Madrid, (EFE).- The president of the Congress, Meritxell Batet, has confirmed this Monday that the motion of censure promoted by Vox against the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, with the economist Ramón Tamames as a candidate, will be held next week , between Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 March.
Batet has appeared briefly at the Desk of the Lower House to report the dates of what will be Vox’s second motion in this legislature, a debate schedule that has already been communicated to Pedro Sánchez as well as to the candidate himself to take over from him at the Palacio de the Moncloa.
The debate will begin on Tuesday, March 21, and the vote will take place on Wednesday, March 22.
The parliamentary procedure to celebrate this initiative provided for in the Constitution was activated on the 7th, when the Congress Table gave the green light to Vox’s motion of censure, once it had been verified that it met all the requirements, that is, signed by at least one tenth of the 350 deputies, with a reasoned letter and with a candidate who had accepted it.
The appointment of veteran ex-politician and economist Ramón Tamames, 89, who was a leader of the PCE during the Transition, was a member of the CDS and is now a member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, caused some controversy, among other reasons for having expressed some ideas not shared by Vox, a party that has always defended its worth to face Sánchez.
However, as happened with the previous motion of no confidence headed by the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, the commitment of his formation has no chance of prospering and is doomed to failure, although with fewer negative votes, since the PP , who rejected Abascal’s when Pablo Casado led the party, now, under the mandate of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, intends to abstain.
Once the dates of what will be the sixth motion of censure of the democratic period in Spain are known, the Congress will culminate all those issues related to the organization of the plenary session, among which the location of the candidate, who is not part of the Chamber and of which it is not yet known where he will sit when he is not in the rostrum defending his program.
To gather ideas for the speech, which he has been preparing for several weeks, even before Vox confirmed that he was going to be its candidate, Tamames has asked citizens for ideas to incorporate them into the speech with which he will justify the need to evict Pedro Sánchez from Moncloa and to call early elections, the ultimate purpose of the initiative.