Junts Announces Total Legislative Blockade Amid Rupture with PSOE

«Catalonia is doing very well» with this Government, he replied at the same time as he challenged him to bring down, among other laws, the permits for death.Junts decided to sharpen its rupture upon seeing that Sánchez was not reacting.Last week, when Carles Puigdemont announced the break with the PSOE in Perpignan (France), Pedro Sánchez had known for a month that his relationship with his partners was as good as dead.Junts continues to distance itself from the option of a motion of no confidence and bets on forcing Sánchez to call early elections.Source:ABCThe decision to plunge the legislature into a deadlock is received in Moncloa as a defensive move against the advance of Aliança Catalana, the party led by Silvia Orriols, while Junts seeks to get the Government to move after the rupture announced in Perpignan (France).The PSOE believes Junts is reacting to upcoming adverse polls.Junts has put 'check' to the legislature, but still has not 'checkmated' Pedro Sánchez.Just as between Zapatero's warning and the execution of the Brussels agreement, between the divorce referendum and the more radical decision to present a total amendment to all laws, Junts also gave a few days of leeway to see if the PSOE and 'if Sánchez reacted'.The first to speak out, and probably the one who strayed the most from the herd yesterday, was United Left (IU), the faction with the most weight in the ecosystem that lives to the left of the PSOE.This is the reading that the PSOE makes after the latest showdown of Carles Puigdemont's supporters, announcing the 'blockade' of all initiatives the Government has in the pipeline to pass in the Cortes, including the State General Budget.The fear of a new adverse poll that would raise the expectations of Aliança Catalana would be lethal symbolically for Puigdemont's supporters.During those almost four weeks of leeway that the separatists gave the Prime Minister to try to steer the situation, without the divorce being finalized yet, Sánchez 'did nothing, we thought he was bluffing'.And the same thing happened again last week until today.On the same Thursday that the seven-day mark of Junts' consultation with its bases, which endorsed with more than 86% the decision to nullify the Brussels agreement signed by Santos Cerdán and Jordi Turull at the end of 2023, expired, the spokeswoman in Congress, Míriam Nogueras, along with her fellow deputies and senators, appeared yesterday in a room of the Lower House to announce that the post-convergents were taking another step in their opposition to Sánchez.'Explain how you intend to govern and move forward,' she challenged Díaz, who did not hesitate to enter into the provocation and, in addition, as this newspaper was able to learn, had already more than meditated the reprimand she would launch at the post-convergent parliamentarian in whatever his intervention.If, with water up to his neck, the head of the Executive showed concern and sought a solution to the problem his cabinet is in at the midpoint of the legislature, he passed it on to his envoy, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, upon returning from a meeting with the international mediator in Switzerland, after hearing Puigdemont verbalize that 'we have come this far'.Until then, the so-called alternative left will continue to reduce everything to a staged performance and an 'apparent' blockade.To this was added yesterday the face-off between Yolanda Díaz and the Junts deputy Josep María Cervera, who also tried to stage his rupture with Moncloa with the Sumar leader in the Lower House's Labor Committee. Related standard news If Official secrets, the intern's statute or the 'Bolaños law': the 24 norms blocked by Junts Joan Guirado. The Puigdemont group is taking action and causing the break with the PSOE, announced and endorsed by its bases, to leave the legislature in 'total deadlock'. The post-convergents have gone from not answering the phone at Ferraz or sitting down to negotiate laws as a result of that break, leaving their vote in favor or against depending on each vote, to directly blocking all the Executive's legislative action. Although they do aspire for the Prime Minister to 'comply', even acknowledging that 'that is too much to ask of him', with 'all the things that had been agreed upon before the break'. The post-convergents retain an important political capital: their seven votes are key for a motion of no confidence presented by Alberto Núñez Feijóo to prosper. The European Court of Human Rights yesterday upheld the preventive prison of Junqueras, Turull, and Sánchez, and the Puigdemont group was obliged to react. Not to get into the fray or disavow their threats, even though they have no chance of success. As long as the option of ousting Sánchez from power is not on the table—and Junts' interlocutors so assure their government counterpart—there is no cause for concern. With the aim of achieving the prebends negotiated beforehand, such as the obligation to serve all state companies in Catalan, the Nogueras group will vote in favor of some laws and royal decrees that were agreed upon before last week. The Prime Minister has ordered the official spokespeople to 'take care' of Puigdemont, that is, to avoid any public statement that might bother his party. But it was upon seeing that he did not, that 'he has not even explained this week how he intends to govern without a majority that approves his things,' that yesterday the Junts group decided to step on the gas and settle into the fiercest opposition. The Carles Puigdemont group completely rules out any rapprochement with the Socialist Party 'as long as Sánchez is at the helm.' 'Trust has been completely broken because he has deceived us too many times,' explains a leading party member. IU thus joins the socialists' theory that the only material translation of their ultimatums would be to support a motion of no confidence with PP and Vox, something the conservatives themselves ruled out yesterday for not having the support tied up. Or at least, that is how it is understood in Moncloa. Sumar puts pressure. On Sumar, the minority partner of the coalition, the directive given by the PSOE to contain itself before the provocations of Carles Puigdemont's group in Congress seemed to go in one ear and out the other. And the second, and most important, the Opinion Studies Center (CEO) is carrying out the fieldwork for its autumn barometer, which is published in mid-November. The first, the blow from European justice to the 'procés'. They are a set of measures that, in the opinion of the post-convergents, are part of the 'list of debts' that 'the Socialist Party has with Catalonia.' Now, although the diagnosis is shared, prudence prevails and an attempt is made to create a landing strip for another ultimatum with no practical effect, given that Junts is not going to bring down the Government. In Moncloa they assume that the onslaughts of Junts are not aimed at the Executive, but are directed at Aliança Catalana. Then, several ministers dismissed the challenge, assuring that it only sought media attention and was 'a round phrase for the news bulletin.' They have understood that they must play a role, as a concerned party, in this choreographed showdown that the post-convergents need to stage to get rid of the threat from Sílvia Orriols. 'You have lost the majority that made you possible as Second Vice President.' Your federal coordinator, Antonio Maíllo, did not talk about 'round phrases for the news bulletin,' but about 'fireworks that change nothing' to refer to Junts' latest move. A nuclear button that, for now, they are not willing to press. Specifically, sources consulted by ABC contextualize the last salvo of the separatists in a double circumstance. If this does not happen, they say, 'we will have to see what other tools we have in our hands.' This represents a substantial change in attitude compared to the angry reaction the Executive deployed when the independence spokeswoman in Congress, Míriam Nogueras, announced that 'the time for change had come.'