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The Congress of Deputies will definitively approve the euthanasia law this coming Thursday after the PSOE has found a parliamentary trick to circumvent the Vox veto and force the vote to take place before the Christmas holidays.

As it has not been able to modify the order of the day to include it in this Plenary, which begins today and ends on Thursday, the Socialists have relied on their parliamentary partners to convene another Plenary immediately afterwards for said vote to be held, and not wait for 2021 .

In this way, the parties that support the Government will be able to match this rule with what will be their main political victory in Parliament, the approval before the end of the year of the Budgets.

In this way, it will be able to boast of having "stability", strength and "efficiency" in the face of an opposition led by the PP, as the number two of the PSOE in Congress, Rafael Simancas, has begun to proclaim today.

"We add majority after majority, law after law, social advance after social advance," he said.

To make that show of force, the PSOE has stepped on the accelerator in recent weeks so that the euthanasia law could be ready and approved before Christmas, despite the fact that the PNV, which is in favor of the rule, had expressed his discomfort to be done on these dates.

The Socialists have proposed this Tuesday to change the agenda of the Plenary session so that the rule is voted on this Thursday, however, Vox has opposed.

As a change in the agenda requires the unanimity of the parliamentary groups, the matter had been settled.

That's when the PSOE has played another card and has claimed to convene a plenary session immediately after the other ends, that same Thursday.

As for this only a majority of the Board of Spokespersons is needed and not unanimity, the PSOE and its parliamentary partners have put the proposal forward.

"It was going to be approved in one way and now it will be approved in another", Simancas has justified.

The conclusion is that the euthanasia law will be approved on Thursday and it will do so with a very large and solid majority.

Only the PP and Vox oppose the rule and, after the work in the Justice Commission, it is supported by formations such as the PSOE, United We Can, Ciudadanos, ERC, PNV, EH Bildu, Más País, Compromís or JxCat, among others.

Thus, the so-called "dignified death" will be a new right in Spain, although in order for it to be applied, it will still be necessary to wait for it to be completed in the Senate.

COMMISSION ON 'KITCHEN': December 22

Another very relevant matter, which promises to be an earthquake for the PP, has to do with the so-called Kitchen operation, that is, the alleged espionage of the former popular treasurer Luis Bárcenas by the Ministry of the Interior.

There is already a date for the commission of inquiry to be constituted in Congress.

It will be on December 22.

The objective will be to investigate whether during the period of Mariano Rajoy in the Government and Jorge Fernández Díaz in the Ministry of the Interior public resources were used "not to prosecute the crime but to cover it up."

To minimize the case of the Bárcenas papers and the alleged irregular financing of the PP.

PSOE, United We Can and its partners want leaders of the highest level to parade through the commission during that stage in the PP and in the Government and everything indicates that they will be called Rajoy or María Dolores de Cospedal.

There is still no closed list of those appearing because the PSOE and United We Can not agree on whether to call to go to the former commissioner Villarejo or the president of the PP, Pablo Casado.

In the absence of consensus, PSOE and United We Can have decided to launch the investigation commission and leave the list of appearing parties for later, although the purple ones will insist on the presence of Casado and Villarejo.

Once constituted, the parties will also decide what documentation is required.

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