PP and Vox take advantage of the absence of ministers in Les Corts to request an electoral advance

PP and Vox are clear about it and from now until the elections are called they will be asking for the dissolution of Les Corts and the electoral advance.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
18 May 2022 Wednesday 05:33
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PP and Vox take advantage of the absence of ministers in Les Corts to request an electoral advance

PP and Vox are clear about it and from now until the elections are called they will be asking for the dissolution of Les Corts and the electoral advance. The extreme right, in the demographic wave, has been asking for it for a long time, while the popular ones who started out very strong by demanding that Puig press the button have been silent for a while until the party has resurfaced with force after the ouster of Pablo Casado.

Yesterday, with an eye on the polls that predict a change of cycle in Spain, the PP spokeswoman in Les Corts, María José Català, took advantage of the absence of up to five ministers in the plenary session next week (plus that of the president who will be traveling in Portugal) to claim the head of the Consell to "call elections before his exhaustion or show his face".

The opposition's strategy seems clear. Despite the recent government reshuffle and the firm desire of the president of the Generalitat Valenciana to exhaust the legislature and even make it coincide with the municipal elections, the roadmap emphasizes that it is an "exhausted" Consell, which "flees of Parliament" and that he has no choice but to bring forward the vote. Vox has been working on this argument for months, with great insistence.

The trustee of the popular group in les Corts yesterday censured the repeated absences of ministers and the president of the Generalitat himself in the plenary session of Les Corts and stated: "either the Consell calls elections before its exhaustion or shows its face in Les Corts".

And it is that next week Ximo Puig has excused his absence -he will not submit to the control session of the parliamentary groups- as well as the heads of Justice, Housing, Economy, Territorial Policy, Finance, and Transparency.

“The situation of the Valencian Parliament is serious and atypical due to so much absence. The agenda for this week is already going to be altered and the oral questions to the ministers of new competences are not going to be substantiated and the interpellations are not going to be developed either. It is a crisis that goes beyond the remodeling of the Consell”, pointed out Català. "If the Consell is exhausted and its cycle runs out, call elections," reiterated Catalá.

The leader of the PP assured that Puig flees the week that his brother declares as accused in the case of aid to the Valencian.

A strategy that Vox supported but not so Citizens who assured that, in the mouth of their deputy Mamen Peris, he assured that "it is not the time to ask for early elections" but to "work and invest European funds." Peris demanded that the Botànic "stop fighting and internal prominence". The polls are not exactly smiling, looking for a turning point.

On the other side, the deputy spokeswoman for the PSPV Carmen Martínez justified Puig's absence and argued that the summit in Portugal is of such "magnitude" that it is "absolutely essential" that the president does not attend the control session.

For his part, Papi Robles (Compromís) defended that the Botànic has been reformulated and is generating more employment and investment projects beyond the Sagunto gigafactory.

The president's intention with the remodeling is, along these lines, to reverse the opposition criticism that the opposition wants the elections to be called as soon as possible and convey to society the image of a government that is active and with much to contribute in a Key moment.


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