The PP will launch this week an offensive against the Government to clarify the mysterious meeting in Barajas of the Minister of Transportation, José Luis Ábalos, and the vice president of Nicolás Maduro, Delcy Rodríguez . An interpellation to the minister, several questions and numerous initiatives of the main opposition party will try to put the focus of the first session of control of the legislature in number three of the PSOE and in its meeting with the Bolivarian leader.

The PP will not only question Ábalos on Wednesday - the spokesperson for the interpellation will be Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo. The Government spokeswoman, María Jesús Montero, and Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska will also ask about this matter.

After the debate between Álvarez de Toledo and Ábalos, the PP may present a motion of disapproval and put it to a vote the following week at the Plenary Session.

For his part, the president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, will raise the shot and ask directly about this issue to the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in the first face to face between the leader of the radical party and the head of the Executive.

The opposition leader, Pablo Casado, has chosen an open question to open in the control session this term: «Is the president of the Government willing to respect the rule of law?» In these types of issues, Casado usually mixes multitude of current affairs to roast the leader of the PSOE.

Citizens, in the only question you will have in the control session, since you now only have 10 deputies, you will also ask Minister Ábalos about this matter. The person in charge of doing it will be its deputy spokesman, Edmundo Bal .

The PP will not only bring the meeting of Ábalos and Delcy Rodríguez to their questions and interpellations. The popular ones have formulated numerous written questions to access, for example, the video record of Barajas in the early morning of January 20. Or to know, even, the phone calls made by Ábalos that night, as well as one of his advisors, since the PP suspects that among them is a call to the President of the Government to speak directly with the Chavista president, as has been published. This extreme has been denied by Sanchez, by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and by Moncloa.

The PP also wants to know the police actions of the border post of Barajas on the night that the events occurred.

The Popular Group also asks the Government if Delcy Rodríguez has been in Spanish territory on any other occasion in 2019. As noted in the PP, the same plane that landed in Barajas on January 20 arrived in Madrid on November 6 of the year Last, four days before the general elections that Pedro Sánchez won again. If Maduro's number two had come to Spain before, the PP asks if there were also meetings with socialist government ministers.

They also want the Government to clarify whether Vice President Pablo Iglesias spoke with Rodriguez during his stay at the airport or if the leader of Podemos had any role in organizing the visit of the Vice President of Venezuela. To know, in short, if he played an intermediary role between governments.

Citizens has also recorded up to 33 written questions about the visit of the Chavista leader. In addition, both the PP and Cs have requested the creation of a commission of inquiry in Congress on this matter.

As EL MUNDO advanced, the Foreign Policy Commission of the National Assembly of Venezuela has addressed the Spanish political groups to open an "exhaustive investigation" about Rodriguez's visit and his meeting with Ábalos, to know "what it is that there is behind that interview.

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  • José Luis Ábalos
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  • Pedro Sanchez
  • Vox
  • Pablo Casado
  • Nicolás Maduro
  • Maria Jesus Montero
  • Fernando Grande-Marlaska

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