The political crisis is open in the channel between the PSOE / Government / President of Congress and United We Can, but the institutions are working at full capacity. United We can vividly maintain the recriminations against the president of Congress, Meritxell Batet, for having attended the Supreme Court in its decision to disqualify deputy Alberto Rodríguez as a member of Congress for the Santa Cruz de Tenerife constituency. The struggle lasts longer than the socialist group, the members of the Table of that secondment and its president would have liked. Even so, and in the midst of recriminations and requests for Batet’s resignation by the socialists’ government partners, the institutional machine works. This Wednesday the Central Electoral Board (JEC) will take into consideration the communication from the president of Congress that Deputy Alberto Rodríguez has lost his status as a parliamentarian and must be replaced by a member of the list who accepts to occupy a seat almost in half of the legislature. Who will be is not up to the Electoral Board but to those concerned and their political groups. The vigor with which Unidos Podemos resists the replacement of Alberto Rodríguez, whom they consider to have been convicted of kicking a police officer without sufficient evidence, does not prevent Izquierda Unida and Podemos from talking about the person they should occupy Rodríguez’s seat, which has not yet been fully decided.
The replacement will take place although there were initial and very hot comments about leaving the seat of the Canarian deputy empty. But it will not lessen the direct and open attack of United We Can against the third authority of the State. The crisis is of great magnitude, as recognized by both parties, since the harshness of the recriminations of the president from the parliamentary spokesperson, Pablo Echenique, and the Minister of Social Affairs, Ione Belarra, open a wide-ranging institutional fissure .
In socialist circles they hurt that Batet has to face this situation when the climate of the chamber is already sufficiently charged, and without truce, between the majority parliamentarians and the opposition. In socialist government media, despite the initial confusion about whether Rodríguez lost the seat or not, the impossibility that an institutional position of the PSOE (or the PSC in this case) could turn its back on a Supreme Court ruling is highlighted.
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