The grotesque sometimes he disguises himself as an ally of the opposition. The Plenary Session of Congress discussed this Tuesday the taking into consideration of a PP bill on a matter that is already being processed in the Lower House because the PP itself approved it with its absolute majority in the Senate. The rule is within the amendment period, but what ‘a priori’ could have seemed ‘absurd’, as one speaker remarked during the parliamentary debate, ‘a posteriori’ has translated into a new defeat for the PSOE and served to showcase the open seams no longer with his investiture partners, but with the ally with which the Council of Ministers is divided.
Sumar has abstained from voting on the reform of the National Security Law and with this allowed the PP, which also added the support of Vox, to emerge victorious from a plenary session in which the socialists defended the vote against the initiative. . The PSOE spokesperson in Congress, Patxi López, after the meeting of the Board of Spokespersons, defended his party’s rejection of the text, arguing that the Senate had already approved this law and was in processing in the Lower House. That is true, but it is also true that the PSOE already opposed it in the Upper House and that its partners abstained.
The vast majority of allies of Pedro Sánchez’s investiture they repeated López’s argument, that it was absurd to take into consideration a law that is already being processed in Congress – now it will have to be combined with the previous initiative -, but sources from Sumar, in the morning, left clues of what was going to happen next. “If the PP looks favorably on our law –on mortgages–, we will look favorably on theirs.”
Said and done, Sumar abstained from the popular initiative and the PP voted in favor of the mortgage proposal to pursue the banks’ abusive clauses and prevent the evictions of people affected by them. The proposal of the PP, which has been criticized for maintaining the opposite position when it governed, proposes that the Government must have authorization from Congress both to send military material abroad – read the Ukrainian war – and to launch international missions that are not directly related to the security of Spain.
The PP proposes this issue after its leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, complained bitterly that President Sánchez did not consult with him, as head of the first opposition party, on the position to adopt on sensitive foreign policy issues. Something that was traditionally done, but that the socialist has left in disuse.
In any case, the popular ones are aware of the fundamental discrepancies of the PSOE and its partners both in the sending of aid to Ukraine, rejected by Podemos, and in the position with Israel. Little by little Sánchez has been getting closer to the postulates of his allies in this second, but Sumar, ERC, Bildu and Podemos demand that he go further and coordinate international pressure to judge the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, for alleged genocide on the Gaza Strip and other bordering areas of the Middle East.
This exchange of votes makes visible a new defeat of the PSOE – although the vice president María Jesús Montero and López deny it –, at the doors of the negotiation of the general budgets of the State, where its usual supports put disparate demands on the table. Junts, for now, asks for prior negotiation to support the objective of stability with a distribution from which Catalonia benefits.
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