánchez have exchanged some messages, in the PSOE they deny that Yolanda Díaz had acted at the request of the acting president of the Government. But the facts deny them. Well, the acting president of the Government changed his strategy after the mediation of Díaz. Ferraz, even so, insisted at the last minute that “everything he has done has been as leader of Sumar.” Díaz, practically disappeared during the negotiations for the Table, thus tries to achieve a bit of media focus. She trying to convince Puigdemont and thus becoming the key that she could save the candidacy of the socialist Armengol to preside over the Chamber. She scored a bit that “if she gets it, she will make Sánchez pay for it.”

Canarian Coalition

Although with Junts it has been Díaz who has tried to approach in the last hours, having verified the difficulty of reaching an agreement by Minister Félix Bolaños, the socialist minister and his entourage took advantage of yesterday Wednesday to try to soften up the Coalition Canary. Conscious in Moncloa that the abstention of Junts revalues ​​the vote of the nationalist deputy Cristina Valido to the maximum. The only deputy from the party that governs the Canary Islands together with the PP is essential for one block and another. Her support for the PP, with whom the Canary Islands Coalition jointly governs the archipelago, would make Cuca Gamarra president. Her abstention, however, would tie both blocks at 171 and the repetition would have to be repeated until a difficult tiebreaker was achieved.

In Coalición Canaria, at the close of this edition yesterday Wednesday, they accused the PSOE of “inactivity.” And especially they conveyed the discomfort of the regional president and party leader, Fernando Clavijo, for “the ninguneo” to which Pedro Sánchez has subjected him. For not having taken advantage of his stay in La Mareta (Lanzarote) to have courted a partner who may be essential for both the formation of the Board and the Government. It should be remembered that in previous years, with a socialist president at the helm of the Canarian government, Sánchez did meet with Clavijo’s predecessor Ángel Víctor Torres. Beyond that, in a second opportunity given this Wednesday by the nationalists to Sánchez, the PSOE refused to cede a seat to the PNV. Which caused the negotiations to practically break down. And they left in suspense the vote of CC.

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