This week’s marathon plenary session in the Congress of Deputies. After Francina Armengol suspend the control session and other items on the agenda for Wednesday, October 30, due to DANAthe Lower House faces a session with several very different parts starting this Tuesday. On the one hand, the Congress will definitively appoint the eleven RTVE advisors proposed by the Government and its allies. On the other hand, the People’s Party (PP) will try to corner the Executive with up to nine questions about his management of DANA, in a move to try to obscure the actions of Pedro Sánchez and remove focus from Carlos Mazón.
The strategy of the popular, how he told Publicit is clear: avoid going out victims of the poor management of president Valencian and blame the Government for the errors in the management of DANA. The slogan is not “save Mazón”, but practically the opposite. The relationship between him and Alberto Núñez Feijóo It has not been good since the Valencian conditioned the PP’s electoral strategy for the general elections of July 23, 2023 by agreeing with Vox to obtain the Government of the Valencian Country.
In Genoa there is, therefore, no interest in protecting Mazón – this has been evident in more than one statement in recent days – and in the questions that the PP will address to the Executive in the control session one can perfectly read the double strategy of Feijóo’s. By asking the Government to account, again, as to why it did not raise the level of emergency, it confirms its lack of confidence in Mazón’s ability and, at the same time, places the responsibility for the tragedy on the Moncloa, which it accuses of neglecting its duties. its functions.
In any case, it will not be Pedro Sanchez who answers the interrogation popular. The President of the Executive will not attend the control session as it coincides with COP29, the Climate Summit of the United Nations, which is being held this year in Azerbaijan.
The PP will ask the Fernando Grande-MarlaskaMinister of the Interior, if he advised against raising the level of emergency; how you assess, in general terms, the Government’s actions; how much international aid has been offered to the Executive on the occasion of the DANA and will ask for an assessment on security during the visit of Felipe VI and Letizia Ortiz to Paiporta. TO Maria Jesus Monterofirst vice president of the Government and Minister of Finance, will also request a general assessment; sarcastically, he will ask him if “he thinks it’s time to make life more difficult for Spaniards” and invite you to explain what you think about the fluidity of the collaboration between institutions.
You will also have to respond Margaret RoblesMinister of Defense. She will be questioned about the role of the Armed Forces, whose presence popular have considered late, and because of “the reaction of their government partners during the DANA catastrophe.” The truth is that, as this media has toldSánchez’s allies in Congress have offered their collaboration, also registering proposals for expand aid packages.
To the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Angel Victor Torresthe popular They will ask him if he considers that all the members of the Government to which he belongs have acted correctly. In any case, Torres will appear, at his own request, on the same Wednesday to explain the actions of the Executive. It will do so before the control session and all parliamentary groups will be able to intervene.
The protests this weekend in Valencia, which, according to the Government Delegation, have brought together 130,000 peoplethey have left the PP in a very bad place. The concentration took place under a manifesto that largely blames Mazón for the tragedyalthough it also grants responsibilities to the central government. However, the cries of “Mazón, resignation” and the reaction of the Valencian PP by labeling the mobilization as “Catalanist” denote the message that Mazón and his team received. Furthermore, media attention has invariably remained on the management of the popular. Those from Feijóo will try, this Wednesday, to change the step.
Election of the RTVE Council
The control session will be held this Wednesday and before, on Tuesday, Congress will vote definitively on the 11 members of the RTVE Council that elects the Lower House. The other four are chosen by the Senate. This is an issue that has generated a lot of controversy, since the Government approved in Congress the legislative reform for the election of the Council of public television and radio just at the moment when the ravages of DANA were beginning to be known. Francina Armengol suspended all parliamentary activity except the vote on the decree with said reform.
Below, the eleven new councilors, among whom stands out for the criticism they have received from the opposition Esther de la Mataformer director of the Ministry of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, were endorsed by the RTVE Mixed Commission. This Tuesday the vote will take place so that they are definitively elected. For this to happen in the first vote, they need a two-thirds qualified majority. If you do not obtain it, and this is one of the things that has changed with the new reform, you will only need one absolute majority (176 or more seats) to move forward.
In another order of things, on Thursday, in a session in which the points that were postponed by DANA will be recovered, the final approval of the law of efficiency in Justice which includes measures to digitize, streamline and bring Spanish Justice closer to citizens. There was also going to be a vote on the Commission’s opinion on a bill to establish a complementary tax on multinationals that includes two amendments to modify the banking tax and eliminate energy. Finally, the item will fall from the agenda, since Esquerra Republicana and EH Bildu have stopped the progress of the initiative by warning that the law will not be able to count on their votes if these amendments are maintainedwhich, to make matters worse, the PSOE agreed with PNV and Together for Catalonia. Also Can has been against the PSOE plan.
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