Pedro Sánchez faces the end of 2025 in a sort of dissociation from reality. On the one hand, it attempts to project normalcy. It sends a message of continuity, with an invariable road map, despite the succession of corruption cases and the controversies linked to situations of sexual harassment. … within the PSOE. On the other hand, he tries to ease the uneasiness of certain investiture partners who are starting to show signs of wear and tear. In Moncloa, they work with protection: “He who breaks pays”. In other words, they believe that none of their allies are ready to assume the cost of being responsible, not only for the fall of the government, but also for the advent of the PP-Vox agreement. “It would be the greatest historical error,” warned the president during his assessment.
However, several parties are already considering what incentives they have to continue supporting Sánchez. How long is this sustainable? Although they want to convey an image of stoicism, the truth is that in Moncloa they are fully aware of the growing unrest that exists among their allies and are working to try to quell it, accelerating compliance with outstanding issues.
The dynamic that operates for Junts, seeking a “window of opportunity” to rebuild bridges of understanding through the materialization of unfulfilled commitments, also becomes effective for the rest of the partners. The meeting with Oriol Junqueras that Pedro Sánchez will already schedule in 2026 is a gesture of important political weight and a decisive step in normalization in Catalonia. In the same spirit, the decision to promote Catalonia and the Basque Country join UNESCO and the World Tourism Organizationa space that gives them a state profile that seeks to attract Junts, ERC and PNV.
It is also not insignificant that this Tuesday the joint commission between the State and the Basque Country was activated for next December 29, during which transfers of skills will continue, in this case, with regard to non-contributory and unemployment benefits. Basque nationalists have been very tough these days, demanding that Sánchez call elections if he fails to stop the “bleeding” of corruption cases. We note a lesser involvement of the president with regard to his partners in Sumar.
In Moncloa, the order that the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, decided to issue last week, asking Sánchez for something he does not want to grant, was very badly felt, because it was inappropriate: a large reshuffle of the executive. In the socialist part of the government, there is open talk of an “error” on the part of the Minister of Labor, who now believes that the solution is to request an internal meeting. The Cabinet has neglected the relevance of the appointment, ensuring that it regularly organizes these types of meetings, even if it is ready to “listen”.
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It is for this reason that, although with little enthusiasm, the PSOE responded to the request and will propose the meeting for this week, as ABC has learned. However, this reduces it to a simple inter-party meeting and not a coalition follow-up meeting, as Sumar plans. A PSOE delegation is expected, probably led by the Organizing Secretary and replacement for Santos Cerdán, the Valencian Rebeca Torró.
On the side of the minority partner, at the closing of this edition it had not yet been decided which characters would represent the space, although the meeting was a joint request of the four political forces of the Plurinational Group that sit in the Council of Ministers: Movimiento Sumar, IU, Más Madrid and Comuns. Everyone wanted to express this Tuesday their discomfort with the president and his party in a joint press conference in Congress in which, in addition to demanding this urgent bilateral summit to “relaunch” the government, they demanded to be participants in the meetings that the PSOE will now hold with the rest of the partners of the inauguration bloc, such as, for example, the one planned for January between the leader of the ERC, Oriol Junqueras, and Sánchez himself. “The Government is two, not one, principal partner. We did not cause this problem, but we are committed to solving it,” they defend,
Regardless, Sumar affirms that he is not willing to carry the internal crisis of the PSOE on his back, nor, even less, to support an executive that is “corrupt shameless people.” Much ado for nothing. While affirming the above, those in Díaz fall into their own contradiction in advocating remaining in government. “We want to save it, not get out of it,” space sources defend. The reason, to prevent at all costs that the PP and Vox tandem reaches La Moncloa and continues in power. The one considering withdrawing its support from Sánchez is the Chunta Aragonesista, whose only national deputy, Jorge Pueyo, disrupted Sumar’s speech yesterday and warned that his patience was “reaching its limits”.
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