The socialist deputy Vicent Manuel Sarria He accuses the right-wing parties of taking advantage of “the slightest misfortune to divert the issue”. This minor misfortune to which he was referring was neither more nor less than the DANA which had already cost more than fifty lives at that time. Sarrià was tasked with defending the decree of Sánchez to control RTVEa plenary session which was held after the refusal of the PSOE and its partners to suspend it in the face of the tragedy experienced by the Valencian Community And Castile-La Mancha by DANA.
“First of all, I must regret that the right, as it has done on other occasions, takes advantage of the slightest misfortune to divert the file,” he said from the podium. What the Valencian deputy described as a small misfortune was in reality a catastrophe which had already accumulated more than 50 deaths. A figure which, given the large number of missing people and the difficulty of accessing certain areas due to flooding, continued to grow throughout the day.
The news of the impact of this storm changed the parliamentary panorama of the time. Shortly after the start of the control session, the spokesperson for the PP, Miguel Telladoasked for the floor to demand that the Council of Spokespersons meet to study the situation and evaluate the suspension of the plenary session. His PSOE counterpart, Patxi Lopezrecognized the need to open a “reflection”, because, given the tragedy in the areas affected by DANA, the time was not “for political confrontation”. López also took the opportunity to disfigure the PP because of the “tone” he used in his questions about corruption and sexual assault by Sumar’s former spokesperson, Íñigo Errejón.
The President of the Congress then decides to stop the session and bring together the spokespersons. Despite the bad news that was becoming known about the disaster, the PSOE and its partners maintained the extraordinary plenary session to validate the decree which imposes a new electoral system on RTVE, by lowering the necessary majorities, with the absence of the PP and from Vox that they I did not vote.
PP and Vox against this plenary
From the opposition, PP And Voice requested the cancellation of this extraordinary plenary session, while the PSOE decided to keep it. Ultimately, Armengol chose to continue the session, believing there was a majority for it, even though no vote was necessary. The president popular, Alberto Nuñez Feijóocriticized the decision and considered that “it makes no sense” to hold the plenary session “with what is happening outside the Congress”.
“We cannot denounce the hypocrisy of suspending the ordinary plenary session and automatically, without any scruple, convening an extraordinary plenary session with the only point on the agenda being the control of RTVE,” he said. declared during an appearance in the Lower House. . After expressing his solidarity with the victims and those affected, Feijóo admitted to being “overwhelmed” and “devastated” by the toll of the situation. DANA which devastates Spain and predicts that the death toll will “get worse”.
“I want to send a message of gratitude and solidarity to all the emergency services and all the civil servants who have worked and who still have many days to work,” he declared, to present, on behalf of the PP, his “condolences to the families of the deceased.
