Sanchez’s partners prevent him from giving explanations on the migration crisis, Venezuela and Puigdemont

The Permanent Deputation of Congress, a body that meets during non-working hours, observed a minute of silence this Tuesday for the four women murdered by sexist violence this month. Their honors were raised in the sole desire for consensus, before addressing the agenda and launching into the fight, always with a summer energy typical of the holidays. The narrowness of each vote, two resolved by ties, makes visible the strong division in which the Lower House finds itself, where ERC, Bildu and PNV have once again become the lifeline of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez. the international community denounces the possible electoral fraud in Venezuela, that the Canary Islands are suffering a new summer of migration crisis for which no solution is proposed or that the fugitive Carles Puigdemont entered and left Spain – including participating in a rally – with impunity. For the majority of Sánchez’s partners, none of these issues are worth raising this week for the president to return to Congress to report on them. The PP participated in this meeting of the Permanent Deputation with ten requests to appear, but none of them were successful. . after closing ranks with the government, the separatist left and Basque nationalism. Only Junts and Podemos distanced themselves on certain aspects – the neoconvergents obviously – but the abstention of Ione Belarra on two of the issues was insufficient to force the Executive to offer explanations. None of the Junts supports that Montero detail “exactly” in Congress the pact with ERC for the Catalan quota A. Gubern “We want you to explain to us what was agreed and why Mr. Illa took the oath as president,” said Nogueras. The PSOE, Sumar, ERC, Bildu and PNV positioned themselves against all the PP’s demands and opposed all the PP’s demands. In no case did the popular gather support to overcome this agreement. Junts voted in favor of Sánchez’s entry into Congress due to the immigration crisis, at the point where he was closest to advancing. Podemos hesitated to force the appearance of the president, but finally opted for abstention so as not to join the right-wing formations. Puigdemont’s party abstained on all issues related to Venezuela and on the request for the appearance of the Minister of Equality Ana Redondo, while Podemos did the same by asking the head of Transport, Óscar Puente, to respond to the “railway chaos” that Spain is experiencing this summer. In the latter case, the Yes of Junts once again provoked. a tie, insufficient for the hearings to prosper. The neoconvergents also voted in favor of Sánchez to explain Puigdemont’s escape, but, in his case, to clarify why the amnesty law is not immediately applied to him – the Supreme Court excludes its application to the crime of embezzlement. , in principle, will not meet until the second week of September, in the new session schedule Vox supported the ten requests for appearance – despite its criticism of the Popular Party for its “inconsistency” in matters of immigration -, but unlike what happens in the plenary session, where PP, Vox and Junts exceed the absolute majority, the votes of these three parties in the Permanent Deputation do not reach this barrier. The request for the appearance of Sánchez for immigration and Puente for railway issues would have been advanced in the plenary, but not in the body that meets outside the session schedule. Thus, the plenary of the Congress will not be scheduled until the second week of September, in which the next session period will begin. The Permanent Deputation refused on Tuesday to summon Sánchez this week for the migration crisis, Venezuela and “the Puigdemont issue” – as the president of the Congress, Francina Armengol, has familiarly said -; to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, for two issues related to the regime of Nicolas Maduro; to the interim president of RTVE, Concepción Cascajosa, and to that of the Agencia Efe, Miguel Ángel Oliver, in both cases for the public media coverage of the Venezuelan elections; to the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, for the situation of Spanish trains; to the Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, for the error in the law on parity that allows that the fact of having requested a reduction in working hours is not a cause for null dismissal; and the First Vice-President of the Government, María Jesús Montero, for the Catalan quota. This request to appear has precisely allowed the debate on the “single financing” of Catalonia to reach Congress for the first time since the Socialists and the ERC announced their agreement. a month ago. And, as expected, it has revealed the division in the Lower House on a subject that, without knowing the details, would require parliamentary approval of a reform of the Organic Law on Financing of the Autonomous Communities (Lofca). “He has become a dissembler. “That’s what it’s for” The votes in the Permanent Deputation, where the PNV closed ranks with the Government and rejected all requests to appear requested by the PP, caused this Tuesday a rapprochement between popular and nationalists, formerly allies until the Peneuvista’s support for Pedro Sánchez’s motion of censure against Mariano Rajoy in 2018. The PNV had gone to the Senate beyond the government’s position on Venezuela and, like the PP, had demanded recognition of the electoral victory of the opponent Edmundo Gonzalez. However, this Tuesday, it opposed Sánchez and Minister José Manuel Albares going to Congress on this issue. PP spokesman Miguel Tellado criticized him and his PNV counterpart, Aitor Esteban, absent today, responded to him online. “You don’t care about Venezuela (…). “Clumsy, you are clumsy,” he wrote in X. “The PNV of Madrid has become a camouflage for the Sánchez government (…). “Very clumsy, Aitor,” replied Tellado. The PP’s request for the appearance of Vice President Montero was rejected despite the fact that early in the morning, the spokesperson for the Junts, Míriam Nogueras, had heated up the atmosphere by announcing that they were going to support her. Of course, he did so from the Barcelona municipality of Cardedeu and allowed his group’s position to be explained to Congress by the deputy Marta Madrenas, who revealed that she was “confused” about the future of Catalan funding and wanted the government to explain it. In fact, they had already registered requests for the appearance of Montero herself and also of the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños. In any case, whatever agreement between the Socialists and Republicans, it will always be insufficient for Junts: “In Catalonia, we would not even agree to a concert, we want independence,” said PP deputy Juan Bravo, Madrenas, in all his arguments. drums against the Catalan concert – “Isn’t there a socialist deputy who says enough is enough?” he asked -, as did Juan José Aizcorbe, from Vox, who described an agreement that he considers the fruit of the “monster”. “Failed state of the autonomies.” Continuing as expected, the PSOE rejected all these arguments, although far from giving explanations or details on the content of the agreement, it did so by attacking the most popular; and ERC also defended the pact and assured that they had no doubts and that it is a concert that will allow the Catalan treasury to collect its taxes. The uncertainty was created by the leader of Podemos, Ione Belarra, who doubted its coherence. The PSOE kept its promises and even warned that it could have given the ERC “a spade for a hare” in exchange for the investiture of Salvador Illa.

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