The defeat in Congress, not for not being expected, has been hard upside down for Carles Puigdemont. Losing that vote has sent him a clear sign that his margin of influence on the Government of Pedro Sánchez begins to crack. The proposition of the law to delegate to the Generalitat competencies on immigration, agreed between Junts and the PSOE, has been rejected in the lower house by 177 votes compared to 173. Beyond the fact that the measure does not come forward, it is a Demonstration that the seven Junts deputies are irrelevant if the rest of the investiture block does not paddle in the same direction.
The circumstantial alliance between PP, Vox, UPN, Podemos and two Deputies of Sumar (Jorge Pueyo and Alberto Ibáñez) has been enough to knock down a key measure for Junts. From the beginning of the legislature, Puigdemont had sold its pressure capacity as a tool to start concessions. But the failure of this initiative shows that their votes only weigh when they achieve a minimum consensus with other groups.
Moreover, rejection has caused cracks within the investiture block. Podemos has been blunt: “It is a law to decide which administration exercises racism,” said Deputy Javier Sánchez. In his opinion, the proposal does not respond to a competence logic, but to an electoral pulse between Junts and Aliança Catalan, leaving aside the rights of migrants. Another example is that two Deputies of adding have decided to break the vote discipline to oppose. From the PSOE it was Minister Patxi López who was justified by throwing balls outside and stating that they had already done their part and not everything was in their hands.
In recent days there are several government partners who have begun to slide their doubts about the legislature, all with the shadow of budgets that seem impossible to move forward.
The fall of this proposal, which was part of the exchange to ensure the support of together to the budgets weakens Puigdemont and evidences the fragility of the government, which, which Keep finding, and every day, difficulty getting the voting forward In the camera.