The discomfort of the PP with Vox's second motion of no confidence was reflected yesterday in the agenda of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who resigned from being present at the debate and dedicated the morning to a meeting with ambassadors of the countries of the European Union, with Sweden as hostess.
As a senator, the opposition leader could have been in Congress yesterday, although without speaking, but he renounced that prerogative to try to reduce the role of Santiago Abascal's formation, who finally found in the figure of veteran Ramón Tamames his coveted supporting actor.
Be that as it may, the abstention of the PP, which today will defend the number two and parliamentary spokesperson, Cuca Gamarra, contrasts with the direct rejection of Pablo Casado on the first occasion that the ultra-right wanted to bring down – without any possibility of success, as in the present – to the President of the Government.
If the then conservative leader received the greatest and most transversal praise of his political career for saying "we have come this far", the silence of his successor at the head of the PP was received with bitter disdain by Vox, who reproached him, via Twitter, for "playing Swedish and filling up on canapés" while in the seat of popular sovereignty they tried to overthrow the "worst government" in the history of Spain.
The absence of Feijóo on such a momentous day, which Abascal himself made ugly from the rostrum by warning that to "lead the opposition it would be good" to go to Parliament, has not been overlooked by the PSOE either, which has been accusing the PP of being " on your knees” before the ultras.
Thus, Gamarra's role today will consist of trying to preserve the options of his leader and safeguard him from attacks from either side, noting that Vox and the PSOE have turned the motion into a debate in absentia against Feijóo, who "Every day it strengthens its position as the alternative that the Spaniards need."
