The PP's call for rebellion by socialist deputies uncomfortable with their party's negotiations with the pro-independence parties for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, in exchange for an amnesty for those involved in the process, is likely to continue until the very debate of investiture to which Alberto Núñez Feijóo will undergo starting this Tuesday.
Yesterday, on the occasion of the renewal of the leadership of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP), the PP once again launched this appeal, which was replicated by the socialists with accusations of promoting "transfuguism" and "corruption." .
It was the spokesperson of the PP in Congress, Cuca Gamarra, who, when asked if they contemplate obtaining the four votes that Feijóo lacks to be invested among the ranks of the PSOE, pointed out that "there is still time for the PSOE to carry out an internal debate, if Pedro Sánchez allows it.” Gamarra criticized the PSOE's submission to Sánchez, which allows it to impose "a series of issues that seem to be immovable", although "nothing is immovable" and "they can still reflect," she encouraged.
In this sense, the leader urged the socialist deputies to weigh whether “they are willing to deliver what Puigdemont and Junqueras are asking of them,” which she identified with “equality among Spaniards,” and to accept that “democracy did not exist, it did not exist.” "It has worked all this time and it did not work when a coup d'état was attempted in 2017."
Gamarra delved into the criticism that the socialist old guard is pouring these days against the negotiations on a possible amnesty to justify the disobedience of the socialist parliamentarians in favor of Feijóo's investiture. If “there are many voices within that in recent weeks are taking a stand and are raising their voices, they can also do so internally in the PSOE, and prevent them from taking that step that they will undoubtedly regret,” he confided.
But for now, none of the internal criticism that has been raised against Sánchez comes from the current socialist cadres and, on the contrary, this week words of censure have emerged among the PP parliamentary group against its leader's strategy. . Criticisms about the “erratic” line of the PP since 23-J that have emerged as a consequence of the debate on the use of official languages in the Congress of Deputies.
While these appeals to disobedience do not find a response within the socialist group, its current leaders yesterday demanded that the PP cease its "calls for corruption and transfuguism." The Government spokesperson and acting Minister of Territorial Policy, Isabel Rodríguez, regretted that Feijóo had “reduced his aspirations for this investiture to calling for tamayazo (...) a fact classified as corruption,” she warned.
