In the 24 hours between the return to Congress and the first parliamentary defeat of the PSOE, almost everything is going in this direction. In them, there are allies who break alliances, enemies turned into friends, friends turned into enemies and, above all, many threats are coming true. Let’s go through them in parts.
The Congress of Deputies approved on Wednesday a PP proposal for the Spanish government to recognize the opposition leader in Venezuela, Edmundo González, as the legitimate president of the country and winner of the elections. PP, Vox, PNV, Canarian Coalition and UPN supported the process, which once again breaks the blockade of Pedro Sánchez. In total, 177 votes forone above the absolute.
Paradoxically, this is the first time in the entire legislature that Congress is divided by ideologies. The right for the motion, the left against and, in the middle, Junts and José Luis Ábalosfor themselves and against all others.
The MEPs, who were being controlled remotely from Brussels, continued to show that they could be unpredictable. At 1pm, before the start of the vote, they left the chamber and returned to Barcelona to take part in a Diada that, given the number of people, needed seven more demonstrators.
If the absence of Junts was a surprise, Jose Luis Abalos It has been announced for too long. The deputy of the Mixed Group, member of the PSOE and persecuted by his former colleagues in the Council of Ministers, told this newspaper two weeks ago that he would stop being “so close” to Pedro Sánchez and that, from now on, he would vote “in conscience” and not on the basis of the acronym.
The reason is none other than the internal audit of the Ministry of Transport aimed at investigating the Koldo casein which he is particularly noted. With his abstention, the former organizing secretary of the PSOE sends a very clear message to those who have turned their backs on him: their vote is in no way guaranteed.
He is not the only one sending the same message.
The clearest example occurred during the following vote. Speaking clearly: Vox abstains and prevents Congress from approving a motion against the Catalan concert. The official reason, they claim from the formation, was that they wanted to amend the PP text and propose a fair model between the autonomous communities, but the popular refused.
Finally, there is the PNV, a privileged partner since the 2018 motion of censure, which broke with the government for the first time on a particularly sensitive issue for its leaders such as Venezuela. Mainly because it is the only party in the investiture bloc that openly censures Chavism.
Despite his “betrayal”, the intervention of the jeltzales was once again one of the few to escape the symphonic orchestra of shouts, whistles and blows that the Congress of Deputies has recently become. A refrain so shrill that it naturalizes episodes like the popular Jaime de Olano saying that “Sánchez’s model is Franco” or that the Minister of Justice, Félix Bolaños, fights with Miguel Tellado over which of the two should go to court. hairdresser more.
New political course: 2024/2025.
