At the end of the two-day parliamentary debates, the left-wing forces received 201 votes against the Vox initiative, 53 in favor and 91 abstentions (from the conservative Popular Party (PP) and two dissidents from a Navarre organization).
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called the act a constitutional fraud and accused veteran economist Ramón Tamames of having little respect for Congress, and deplored the absence of PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
Tamames was the figure used by Vox to introduce the motion of no confidence in the executive branch, which was known to have been defeated in advance but served to heat up the atmosphere for the upcoming May 28 local and regional elections.
“It will be history that judges the scorched earth policy that Vox has practiced,” said Sánchez in his second intervention after yesterday’s.
The two sessions also made it possible to definitively nominate second vice president and labor minister Yolanda Díaz as the candidate for the Moncloa Palace in the November elections, which will be officially announced on April 2nd.
Díaz, the top figure of the Unidas Podemos bloc, the minority party in Sánchez’s socialist government, will announce his desire to lead a movement that will go by the name of Sumar, which will clearly become a political party.
Tamames displayed numerous inconsistencies in his various appearances, in addition to paying the weight of his 89 years of age by falling asleep in the chamber.
Gabriel Rufián, speaker in the lower house of Catalonia’s republican left, lamented “the way Tamames has aged, from red to facha”, about his communist past and now an idea of the far right.
He described the economist as a well-read man, but also with a great desire to appear on television.
For their part, United We Can called Vox’s motion of no confidence crippling, which “brings no solution and is a monstrosity”.
The conference also facilitated the deployment of PP spokeswoman Cuca Gamarra, who hurled hard arrows at the head of government and his ministers, expressing confidence that her organization’s conservatives would return to Moncloa this year
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