The PSOE hopes to close an agreement with Junts in the coming days but assumes that it is difficult to invest Sánchez this week

Both parties are dedicated to ensuring that the law has no cracks and can pass the examination of the Constitutional Court

BRUSSELS/MADRID, Nov. 8 (EUROPA PRESS) -

PSOE and Junts continue negotiating an agreement in Brussels for the re-election of Pedro Sánchez as President of the Government and they hope to close the pact in the coming days. However, they already admit that it is difficult for the investiture plenary session to be held this week, according to negotiation sources.

At this moment, both parties are dedicated to ensuring that the law has no cracks and can pass the parliamentary process and the examination to which it will likely be subjected by the Constitutional Court, since the opposition has already announced that they will appeal the rule.

In any case, the sources consulted maintain that the negotiation is going well and the agreement can materialize at any time. However, as the days have gone by, the deadlines for holding the investiture plenary session this week have become more complicated, even though it was the socialists' initial plan.

Although it is still materially possible, by adjusting the procedure a lot, socialist sources are already ruling out that possibility and, although they do not speak of specific dates, they point to next week as a viable scenario to go to the Congress of Deputies for the investiture session.

The conversations, therefore, are still underway and will continue for the next few hours. In fact, the socialist delegation that has been in Brussels since last Sunday, led by the Secretary of Organization, Santos Cerdán, has extended his stay by one more day and intends to continue in the Belgian capital until an agreement is definitively closed.

The dialogue between both parties continues at a slow pace, due to the dynamics of the negotiation, according to the aforementioned sources. There is a continuous exchange of papers that the legal teams have to review for hours and that is why the process is delayed. According to what they indicate, the last document was transferred last night by the PSOE to Junts and at this moment they are waiting for a response.

According to reports from within the negotiation, the discussions at the moment involve ensuring that the law is legally "clean", that it has no fissures and therefore can pass the parliamentary process and the Constitutional filter without problems.

They give priority, therefore, to protecting the rule and ensuring that it does not have loopholes that could jeopardize its application, before signing a quick agreement. For this reason, jurists from both parties study each document in depth, to avoid any "weak flanks," they point out.

On the contrary, the sources consulted reject that the discussions are dealing with the Democratic Tsunami case, after this Monday the judge investigating the case, Manuel García Castellón, directed the investigation against the former Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont and accused the general secretary of ERC, Marta Rovira.

They therefore point out that in the discussions no proper names are being discussed and on the contrary the efforts are concentrated on making a "clean" law without weak points.

In this sense, the acting Minister of Education and Vocational Training and spokesperson for the PSOE, Pilar Alegría, stated this Wednesday that "hurry is not a good advisor" when asked about the date on which they will announce the agreement with Junts.

In statements to TVE, collected by Europa Press, he reiterated that the deadline for the investiture is November 27. He has also confirmed that Sánchez will attend the Congress of European Socialists in Malaga this Saturday, as planned.

Finally, he pointed out that the drafting of the agreement must be done "calmly and rigorously" and therefore at this moment they must be guided by "caution, rigor and prudence", he concluded.