Vox, who had been offside, backs into position and enters the game. He will finally participate in the congressional commission that will work on a possible State pact to face the coronavirus health and economic emergency. And, consequently, the formation modulates its rejection of dialogue with the Government after it had considered relations and all interlocution broken.

The participation of Vox has been announced this Thursday by Santiago Abascal, who has assured that it has been final in his decision that the calls by Pedro Sánchez as the "reconstruction pacts" will be developed in a parliamentary committee, and not in multilateral meetings led by Moncloa, as at first the President of the Government intended to do, in a sort of reissue of the La Moncloa Transition Pacts .

Once the leader of the PP, Pablo Casado, took this commitment from Sánchez to transfer all the political dialogue to Congress, during the conversation that both held last Monday, Vox has spent in a few days strongly rejecting being present at these meetings to want to be one more and to try to make an eminently critical voice heard when managing the crisis.

The risk for the country's third political force was to be completely isolated and out of the central core of the political debate in the coming months. Because the works will last until summer. Now, even if he does not sign a final agreement, at least he can raise his voice to make himself heard and present his proposals.

Despite the Casado-Sánchez agreement to create the commission, Vox had left itself a few days to decide what to do and to reflect on the suitability of its participation or not in the commission, because it has been ensuring that the Moncloa pacts are no other which is a "farce" and a "propaganda" maneuver by Sánchez. And in case it collided with his frontage strategy of demanding the resignation of the Government.

In fact, since he stated that there was only room for his resignation and the configuration of a "national emergency" government, Abascal had twice refused to speak to Sánchez by telephone. One, to talk about the state of alarm and, another, to address the development of these pacts.

"We will participate in the parliamentary commission taking our proposals, which until now the other parties have not wanted to debate. Among them is the government's resignation en bloc and its replacement by a national emergency government, as well as the immediate payment of wages and workers' compensation and freelancers who have been prevented from working, "said Abascal.

The Vox leader has "celebrated" that the government "has been forced to abandon its claim for unacceptable propaganda deals outside Parliament" and that the talks will now be "with light and stenographers." A condition that Vox has always set at all times to talk to the Government and which is now a reality.

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