The numbers still don’t work for Alberto Núñez Feijóo. The secretary general of Junts, Jordi Turull, assured this Friday that he had refused to support a possible motion of censure from the PP and Vox against the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, considering this operation “a fantasy”.
The opposition leader opened the door to the presentation of a motion of censure by making himself available to Pedro Sánchez’s partners to “open a new stage”, after Commissioner Víctor de Aldama launched accusations of corruption against the Executive and the PSOE described as “false”. » by the head of government.
In statements to the press at the headquarters of the Junts, Turull reiterated that it is not a question for Carles Puigdemont’s party of “withdrawing or not” its support for Sánchez, but rather that its collaboration with the government must be done “piece by piece and voted on”. by vote. “A motion of censure with the PP and Vox is a fantasy,” he added.
The arithmetic of Congress, as happened after the July 2023 elections, prevents the success of a motion of censure of the PP due to the Vox veto of the Catalan and Basque nationalist parties, whose combination with the extreme right is necessary for the initiative of May Feijóo. succeed.
In short, Sánchez must sweat every vote and balance left and right to achieve parliamentary victories, but there is no viable majority that can be articulated against him in a motion of censure.
Feijóo’s proposal also sparked reactions from other parties negotiating with the government. ERC spokesperson Gabriel Rufián recalled that he had told Feijóo that he would be president “by Junts’ action or omission.”
“I think Vox is an actor that will be difficult to whitewash in Catalonia, but Junts has been voting for months with the PP and Vox,” added Rufián.
In this sense, the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, reached out to the PP to “build an alternative” and showed himself willing to “do whatever is necessary”, but stressed that it was not necessary to generate false hopes or confuse citizens on a motion of censure to expel Sánchez from Moncloa.
Nor, he stressed, is the possibility that separatist parties could support it, because “they benefit from a weak government,” Abascal said.
For his part, the spokesperson for the PP, Borja Sémper, stressed that its leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, is ready to “speak” to develop a motion of censure because, in the face of cases of corruption, “beyond the “Arithmetic is ethical.”
“If there are other political parties that can no longer stand this daily embarrassment, we are ready to talk about it and offer an alternative to the Spanish people; “This is what we say, what Feijóo has been saying for a long time, what we all say without being mistaken about the arithmetic situation,” he said.
