Madrid (EFE).- The economist Ramón Tamames has announced this Tuesday that he has accepted Vox’s offer to lead the motion of censure announced by the party chaired by Santiago Abascal against the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez.
Tamames announced it this afternoon at a meeting of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, as confirmed to EFE by members of the institution present at the meeting.
According to the same sources, the economist has not given more details about this decision.
For their part, Vox sources have not yet confirmed this point or when it will be officially made public.
In recent weeks, both Tamames and the Vox leadership had been negotiating the terms of the speech of the motion of no confidence and the content of the government program, without the economist having officially accepted his candidacy so far.
At the beginning of February, Tamames assured EFE in an interview that he plans to invite Pedro Sánchez to dinner or lunch at his house before the parliamentary session.
“I plan to invite him to dinner or lunch at home, to get to know each other before the session. It seems to me that it is normal in civilized people, and the president is, undoubtedly ”
He said he did not know Sánchez personally, although they have “ever written letters” and affirmed that his “obligation as a citizen” is to try to get to know each other better beforehand; For this reason, he will invite him to eat in the attic where he receives journalists and “the intelligentsia” and where Albert Rivera or Alberto Núñez Feijóo have had lunch.
Tamames disagrees with Abascal that Sánchez is an illegitimate president, having been constitutionally elected by “more than 175 deputies.”
In addition, in the interview he stated that the autonomous State “is forever”, against the aspirations of Vox, although he acknowledged that with the decentralization of powers in the Constitution “we have spent a bit of a thread”.
“I see in Vox an adherence to the Constitution, to the parliamentary monarchy, to the unity of Spain, almost above all else, and we fully agree on these factors, although sometimes not in form,” said the economist.
Tamames, an 89-year-old doctor in Economics, was a deputy for the PCE, co-founder of IU and later a collaborator of Adolfo Suárez in the CDS.
