Five days are left for Congress to debate and vote on labor reform. A crucial session in this equator of the legislature and not yet resolved, although the two partners of the Government are confident of being able to carry it out. The accounts with which socialists and purples work are not the same. While the latter have no choice but to approve it with the investiture partners, Pedro Sánchez’s party opens the door and calls for “widening majorities”, without underestimating the support of the nine deputies of Citizens. Moreover, right now, and given the rejection of ERC, the most feasible scenario is a very tight vote and that the decree law is validated thanks to the support of Inés Arrimadas and small formations.
The president took advantage of his first stop in yesterday’s Castilla y León campaign to increase the pressure on the groups. Sanchez insisted that they must confirm the text, because it is an “agreement” and not an “imposition” as was the case when the PP ruled. A message that spread back to the PP. He already told Pablo Casado on Wednesday when he asked him about Ukraine: Sanchez demands a vote in favor or at least abstain. But he won’t have it.
The executive leader recalled that the motion of censure against Mariano Rajoy in 2018 was little more than a “motion against corruption” of the PP. It also meant “a new stage in the way politics is done”, marked by relaxation and dialogue. Also with the social agents, after a practically barren time in pacts with the PP. Social dialogue, he noted, “is not just a means, but an end.” “We do not impose, we agree, and we do it because we govern for the social majorities of our country, which feel better represented in the agreements and not in the impositions,” he remarked.
Thus, she reviewed the agreements with the educational community, with feminism to promote the renewal of the state pact against gender violence, with pensioners … and «with workers, approving a labor reform that puts an end to counter-reform of 2012 and 2013 ”of the PP. He demanded that the people vote in favor and abstain. “Let them do it, because this is not the agreement of the government, nor is it the agreement of only the employers or the unions. It is the agreement of all of us. From the employers, from the unions, and also from the Government of Spain. It is not the agreement that the PSOE would have wanted, nor what the unions or employers would have wanted. But precisely because of this, because it is the agreement in which we all feel represented, it is the agreement that the workers deserve “, he defended.
Sanchez appealed to the PP, but his message was also addressed to other forces. The government believes it has already done its job, which was to “rebuild the consensus broken” by the Conservatives, and now that the agreement is woven, Congress cannot undo it. Hence, the Socialists say they do not want to touch a single comma, nor do they accept the option offered by Vice President Yolanda Díaz to partners to change points in the labor market outside the decree. They argue that any retouching must always be done with the consent of employers and workers. The president does not want to risk the employer taking off, and she has already stated that she will not tolerate any change.
According to Sánchez, the reform combats the two main ills of the labor market, precariousness and structural unemployment. “Therefore, I tell the PP that it was a mistake to impose during the 2010s a counter-reform that devalued wages and precarious labor relations. Let them not make the double mistake of voting against a reform agreed between the social agents and the Government “, he concluded.