The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, confirmed yesterday that his parliamentary group would abstain in the next Vox motion of no confidence led by the economist Ramón Tamames, which he called a "parliamentary show", but the Government demands one more step and, to For this, he claims "the courage" of his predecessor in office, Pablo Casado, who in October 2020 voted against the first initiative in the same vein that Santiago Abascal's party presented in this legislature.
One year after the fall of Casado at the head of the main opposition party, the Minister of Territorial Policy and spokesperson for the Executive, Isabel Rodríguez, has called on Feijóo to be "brave as Casado and say no" to the motion of censorship.
"One cannot refrain from this because it is a constitutional instrument", warned the minister in the Cafè d'Idees program on La 2 and Ràdio 4. "One cannot trivialize the motion of censure to do what Feijóo himself called a parliamentary show, this has nothing to do with this, it has to do with a serious constitutional instrument in which rigor must be provided in the political debate", Rodríguez has sentenced to reiterate that "Casado was much braver than Feijóo". "He dared to say things clearly," she pointed out.
The executive spokesperson has elaborated on the internal contradictions of the PP, considering that it is "a shame that the main opposition party is half hiding after having eaten with one and talked to the other" in reference to Feijóo's separate meetings with Casado and with the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the main person responsible for the removal of the former. "I don't know why they don't all sit at the same table and mark a position against the Spanish," she questioned.
In any case, Rodríguez has warned about the advisability of not trivializing "a very useful instrument in our democracy" in reference to the motion of censure and assured that the Government faces it "with absolute respect for the figure of Mr. Tamames and his own figure of the constitutional instrument". "You do not go there to fight, but what you have to do is offer a candidate for the presidency of the government and an alternative political program, it does not seem that this is what we are going to see in the next few days," lamented the head of Politics Territorial.
In any case, the Executive of Pedro Sánchez sees in the Vox initiative an "opportunity" to "show the Spanish our model again, which is a model of social justice, progress and progress, compared to other models, in this case that represents the ultra-right in this country" in the words of the minister, who has insisted on demanding an opposition "loyal to Spain" from the PP. "Spain deserves a slightly more serious opposition, a state opposition, a right comparable to the European right," she pointed out.
In this sense, Rodríguez has reproached Feijóo for saying yesterday that "Spain was financing Russia" while the Prime Minister was supporting Ukraine alongside President Volodimir Zelensky. At this point, the spokeswoman has once again pointed out Casado, who, in her opinion, "said things clearly", but who also "was wrong with his destructive opposition" against the Government and "is already out of politics". In this sense, Rodríguez recalled that, at the end of his term, Casado voted against the labor reform agreed by employers and unions.
Questioned by the law of only yes is yes, the spokesperson explained that the PSOE and Unidas Podemos are holding negotiations within the parliamentary debate and has rejected that the discrepancies in the solution proposed by the PSOE are political, as the purple partners defend, but technical, while regretting that the two parties have not yet been able to reach an agreement. Rodríguez did not want to enter into the need to assume resignations due to the consequences of the norm promoted by the Ministry of Equality and has considered that "responsibilities have been taken" at the time of assuming the reform of the law. "The resignations are personal matters", she has settled her.
