Some want to undervalue the candidate Ramón Tamames and others want to overvalue him. Vox's censure motion still doesn't have a response strategy, what it already has is a schedule: Meritxell Batet, president of the Congress, announced to the groups yesterday that the session on Tuesday the 21st will start at 9 am.
Last week ERC proposed a joint operation of contempt, and yesterday the PSOE, which intends just the opposite, convinced that the main victim of the far-right initiative is the PP, expressed the idea that, in addition to President Pedro Sánchez , were answered by the three vice-presidents, Nadia Calviño, Yolanda Díaz and Teresa Rivera. The proposal has not been agreed upon or closed with the Government's minority partner, so there is still no joint initiative. The Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, yesterday proposed that only women answer, given the "sexist" nature of the ultra-right wing.
Nor among the groups of the investiture block, after Esquerra's attempt to repeat what the spokesman of the PNB, Aitor Esteban, did in the October 2020 one - to use only two minutes of the thirty available to disdain the Santiago Abascal's candidacy - a strategy has still been decided.
Meanwhile, yesterday Vox's parliamentary spokesman, Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, had a hard time in the Congress press room to defend the alignment of Vox's interests with those of its candidate, Ramón Tamames, after he criticized in several interviews with condescension the ideas of Vox and its conception of matters such as climate change or the Spanish territorial model. According to Espinosa de los Monteros, these dissensions are not real, but the product of the malicious transcription made by the newspapers El País and El Mundo - he quoted them both explicitly, and assured that "no one transcribes two hours of 'interview” (sic) – from Tamames' original words, which would have taken them out of context. Faced with the insistence of questions from the press, Iván Espinosa de los Monteros implied that the apparent lack of harmony between Tamames and the ideas of Vox is not that serious either for two reasons: because the motion of censure will give rise to the leader of the party, Santiago Abascal, can speak without a time limit, and because, in any case, the only commitment that is required of Tamames once he is voted as the new president of the Government is to immediately call general elections. He also assured that in Vox there is no "right wing" that opposes the motion of censure and the figure of Tamames.
