Belen Gil Orantos |
Madrid (EFE).- Only Vox and the government of Pedro Sánchez view with interest the motion of no confidence with Ramón Tamames as a candidate that is being debated today and tomorrow in Congress, where the rest of the parties believe to a greater or lesser extent that it is not It deserves too much appreciation when leaving the game without any sign of prospering.
Most of the formations face the debate of what will be the sixth motion of no confidence in democracy and the second promoted by Vox in this legislature, which was also debated on the 21st and 22nd, but in October 2020, without too many expectations. and with Santiago Abascal as a candidate for president.
As then, the motion will only have the support of the 52 Vox deputies. This time the PP of Alberto Núñez Feijóo will abstain, it will not oppose like that of Pablo Casado. The rest will vote overwhelmingly no.
Two days after the debate, the parties study strategies. These are their positions:
Vox: portray Sánchez and weaken the PP
Vox decided in November to promote another motion of censure with the double objective of portraying the “harmful” policies of the government coalition of the PSOE and Unidas Podemos and weakening the PP to lead the opposition or at least subtract votes from it to condition future pacts.
His commitment to an independent candidate -a politician from the Transition like Tamames with the sole mission of calling elections- allows Abascal not to lose again against Sánchez, to lead the political agenda and expose Feijóo for stepping aside despite having also asked for the electoral advance.
Abascal will only go up to the rostrum on the first day to present the motion. Afterwards, he will hand over the baton to the candidate, while the groups’ turn will be for the parliamentary spokesman, Iván Espinosa.
Government: focus on the ambiguity of Feijóo
The Government will turn during the debate to attack the “ambiguity” of the PP leader and his approach to Vox by going from no of 2020 to abstention.
The motion is considered by the Government as a constitutional instrument and, therefore, it gives it the utmost importance and sees it as an opportunity to contrast two country models: its own and that of “the extreme right, increasingly supported by the right.” ”.
A position that Sánchez himself will defend. The possibility that a minister may also intervene, such as Vice President Yolanda Díaz, by the purple wing of the Executive, is not ruled out.
PSOE: two policies, “the delirium” of Vox and “the escape” of Feijóo
The Socialists have indicated from the first day that they will take the motion “seriously”, since they are aware that Sánchez did the same in 2018 with the popular Mariano Rajoy, and will be used to try to demonstrate the benefits of the Social Democrats.
His spokesman in Congress, Patxi López, leaves the distribution of roles in the hands of the Executive and believes that the debate will serve, in addition to confronting the two political models, to verify the “random” of Vox and the “leak” of Feijóo.
PP: abstention against the “eccentric” Abascal and “the reckless” Sánchez
Genoa defends Feijóo’s abstention, as well as his decision not to attend the debate. She understands that she deactivates the idea of the right-wing bloc that Sánchez supports and that Vox does not like either and that she places them in the center, between the “eccentricities” of Abascal and the “reckless” policies of Sánchez and his associates.
They believe that it will be evident that Feijóo is the best option against Sánchez at the polls and that Vox has sought media focus knowing that it strengthens the Government. The strategy of the debate has not yet been set and the party has still not made it official that the spokesperson, Cuca Gamarra, be the one to intervene.
United We Can: only women against Vox
In Unidas Podemos they talk about a “waste of time” and a “battle” between PP and Vox, although they will not waste it. They will stand up to progressive advances such as “the best vaccine against the extreme right” and will ask the PSOE for a turn to the left.
Its leader, Ione Belarra, has proposed that only women intervene to confront the “macho extreme right” and show that advances arise in feminism.
ERC: “a circus” that will not let Sánchez escape
ERC will participate in the “circus” out of respect for parliamentarism. He will face Vox, but he will not let Sánchez get away “off the hook”.
Its spokesman, Gabriel Rufián, acknowledges that he would have preferred to annul the motion by boycotting it and minimizes it by pointing out that he has not yet had time to think about how his group will act.
Citizens: alternative proposals to bipartisanship
In Ciudadanos they understand the motion as an opportunity to demonstrate that there is an alternative to bipartisanship and that it is not enough to throw Sánchez out.
They will take advantage of it to present their proposed reforms to help families and the middle class, “squeezed and threatened” by the coalition, which also shields privileges for nationalists.
PNV: listen and answer, but little
The Basque group sees no sense in the motion. He thinks her incoherent. Even so, they assure that they will listen to the candidate and answer “something that is fixed and adequate”, but without exhausting their 30 minutes.
In the debate of the first, the spokesman, Aitor Esteban, only used 90 seconds. In his opinion, Vox is only “noise and many inconsistencies.”
EH Bildu: “an absurdity” that fuels political disaffection
For Bildu, the motion is a “bad joke” and an “absurd spectacle” without options that will only fuel political disaffection. His spokesperson, Mertxe Aizpurua, will intervene given that there will be no joint position of the groups.
Plural and mixed groups: an attack on the PP
The minority formations coincide in seeing the motion as a means by Vox to attack the PP and a useless initiative that harms the prestige of Parliament and benefits the PSOE.