Vox blames the PP for being excluded from the tables of congressional committees and does not hide its anger about it. The Secretary General of the Ultra Party, Ignacio Garriga, accused this Monday the popular leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo of not responding to his group’s repeated calls to coordinate an offensive against the government, and instead joining “the party and Sumar” . The PP has agreed with the PSOE to preside over twelve commissions: two that already corresponded to it as the majority party in Congress, and another ten presidencies achieved through agreement with the Socialists, explain popular parliamentary sources.
Already at the creation of the congressional committee on August 17, Vox accused the PP of not giving her any of her positions in the governing body of the lower house and threatened not to vote for Feijóo’s investiture, which was ultimately unsuccessful. Now Vox complains that the PP does not grant it seats at the tables of the three dozen commissions of the Congress, which limits its political maneuverability (it is the tables that decide the calendar of meetings and the agenda of the same) and also its income: The Members of the tables receive a supplement ranging from 1,500 euros per month for the president to 800 euros for each secretary. In the last legislative period, in which there were 19 more deputies than in this one, Vox was also not included in the committee tables, except in three cases: petitions, statute of deputies and rules of procedure.
Other PP parliamentary sources assure that there is no pact with the PSOE and Sumar on the distribution of seats at the committee tables (“we vote for ourselves,” they claim). While the popular leadership attributes Vox’s anger to a “money issue,” a reference to the financial allowance that comes with certain positions on congressional committees. “Before he picks up his, he should pick up mine,” executives argue.
Garriga slammed the PP, saying that “it is not clear that it is calling for demonstrations on Sunday.” [en referencia a la protagonizada por Feijóo en el templo de Debod en Madrid] and on Monday I agreed with the Socialist Party and Sumar in Congress.” In his opinion, what happened shows that Génova “does not want to work hand in hand with Vox to stop this coup,” as stated in the future amnesty law. On the contrary, Feijóo’s entourage denounces that the Ultra party set up an information stand for its trade union arm Solidaridad at the event organized by the PP in the capital yesterday and that the Vox MP José María Figaredo made statements before its start. “We respond quite politely to their provocations,” management sources add.
“They have a global fee-sharing agreement in place. What they repeat so often: “There is a coup, we will be the resistance, we will be represented in institutions, in courts, on the streets,” Feijóo said yesterday. “They don’t believe it, they are making agreements and pacts with the coup plotters,” Figaredo explained this Monday at a press conference in Congress. Despite the upswing, Garriga did not want to talk about the break in relations with the PP, as some media had predicted, and certainly not about the break in the governments that divide them into five autonomous communities. On the contrary, Garriga has assured that his party will seek an understanding with the regional barons of the PP and will fight from the regional governments against the Sánchez government, since an agreement with its national leadership is not possible.
A few minutes before Garriga’s appearance, PP spokesman Borja Sémper referred to his party’s relations with Vox. “We will not lose ourselves in the partisan interests of other parties, including those of Vox. I can understand the internal circumstances, but it will not affect our political position,” the deputy secretary said at a press conference at the state headquarters of the People’s Parties. The confirmation of Sémper as spokesman for the PP in the newly designed popular leadership committee is intended to adopt “social” banners that the left has “appropriated,” according to other sources in the popular leadership, who cite the actual equality of men as an example. and women.
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The new members of the steering committee, which for the first time include more women than men, are not just “incorporations”, but rather a response to the need to establish “political positions”, assured Sémper. “We refuse to make them the property of the left,” he added. But this strategy clashes with the arguments of the ultras, with whom they share five regional governments and the local governments of around 140 municipalities. “One thing is national politics and another is the territories,” contrast these sources from the popular leadership.
Also in the background is the fight between Feijóo and the president of the Ultras, Santiago Abascal, over the leadership of the street protest against the amnesty. Abascal did not attend the PP event this Sunday, but supported the event that took place on November 12 at the Puerta del Sol in Madrid and was convened by the population in all capitals of Spain. And both came together on November 18 at the Cibeles protest, also in Madrid, which was promoted by a hundred right-wing and far-right associations and civic forums, although they did not share a photo.
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