Junts rejects the reduction of working hours and Sánchez and Díaz's plans are stalled.

Carles Puigdemont's party is speaking of a "frontal attack" on SMEs and the self-employed and will present a comprehensive amendment when the bill, which the Council of Ministers was expected to approve tomorrow, reaches the Cortes Generales.

Blockage. This is what will happen with the reduction in working hours that the Council of Ministers plans to approve tomorrow, after one of the parties that make up the "investiture bloc," Junts , announced that it will present a comprehensive amendment when the government's bill reaches Parliament.

This is the second show of force that the party led by Carles Puigdemont has launched against the PSOE and Sumar executive in less than 24 hours. Yesterday, the president of the neo-convergents urged the government to reject BBVA's takeover bid for Banco Sabadell.

Specifically, today, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced from Barcelona that a "public consultation" will begin tomorrow to determine his cabinet's position: whether to veto the merger or authorize it.

Sánchez also defended the agreement to reduce the working week from 40 hours to 47.5 , which was agreed upon with the unions and is strongly opposed by employers' organizations. Among them is the Catalan PIMEC ( Mexican Workers' Commissions), whose president, Antoni Cañete, met with Puigdemont just over a week ago, where he informed him of the negative consequences the government's text would have for SMEs.

Their arguments appear to have convinced Junts, whose spokesperson in Congress, Míriam Nogueras, saw it as a "frontal attack on the self-employed and small and medium-sized businesses in Catalonia," which represent 99.8% of all businesses in the community.

The time change "has only been negotiated with the Spanish unions," and Junts "found the door closed," so there hasn't even been the possibility of negotiating "not even a comma," he said.

"The law undermines collective bargaining, and in fact, the one who benefits the most is the Spanish State, which will be able to continue to undermine SMEs and the self-employed, " he added.

Nogueras believed that the government headed by Salvador Illa, instead of rolling out a "red carpet" for the reform, should defend the productive sector, which completely rejects the measure.