The Congress of Deputies will vote this Tuesday on a non-law proposal from the PP in which Government urged to recognize Edmundo González Urrutia as winner of Venezuelan electionswho has been in Spain after requesting political asylum. A vote that was requested before the exile of the opponent since now the “popular” have modified their discourse, ensuring that “The candidate of the Venezuelan people is Maria Corina Machado“.
In fact, this Monday, the deputy secretary of Institutional Affairs of the PP, Esteban González Pons, was dislocated inside and outside his party due to his turn against the opponent Edmundo González. “It is time to remember that candidate of the Venezuelan people is Maria Corina Machado, who if she was not at the head of the candidacy, it is because the regime disqualified so he wouldn’t win and that it continues until the endneither sells nor surrenders to the dictatorship” he said, clearly referring to the Venezuelan opposition leader.
However, the PP is continuing with this initiative because it will help it confront the government in the Congress of Deputies. with an initiative that seeks to seduce Pedro Sánchez’s partners. The non-law proposal could move forward in its entirety or several of its points, since not only the PP and Vox demand the recognition of the victory of the Venezuelan opposition, but also the allies of the government like the PNV and Canarian Coalition.
At a press conference, its spokesman Borja Sémper acknowledged that the Popular Group “logically” talk to other groups parliamentarians and said he expects “coherence” from the parties, so that they are not “hostages” to an “absurd strategy of the Government”.
The government does not change its mind
With this initiative, registered in August, Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s party wants Congress to urge the government to adopt this position and call for an end to the repression against the protests, the release of political prisoners and to contribute to the personal safety of María Corina Machado and González Urrutia himself.
They also demand that the Executive carry out the recognition of González in the European institutions with the aim that the On January 10, 2025, he takes office as President of Venezuela. The PP also accuses, in the explanatory part of the proposal, the former president of the government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, whom it reproaches for his “silence”, a clear example, they say, “of this unacceptable lack of commitment to truth and justice”.
After the arrival in Madrid of the former presidential candidate and opposition leader, the PP insists that his victory be recognized while the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, assured that the position regarding the situation in Venezuela It has not undergone any changes and continues to require the submission of electoral files. of the last presidential elections so that they can be verified, because otherwise no supposed victory could be recognized.
Other votes
The plenary session of the Congress, with which normal activity resumes in the Lower House, will also debate two other important issues this Monday, such as the migration crisis and regional financingThis Tuesday, a non-legislative proposal from Vox is being voted on to eliminate the subsidy provided for minors who do not have Spanish nationality, an item on the agenda that, as expected, will be used by Santiago Abascal’s party to discuss the migration crisis.
A PP motion will also be debated for the Government to report on the forecasts and commitments made in terms of regional financing, a debate opened after the pact between the socialists and the ERC that envisages a single financing for Catalonia and that confronts the Government with the people and the communities where it governs. In parallel with this, the full will see another ERC motion on reduction working time and a non-legal proposal from the PSOE regarding measures to be taken regarding the practice of reduction.
The Congress of Deputies will also debate the draft amendment to the Organic Law of Reintegration and Improvement of the Foral Regime of Navarre (Lorafna), which will correct the objections raised by the Supreme Court to annul the transfer of exclusive powers traffic to the foral community. This reform, agreed by the Spanish and Navarrese governments in the Transfer Commission, means protecting the exclusive competence of Navarre in matters of traffic and road safety, which is now exercised by both the foral police and the Civil Guard.
