Congress’ midterm debate ended after almost six hours. Although the PP and Vox’s uncompromising attacks on corruption against the Pedro Sánchez government and multiple and diverse warnings from almost all of the regular partners have made it tough and tough at many moments, Congress continues. This strange mission continues, despite Janz’s announcements about blocking all kinds of projects and initiatives, despite the most fundamental fatigue threats of Podemos and the more gentle warnings of distress of the PNV, ERC, Canary Union or BNG. Nothing is finished. No hypothetical censure motions from the right or far right were announced, and no confidence issues or electoral advances were allowed by the president. The president confronted Alberto Nuñez Feijó, the leader of the PP, over his commitment to public services in the face of cuts, privatization, and the mismanagement of PP leaders in autonomous regions. “Please don’t count on me at all,” Feijo said.
At the end of the morning, after more than five hours of frenetic intervention, BNG spokesman Nestor Rego admitted they were facing at least a “curious” appearance. This debate was scheduled on so many current events (international summits, corruption, parliamentary instability, quality of public services) and at such a specific time (mid-term) that it could have been used for almost anything, and yet it happened.
There, the President gave his first speech of 60 minutes, in which he avoided any self-criticism regarding the events and problems that threaten the government and the PSOE, referred to the confrontation with the ideological model of billionaire support for public services, especially in the health and education sectors, and showed that although more than 300 million euros were transferred to all autonomous communities during his seven-year term, the main barons of the PP in these regions do not know how to manage it well. And they launched plans to dismantle them and promote privatization. Mr. Sánchez also made Mr. Feijó “co-lead” the strategy. He then scorned Mr. Feijó’s “destructive” and unhelpful type of opposition, confirming that despite the flaws in parliament, he has “a stable minority coalition government that is working and moving forward,” similar to what is already happening in many European democracies around us. Faced with the corruption of the PSOE’s last two organizational heads, the party’s president got away with detailing all the plans announced or introduced to combat this disaster. And above all, it escaped the responsibility of persecuting the PP, who was convicted and whose more than 30 cases are still under trial.
Once these conditions were reached, Mr. Feiju felt challenged by Mr. Sánchez as “leader of the opposition against the PP,” and when he said in his parliamentary diary, “Don’t rely on me at all,” he demonstrated the level of personal and political enmity between the two leaders of the country’s most important political parties. The PP leader accused Mr. Sánchez of gradually undermining the country’s horizons and finally descending into a historic “moral crisis”, where he singled out his partners in the party’s executive board and very directly accused the PNV and Junts of “normalizing what is unacceptable”. Mr. Feijo then described Spain as having lost out on the worst poverty data and enumerated the incidents currently affecting the PSOE, but he also added some flavor by alluding to Sánchez’s deceased father-in-law and brother-in-law, and caused a moment of laughter in the chamber when he promised to allocate the first vice-president’s position to the housing sector if he came to power. Some Socialist Party members laughed and joked that “Abascal already has a portfolio.” In the chapter of Announcements and Promises, Feijot advanced another decision he would make if he arrived at La Moncloa. “I am not going to pardon you or yours.”
Vox leader Santiago Abascal painted the government as “riddled with corruption” and waiting for Mr. Sánchez to “avoid imprisonment”, but he was more cryptic when he advised Mr. Feijo not to start allocating ministries now lest what happened in the 2023 elections happen to him. For Abascal, he is negotiating with the National Party about the future of Valencia’s government after the last fall of Carlos Masson, but the National Party is the same as the PSOE, working together in Brussels and Ceuta, has agreed to increase the number of MPs in Castilla-La Mancha, and they share membership in the General Council of Justice.
Despite Feijó’s disdain, Sánchez’s usual remaining allies in Congress also did not listen to Sánchez. Mr Smar’s spokeswoman, Veronica Martínez Barbero, reminded coalition partners not to let pressure on Palestine, housing and nuclear power plant closure schedules put their concerns on the back burner. The ERC’s Gabriel Ruffian insisted on these demands, but this year he attacked Feijo extremely harshly for supporting the “wretched Mazon” and devoted more time to counterclaims in which they are regularly accused of supporting Junto, their interests and this government “without anything in return”, among other things.
Yuntz began by dismissing Ms. Ruffian as a poorly concealed spokesperson for PSOE and ended by repeating the message of her last weeks after Congress’s support for Mr. Sánchez collapsed. The president’s press secretary, Miriam Nogueras, asked him to appear to explain how he intends to continue congress without Sánchez’s support, repeating that the president “doesn’t say anything, he doesn’t obey, he’s only interested in power” and relisted the laws and initiatives that had been suspended in congress. Controversial amnesty law approved and pardons for national leaders process There was no mention of the independence movement.
Sánchez later confessed to Juntz and others, who cited the apparent parliamentary instability, that he was “not fascinated” by the reality of the current arithmetic in parliament, but that he assumed that was what the Spaniards had decided at the polls and confirmed that he would not consult them every time the PP or Vox asked. Mr. Sánchez, however, demanded that these parties be allowed to hold elections in the Valencian community.
The EH Bildou side and the mixed groups BNG, Podemos and Compromis regretted that they could not use this critical moment in parliament to reset everything and start taking more courageous actions in various areas, especially in housing. Ione Berara, from Podemos, gave six points to “defeat the right wing and the far right,” which resonated more with PP and Vox than Sánchez. The PNV has been warning for some time about the dire situation Cortés sees in “vaudeville and circuses” and has also drawn attention to the fact that bilateral agreements “are not progressing as hoped, however.” Cristina Valido of the Canary Islands Federation tried unsuccessfully to bring order to such a dialectical mess, and thought that in the end the debate would be withdrawn without a censure motion, a question of confidence, or an early election.
Feijó called Sanchez “Tertuliano” and identified him as the host of TVE’s morning edition or news program on territorial disarmament. Abascal called the president a “moderate cardinal” because he referred to the papal regulations. Tempted to go even further, Ruffian envisioned a TVE controlled by PP and Vox, with Bertin Osborn at the head of the news program, now hosted by Pepa Bueno, and with Andalusian singer José Manuel Soto replacing David Broncano. rebellion. Mr. Ruffian ultimately pressed Mr. Feijoo to clarify whether he said he was the first to speak to Mr. Mazon on the night of the Dana disaster and whether he had advised him not to request a state of emergency. Mr. Feijo did not specify, but he did note in his speech that he had spoken to Mr. Mazon “before” Mr. Sanchez that night and had visited the area before that.
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