16:11
“Spain is the EU country in which inflation has fallen the most in the last month,” adds Sánchez to applause from the socialist caucus.
16:11
Sánchez boasts that at a European level, since the beginning of the war in Ukraine last February, the EU has reduced its imports of Russian gas to 8%.
16:10
From the Executive they do not want to link what happens in the debate in the Senate with the negotiations to renew the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ). “One thing has nothing to do with the other,” said Isabel Rodríguez, government spokesperson, just a few hours ago.
16:10
The president has taken just five minutes to convey his first message of calm to the public: in the face of a winter that is expected to be harsh, “no one is going to lack energy.”
16:05
“I am not going to sweeten the situation or fall into defeatism,” begins the chief executive.
16:03
The session in the Senate begins. Pedro Sánchez takes the floor to report on the scope of the latest economic measures adopted by the Government.
16:02
The government spokeswoman has also assured in the press conference after the Council of Ministers that the debate in the upper house will serve to confront the “failed” model of the Popular Party and that of the Government. “We hope that Mr. Feijóo not only alludes to terrorism or that the country is going to break up,” she said.
15:56
The Government spokeswoman, Isabel Rodríguez, announced after the Council of Ministers on Tuesday that Sánchez will transmit a message of calm to the citizens in the Senate in the face of the uncertainties that loom over the war and the rise in prices.
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15:56
Sánchez and Feijóo must move this afternoon in the Senate like the tightrope walkers on the wire: maintaining their confrontation on the management of the crisis, but without breaking the fragile truce opened by the forced negotiation on the Council of the Judicial Power. We will see. Because one thing is how the debates on the blackboard of the political strategy work and another how they end up being.
15:48
Sánchez has unlimited time for his intervention in the upper house, while Feijóo has his time restricted to 15 minutes plus another 5 for reply.
15:41
New face to face in the Senate between the President of the Government and the leader of the opposition. Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo confront their proposals for the General State Budgets starting at 4:00 p.m.
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