Madrid (EFE).- With the electoral campaign already underway, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the leader of the opposition, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, will make a parenthesis in their electoral agendas to face each other this Monday in the plenary session of the Senate in a new face to face fostered by the questions of the control session.
After his meeting with Joe Biden at the White House and with an intense program of party activities under the horizon of the regional and municipal elections of 28M, Sánchez will answer a question from the leader of the PP who, as usual in plenary sessions of control , will serve to open a broad political debate between the two.
“Does the President of the Government consider that the Spanish deserve to be told the truth?”, is the question that Feijóo has registered to question Pedro Sánchez about his entire management, the promises that he considers unfulfilled and his reliability to the time to lead the coalition government together with United We Can.
Political current affairs, such as the Bildu lists
In the background are the main current political and campaign issues, from the Government’s measures to deal with the drought to the presence on the Bildu municipal lists of those convicted of terrorism, without forgetting the internal tensions between the coalition partners. that the PP always brings to the fore.
Both will have seven minutes each in separate turns, unlike the face-to-face ones that they have held on the occasion of Pedro Sánchez’s monographic appearances in the Upper House, in which the president can intervene without a time limit.
Since he assumed the leadership of the PP and was appointed autonomous senator by the Parliament of Galicia, the Senate has been the setting where the head of the opposition has been able to debate with the President of the Government, and has done so in various formats, through monographic appearances or in control sessions.
In this plenary session, which will begin at four in the afternoon, Pedro Sánchez will answer two more questions formulated by the senator of the Canary Islands Coalition Fernando Clavijo and by the representative of Més per Mallorca, Vicenç Vidal.
Clavijo will ask the president to evaluate compliance with the measures included in the General State Budget for 2023 for the Canary Islands and Vidal will urge Sánchez to clarify what he plans to do to combat the “pressing problem” of housing in the Balearic Islands.
The autonomous nature of both questions will be reproduced in the rest of the control session, where the government ministers will respond to very local questions from the senators of various parliamentary groups, also with an eye on the regional and municipal elections of 28M.