Sánchez winks at Casado in Congress for an imminent renewal of RTVE and the Judiciary

"I invite you to go through the final stretch of this misfortune together," repeated Sánchez, who appealed to a unit that has been conspicuous by its absence in national politics during the last year and even in the crudest moments of the pandemic. The president ignored the negotiation that at that time was in the making until just the end of the debate, when in response to the UPN deputy, Sergio Sayas, he was hopeful of reaching an agreement with the PP that has resisted him for more than two years .

"I cross my fingers - because it will not be due to the lack of will of the majority group - so that we can reach an agreement sooner than later for the renewal of such important organs," Sánchez said a week after reactivating the negotiation following a phone call to Married, what this time it was opened to agree after the electoral hit in Catalonia and the criticism of the barons.

That he is in the middle of the negotiation did not prevent Married hard hitting the Government, whom he accused of "cheering" on the violence in the streets, in addition to blaming Sánchez for placing "the executors of ETA in the direction of the State": "You lead the most radical and confronted government of the last 40 years, and he asks for unity here but he does not have it within and he establishes power in his pact with the extremists.

However, in the midst of that harsh diatribe, the PP leader also asked the president for an agreement in which they could "win both." "I told him at his inauguration that the task that you and I must share is to widen the space of moderation and make it so large so that we can both win within it," said the opposition chief. "I have already done my part, aware of the short-term cost," added Casado, referring to the change in Vox's motion of censure and the electoral punishment in Catalonia. In fact, Santiago Abascal has threatened a new motion of censure so that "some deputies can redeem themselves from their gigantic responsibility before the Spanish."

Sánchez took the opportunity to mark distances again with the extreme right after saying a fortnight ago that had shown more "sense of state" than the PP for saving the decree of European funds. The president had already changed his speech a week ago and insisted this Wednesday when asking the PP and Ciudadanos to break with what he has reiterated that is a "danger to democracy": "The extreme right is not a joke, it is a real threat for Spanish democracy ".

"It's okay to appeal to the center, but it has to be done with facts," Sánchez told Casado while Moncloa was in negotiations with the PP for the renewal of constitutional bodies pending updating. The PSOE assures that Vox asked for its corresponding quota in the Judicial Power, although Abascal's party denies it, according to The world.

"We're working on it," said the first vice president, Carmen Calvo, as she left the congressional chamber at the edge of 4:00 p.m. At that time, the Government began to cool the possibility that the agreement to renew the CGPJ was closed this Wednesday. That had been the intention of the Executive, which negotiated as a package the set of institutions pending renewal: in addition to the governing body of the judges, the Ombudsman, the Constitutional Court, the Court of Accounts and the board of directors of RTVE .

To this end, the Secretary General of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, negotiated against the clock with the number two of the PP, Teodoro García Egea, since this Thursday the six members of the board of directors of the public entity are elected. The telematic voting period began without the deputies knowing which names they had to choose.

However, there is a second chance within fifteen days. If this Thursday the necessary two-thirds majority is not reached, the members of RTVE can be elected in a new vote by absolute majority as long as they have the endorsement of five parliamentary groups. The Socialists are convinced that they have the numbers to carry it out in that case if the agreement with the PP finally resists.

The agreement to renew the management of public radio television seemed closer throughout the afternoon, but the sources consulted say that it is not possible to speak of a global agreement for the rest of the institutions and late on Wednesday the representatives of the Government and the PP continue to negotiate. The limit to vote for future members of the RTVE board of directors appointed by Congress is this Thursday at 11.00 in the morning, so there are hours to close the agreement in extremis.

Negotiations between Moncloa and the PP have picked up speed in recent days since Sánchez's call to Casado in which the Socialists perceived a change in the attitude of the Conservative leader. The message that the Government spread no longer censored the "blockade" of the PP but assured that it was a "constructive conversation" for the first time in almost two years.

Genoa insisted that it maintained its conditions for negotiation, but was sending messages of flexibility. On Monday García Egea announced progress, among which he cited the exclusion of United We Can from a negotiation in which those of Pablo Iglesias had never been. The Socialists made it clear that the government negotiators were speaking on behalf of the coalition.

The PP also assured its opposition to certain names as members of the CGPJ. From Unidos Podemos they assure that what was agreed internally with Sánchez is that at least two names of the governing body of the judges count as 'quota' of the minority partner. "We do not accept vetoes - sources from the confederal group warned -. If they agree with the PP without us they will not have our votes when they vote."