• Venezuela: Ábalos held a second 20-minute encounter with Delcy Rodríguez in a VIP room in Barajas
  • Demand: The Venezuelan Assembly asks Congress to investigate Ábalos' meeting with Delcy Rodríguez

The PSOE and Unidos Podemos have found the support of their investor partners (PNV, ERC, Bildu and minority groups) to prevent Congress from addressing the need to investigate the meeting that Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos held at the Barajas-Adolfo Suárez airport with Delcy Rodríguez, vice president of Venezuela. The PP and Citizens, who have requested an investigation commission on the matter, have asked to include its possible creation in the Plenary of next week. The political bloc that carried out the investiture of Pedro Sánchez has denied the request.

The appointment of Minister Ábalos with the number two of Nicolás Madura still contains many questions. As this newspaper has published, for example, the Minister of Transportation held a second meeting with Rodriguez in the VIP lounge of the airport. It was not a greeting, a farewell, it was a second meeting, after being held inside the plane, which lasted for about 20 minutes.

Despite the gaps that still exist, the two formations that make up the Government of Spain have had the support of the political forces of Congress that allowed them to reach Moncloa and who expect them to be those that allow them to carry out the General Budgets before May summer end.

The request of PP and Citizens to include in the next session of the Congress the debate on the creation of this commission of investigation has only had the support of Vox during the session of the Board of Spokespersons of the Chamber.

Both socialists and purples have justified the refusal to address the creation of this commission in which the Minister of Transportation has already given explanations, despite the multiple versions he has offered of the matter. Adriana Lastra, parliamentary spokesperson for the PSOE, considers the matter a "sterile controversy", while Pablo Echenique, his counterpart to United We, has described the issue as "media bubble."

It has even affected PP and Cs "to play with hunger" of Venezuela and "to throw gasoline" to the political conflicts of Latin America, because it sees it as "a very unpatriotic attitude that does a very weak favor to Spanish politics".

To this circumstance is added the complaint made by the PP in the Senate after knowing that the Government has addressed to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and not to Ábalos a question in this House about doing with Delcy Rodríguez. It happens that Arancha González Laya is traveling outside Spain, so the question will not be answered, despite the fact that the Minister of Transportation will be present in the Senate. The PP spokesman in the Senate, Javier Maroto, has accused the government of "hiding" the minister.

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