In the penultimate week of 2023, the day that will intensify the controversy will be this Wednesday, in a session of the House of Representatives that promises arguably the most bitter debate between the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, and the leader of the conservative People's Party (PP ), Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
Sánchez, who is also general secretary of the Socialist Workers' Party of Spain (PSOE), has several open fronts and the latest is a political maneuver that will hand the mayor of Pamplona, Navarra, to EH Bildu.
Only on Wednesday, Socialists and Bildu will submit a motion of no confidence against the mayor of Pamplona, Cristina Ibarrola, of UPN de Navarra, thus opening the doors to Joseba Asiron.
The PP, the UPN and all forces on the right rejected the change, believing that Bildu was a party linked to ETA's bloody past and had a dark record of terrorist actions and murders.
Determined to exploit all the vulnerabilities of the newly installed head of government, a meeting between Núñez Feijóo and Sánchez is scheduled before the end of the year, since there are a number of key issues for the country that would require rapprochement according to the criteria of the State. .
However, the PP and its far-right ally Vox appear determined to force the challenge of the Sánchez government in the short term, with the main bone of contention being the proposal for an amnesty law that would benefit the junts' independentists. for Catalonia.
The PSOE agreed to Junts in exchange for their votes, paving the way for Sánchez's re-election as head of government.
So far, Feijóo has refused to respond to the Moncloa Palace tenant's proposal for a meeting. In addition to the amnesty law and the specific Pamplona case, the spearheads are currently revolving around the renewal of the General Council of Justice.
This Wednesday's parliamentary session promises at least a tough exchange between Sánchez and Feijóo, with no political truce in sight for either party to assume the role of supporting the Spanish state.
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