The discomfort of the PP with Vox's second motion of censure was expressed yesterday in the agenda of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who resigned from being present in the debate and dedicated the morning to a meeting with ambassadors from the countries of the European Union , with as hostess.
As a senator, the leader of the opposition could have been in Congress yesterday, although without taking the floor, but he renounced the prerogative to try to detract from the prominence of Santiago Abascal's formation, which he finally found in the figure of veteran Ramón Tamames his longed-for supporting actor.
In any case, the abstention of the PP, which today will defend the number two and parliamentary spokesperson, Cuca Gamarra, contrasts with the frontal rejection of Pablo Casado on the first occasion in which the ultra-right wanted to bring down - without any chance of success , as in the present – the president of the Spanish Government.
If the conservative leader at the time took home the biggest and cross-cutting praise of his political career for having said "we've come this far", the silence of his successor at the head of the PP was received with bitter indifference by Vox, which he reprimanded, via Twitter, "being the Swede and puffing up on canapés" while at the seat of popular sovereignty they were trying to overthrow the "worst government" in the history of Spain.
The absence of Feijóo on such a momentous day, which Abascal himself criticized from the podium when he warned that to "lead the opposition it would be good" to go to Parliament, has not been overlooked by the PSOE either, who accuses the PP of being "on its knees" before the ultras.
So, Gamarra's role today will consist of trying to preserve the options of his rank and file and safeguard him from attacks from one side and the other, and highlights that Vox and the PSOE have turned the motion into a debate in absence against Feijóo, who "consolidates every day more his position as the alternative that the Spanish need".
