Spain's acting prime minister Pedro Sánchez has today presented his latest offer to convince Podemos to vote to invest him as PM. Labelled an "open proposal for a common progressive programme", its 370 items include plans to provide free nursery care for infants, create low-emissions zones in towns with more than 50,000 inhabitants and tackle "abuses" in rent prices.
They also include a number of specific points to tackle the "coexistence crisis in Catalonia", a question which makes it into the six main aims at the start of the document. PSOE's most notable policies regarding Catalonia are unchanged: the rejection of a referendum on independence and the possibility of approving a new system of funding for Spain's autonomous communities.
The party says its intention is to "move forwards towards a unifying model for the state" which would have "no space for a self-determination referendum that the Constitutional Court has found to be contrary to the Constitution and which, from a political perspective, provokes the rupture of society".
PSOE writes that, if returned to government, it will work on the "perfecting" the system of autonomous communities to make it "strong and united". On the matter of the "coexistence conflict in Catalonia", they say they will "promote dialogue between Catalans and also between the governments of Spain and Catalonia, always within the Constitution".
After his last attempt to gain the necessary votes to become prime minister in July failed at the last minute, little progress seems to have been made by PSOE in its talks with other political parties. If no candidate has won the support of the Congress by 23rd September, Spain will go to an automatic rerun of the general election, as happened following the 2015 vote. This would come on 10th November.