Most grow and multiply

"And they continue to add more enemies of Spain," protested from the platform of Congress the deputy of the PP Llanos de Luna.

The list of those “enemies” that the coalition government has managed to adhere to its cause continues to grow: the count as of this Monday was already 189 deputies, 13 more than the absolute majority and 22 more than those that last January favored the very tight investiture of Pedro Sánchez by only two votes difference.

This “clearly progressive historical bloc” - according to the definition of Mertxe Aizpurua, the spokesperson for the most controversial of its members, EH Bildu - will give its support to the State Budgets next Thursday, the penultimate process before being sent to the Senate and approval. definitively, again in Congress, two days before the end of the year.

The motley crowd includes the entire state left (the two government parties and Más País) and the majority of nationalism, whether they are on the left (ERC, EH Bildu and Compromís) or in more conservative positions (PNV and PDeCAT). in addition to small moderate local formations, such as the Cantabrian regionalists, Teruel Existe and Nueva Canarias.

Opposite will be the full spectrum of the center-right, the toughest Catalan independence movement (Junts and the CUP), the Canary Coalition and the only support that the Executive has lost since the inauguration, that of the BNG, whose lone deputy, Néstor Rego, harshly attacked some Budgets that "punish Galicia".

ERC and EH Bildu had consented to Sánchez's election in January, but without leaving the limbo of abstention.

Now they are enrolled in the majority that supports the Executive and, to reinforce their position, they strengthen the ties that they already had for a long time.

With that purpose, the general coordinator of EH Bildu, Arnaldo Otegi, and the secretary general of ERC, Marta Vilalta, held a joint appearance on Monday, via telematics, in which the Basque leader joined forces: “We are 18 deputies [13 of Esquerra and 5 from Bildu] absolutely decisive in Congress, ”boasted Otegi, who argued that what is at stake is more than just public accounts.

What is being settled, according to him, is to stop the "advance of the extreme right" and determine the "political orientation of the State in the coming months and years."

Overcome the swampy territory of the Budgets, in which the PSOE's solitary Cabinet drowned a year ago, a new life for the Executive begins.

The good news is that it will not be short: the "progressive bloc" of which Aizpurua spoke has the vocation to persevere "at least three years."

The bad news is that it will not be easy to satisfy the demands of these allies.

The same Aizpurua exposed it without many diplomatic respects from the platform of Congress: “They already have Budgets, now there are no excuses.

Now we are going to be much more demanding ”.

And they will be in three main issues: "Expansion of social and economic rights", "progress in the plurinationality of the State" and "leaving behind the exceptionality of prison policy."

María Muñoz, from Ciudadanos, a suitor disgusted by the Executive, immediately accepted those words: “What a shame!

They have already made it clear that they are going to remove even their livers ”.

The last of the "enemies of Spain" to jump on the government bandwagon also has the will to unite for a long time.

The four PDeCAT deputies, the most moderate sector within the magma that emerged after the implosion of the old pujolismo, will go from rejection to the investiture 11 months ago to offer their yes next Thursday.

And with this he hopes to start a "new legislature", as announced by his deputy Ferran Bel.

The divorce with the sector of Carles Puigdemont, who retains another four deputies under the name Junts per Catalunya, is now final.

Laura Borràs, newly elected candidate of Junts to the Generalitat in the elections on February 14, announced that her group will continue in the frontal rejection as long as there are "political prisoners", the "repression" does not stop and the self-determination of Catalonia.

Without expressly citing him, Borràs described the change in position of his colleagues until now as an “irresponsible short-termism”.

Rather, Bel's speech evoked the negotiating maneuvers of the years of apotheosis of Pujolismo.

The post-convergent deputy justified his support for the current health and social emergency situation, because a rejection of the accounts would lead the country to the third elections in a year and because - it would be more - the promises of investments in Catalonia, especially more than 200 million euros for the commuter train.

Above the figures, investments or economic priorities, in the debate that will continue until Thursday on the different sections of the Budgets, it will continue to speak, above all, of EH Bildu, suddenly become the central actor of the work and representative most honorable of the "enemies of Spain".

The entry into the scene of the "filoetarras" produces in the seats of the center right between "shame" and "arcades", words that sounded this Monday in the mouth of several opposition deputies.

"Spain is going to be sold in pieces so that Sánchez and Iglesias remain in power," interpreted the popular spokesperson, Cuca Gamarra.

Although in a warrior ardor against the Government, no one is capable of winning over Vox.

Both, so much, so much rejects the Budgets Santiago Abascal's party that it has been the only group in the House that has not even bothered to present a single amendment.

Of course, Iván Espinosa de los Monteros announced: "We will fight against you every day of our lives."