The leaders of the PP are inclined to vote 'no' to the motion of censure of Vox

• Congress Santiago Abascal will be the candidate in the Vox motion of no confidence and will promise to call elections

• Politics.Vox attacks the PP for ignoring the motion of censure: "There is no opposition saying 'yes' to the Government"

Vox's motion of censure is, in reality, an operation to harass and demolish the PP.

An attempt to regain lost ground on the right, not to weaken the Executive.

This is what the

leadership thinks

: Santiago Abascal wants to bend the polls, now that Pablo Casado's are close to the PSOE in voting intentions.

And fish in the troubled river of tension.

Vox, which foresees that the motion will be presented at the end of this month, with its president as candidate, denies the tacticism and assures that the objective is to call elections.

Genoa ignores this movement and believes that it will only reinforce Pedro Sánchez: "They continue in polarization and in confrontation because of confrontation."

But misgivings, there are.

Some regional presidents of the PP have telephoned or written to each other these days to "analyze the situation" and have agreed on the difficulty for Pablo Casado to now face a motion of censure from Vox to Pedro Sánchez.

First, because the leader of the PP must get the tone, form and content right to stage his turn towards more moderate, managerial or simply "broad" positions.

And do not get carried away by the siren songs of Santiago Abascal, in pursuit of a butt opposition.

One of the five barons of the PP confirms these conversations and assures that the "fundamental" thing is that Casado "gets it right" in the speech "and especially in the tone" to make himself visible as a "serious" alternative to the "frivolities" of an Abascal that "favors Sánchez."

The "new team" is "a success" because of the "managerial" signal it transmits, but it must be translated into policies and speeches, he adds.

In addition, in some of the territories governed by the PP there is discomfort due to the bad times of the calendar.

The debate will take place -in principle- at a time of internal anxiety of the PP, after the dismissal of Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo and her subsequent criticism of Pablo Casado, and above all, after the new revelations of the

, which point directly to the former leadership of the PP: former Interior Minister Jorge Fernández, former Secretary General María Dolores de Cospedal and former President Mariano Rajoy.

The Prosecutor's Office has already asked the judge to accuse the first two.

The party regrets that it arrives in full internal storm due to the 'Kitchen case'

In Vox they believe that there is already little margin to steal votes from the

and that the electorate that has remained in the PP will not change the ballot due to corruption.

And they have insisted that "there is no interest" in "starring in" the motion and that they reach out to the other political forces.

Be that as it may, the criticisms of the PP leaders against this motion have been very clear.

The party's general secretary, Teodoro García Egea, has told Vox not to count on

votes

in his "motion of no-confidence post-vacation to save soldier Sánchez."

"Do not count on us for diversionary maneuvers that reinforce the PSOE."

The Galician deputy and Interior spokesperson in Congress,

, exclaimed: "Vox always at the service of the PSOE!"

"The

are a serious and responsible party, Spain is going through one of its worst health and economic times, we will continue to defend proposals by and for the Spanish," he added.

In any case, the national spokesman of the PP, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, assured last Monday that the party "has not made a decision regarding the direction of the vote", but all the leaders consulted by this newspaper favor the no.

Anger spreads with Santiago Abascal for giving such a "gift" to the Government and promoting a closing of the ranks of the majority of the investiture, at a time when the General State Budgets for 2021 are beginning to be negotiated and the Executive needs more than never support, because it is a law that would give the Government up to three more years of life, completing the legislature.

The national spokesman for Vox,

, has attacked the attitude of the PP, personalizing his criticism in García Egea: «He believes that there is opposition by saying yes to the Government and that whoever opposes and raises an alternative seems to be the one who supports to the government".

"Sustaining the Government" is done by the one who supports the extensions of the state of alarm, he added, to confront it with its "joint, social, total and patriotic alternative" to the Government of Sánchez and Iglesias.

An impossible sum

No seats

.

The motion of censure raised by Vox has no chance of succeeding.

Not even the best case would come close to the 176 votes needed.

If the PP, Cs, UPN and

, forces to which it appeals, supported it, they would not add more than 153 votes.

Government block

.

What the government calls the 'investiture block' is more than enough to defeat Vox.

The left, nationalist and regionalist parties add 197 seats, including forces that do not support the Government but neither the motion, such as the CC or the CUP.

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