A political asset, transformed into a throwing weapon of the People’s Party against the central government, and in which, for the moment, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez. Something that happens by decision of the People’s Party itself, led by Isabel Diaz Ayuso.
It should be remembered that the aforementioned commission of inquiry is divided into six sessions (plus vote and conclusions) and that the Popular Party, the majority at the table, has decided that each of them responds to a purpose and has an appearance profile: members of the university, related companies, etc.
This situation ties the parliamentary groups hand and foot when it comes to deciding which personalities to call to testify. The first and last sessions are “free”. In other words, you can go any type of personality (Group into which the president of the government and his wife would fall), while the others are of very specific profiles linked to the university or the financing of masters.
Thus, the Popular Party has already announced that during this first session it will call to declare the wife of the President of the Government, Begoña Gómez, to the rector of the Complutense University of Madrid, Joaquín Goyache, and to the auditor of the UCM, María Elvira Gutiérrez-Vierna. A movement which dislocated the opposition, since it “loses” the possibility of summoning the president of the government.
and why The Popular Party loses the opportunity to call Pedro Sánchez? As confirmed by this newspaper, the six appearances have not only divided the theme and subject matter, but also who will propose the parts that will appear.
In other words, while in this first session the three are proposed by the PP, in the third More from Madrid.
The situation is even more incredible if we consider that during the last session, that of February, the Popular Party will not present any comparison. According to an internal working document consulted through this means, in this last nomination there will be three personalities called to declare themselves: one proposed by more than Madrid, another by the PSOE and a last Vox.
This means that the Popular Party, with said working document subject to modification, loses the possibility of summoning the President of the Government to testify and leaves the decision to call him or not in the hands of Vox, which also proposed among possible appearances.
Legal relationships and “absurdities”
Faced with opposition from the Madrid Assembly, the PSOE and Más Madrid have repeatedly criticized the mere existence of this commission which, in their opinion, has been further confused by the possibility of summoning the president of the government or by the limitation of the objective of the sessions and number of participants.
In fact, one of the first controversies was the application of the D’Hondt law system for the distribution of participants, which is generally not done in regional chambers.
Antonio Sánchez, MP for Más Madrid and member of the Commission, He assures that the division of sessions “isolates the groups”, leaving the quotes “less interesting on an informative level”. An “unprecedented indignation at the Madrid Assembly”.
“More Madrid will think of a worthy response to this parliamentary absurdity, which humiliates the assembly of all Madridistas using their own taxes. The initial objective seemed to be to look for beach bars outside, but the Popular Party, without a doubt, designed a beach bar right inside the Madrid Assembly”, he concludes.
Today, despite the decision of Popular Party not to call it to declare on the 13th, None of them consider that Sánchez’s option is closed and they insist that the document with which they are working is not official.
They assure that calling the president next Wednesday, while the management of DANA and the crisis are still pending, would not have been a good decision. Despite this, they do not think that they will not pull an “ace” out of their sleeve to have him appear in February or that they will increase the number of sessions to be able to call him to testify at that time.
However, the role of the Popular Party if it decides to summon the President of the Government is complicated. There is no legal report from the Madrid Assembly which proves that a president of the government or a minister comes to appear before a regional chamber, since it is considered that their field of action and the place where they must take their courses is at the National Chamber (i.e. say the Senate or Congress).
Therefore, calling him to testify and confronting the Chamber’s lawyers, forcing them to make mandatory reports could be a procedure to be avoided. Especially since, even though they managed to force him to go to the hearing (which is unprecedented in a regional chamber), would not be obliged to declare it.
