Editorial: El Español

• PSOE is trying to balance its policy of concessions with Junts and ERC and firmness against the unilateral path in the electoral pre-campaign.
• The Government will appeal to the Constitutional Court against the independence initiative of the Parliament of Catalonia.
• The Government didn't take action until over a month after the initiative began to be processed in Parliament.
• The appeal can be seen as the first campaign act of the PSOE for the Catalan elections.
• PSOE needs to show its opposition to the reactivation of the unilateral path to make the program of its candidate Salvador Illa believable.
• Socialists are willing to negotiate a fiscal independence through a Catalan quota, something that is not constitutionally supported.
• The appeal has limited reach as Sánchez has agreed to erase the crimes of the independents.

Conclusion: PSOE is trying to prevent the corollary that follows from its own counterproductive agenda of 're-encounter', balancing its policy of concessions and its opposition to the independent unilateral path.

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