Díaz and Sánchez met on Monday morning to accelerate the negotiation and reissue a coalition government
PSOE and Sumar have brought closer positions on the working day, the main obstacle they have maintained until now for a Government agreement that is now perceived to be very close, according to negotiation sources. In fact, they are optimistic that this Tuesday will be a decisive day and said pact can be forged, just as socialist sources point out, who have no doubt that it will be consummated on Tuesday.
Of course, they indicate that despite this progress in reducing working hours, which is a fundamental demand of Sumar, some sectors involved in the negotiation prescribe caution and say that at this time there is no closed agreement and the talks to finalize it must end.
In the respective formations led by Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz, contacts have already intensified since the weekend and have continued today, also at the highest level. In fact, both leaders held a meeting this Monday morning to give support to the negotiation.
Díaz has precisely canceled a session that was scheduled for this Monday by videoconference with the Secretary of Labor of the United States, Julie Sue, just when the negotiation with the PSOE was intensifying, to close the agreement that they agreed to have before the Princess’s swearing-in. Leonor on October 31.
Thus, the work methodology leaves the technical aspect to the PSOE and add negotiating teams, led by Minister María Jesús Montero and Nacho Álvarez, while Sánchez and Díaz would intervene to highlight the most stuck aspects.
Sánchez and Díaz already met in the Congress of Deputies on October 4 and then committed to making the pact throughout this month.
Since the general elections on July 23, both parties have shown their intention to reissue the coalition government, although Sumar’s proposal involves lowering the working day to 37.5 hours in 2024, thus bringing the private sector into line with public, and progressively reduce to a threshold of 35 or 32 hours per week, something that has conditioned the agreement until the last minute, since the socialists intend for it to be framed within the framework of social dialogue.
Added to the reduction in working hours is the development of a bank tax and the increase in the cost of dismissal.
