It was at the beginning of the political process last year when Pedro Sánchez envisioned his idea of governing “with or without the aid of the legislature”: remaining in power with his back to the national sovereignty that lay with Cortes, whose calculations, as … This is what happened, he did not have time to develop legislative projects. The CEO takes the lead and ministers follow his resistance playbook, which now includes developing projects that do not need to pass through the House of Representatives, where government initiatives are counted in defeats. Increasing pensions and salaries of civil servants or increasing the minimum wage, measures with a strong electoral impact, is the way in which Sánchez opens up to his ministers to overcome the blockade of Congress and, at the same time, garner the votes necessary to enable the PSOE to achieve a result in the next general elections that will allow its Secretary General to save the furniture, in Ferraz or La Moncloa.
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