Edmundo Bal: “We have asked the government not to give in to nationalist blackmail”

The deputy spokesman for Citizens in Congress Edmund Ball was interviewed this Thursday on Radio Euskadi’s ‘Boulevard’ program, where he highlighted that his party yes, it will support the decree of the labor reform“as long as the Spanish government does not give in to nationalist blackmail”.

“We have been clear in our statements. We have always defended that this labor reform was not what we wanted, but given the risk that turn into a catastrophewe have decided to support it,” he said.

Despite not agreeing on everything, Bal has considered that the reform is “one more step for end job insecurityespecially in the case of young people.

Asked if the support of Ciudadanos is something punctual, he clarified that “it is not a punctual support, nor non-punctual, that is to say, that my party has not changed its strategy.” For this reason, he has been convinced of his decision, “regardless of whether other parties also vote affirmatively in tomorrow’s session, Thursday.”

In any case, the spokesperson for the orange party in Congress has criticized the attitude of the second vice president of the Spanish Government, Yolanda Díaz, who, according to him, is sabotaging them. “Yesterday she was referring to the agreement that she has achieved with different parties and unions, without mentioning us,” he detailed.

The Spanish Government assumes that the labor reform decree will be validated next Thursday in Congress with a sufficient majority, since they have the support of Ciudadanos and that of several minority parties, such as Más País, Compromís, Nueva Canarias , Canarian Coalition, Teruel Exists or PRC.