Questions and answers. Roadmap to understand and follow Vox's motion of censure against Pedro Sánchez
Congress.The PP assumes that Pablo Casado will contest Santiago Abascal in Vox's motion of censure against Pedro Sánchez
The fifth motion of censure of democracy invokes this Wednesday in Congress a kind of debate on the state of the nation, but with an exchange of roles.
It will be an opposition party, Vox, which will defend that the country's drift is unsustainable, while the Government will argue that if Spain has been plunged into the greatest economic-health crisis of democracy, it is because of how badly the opposition has governed since March.
After that parliamentary fireworks, typical of the escalation of exaltations in recent months, the real battle will be fought: that of Santiago Abascal against the PP, to snatch the hegemonic voice of the Spanish right.
He has a bad hand.
The Vox leader arrives at the stake without a single additional support to the 52 seats of his formation.
A small game has hardly been collected: it has made the PP nervous.
It has made him doubt himself, in public.
Since the motion is an attempt to steal the initiative from Pablo Casado, on paper it is more of a debate about the state of the opposition, with a Vox that arrives hypervitaminated and is in danger of stopping in front of a PP who knows that he is facing one of the queen stages on the way to the long-awaited "recast."
Both the spotlights point towards the opposition leader, who has decided not to take for granted: he has not confirmed what will be the meaning of his vote, he has not confirmed whether he will refute Abascal and he has not confirmed if the reason for which he repeats that This motion does not matter to anyone, it is because of how much it matters to him.
So the opposite message has immediately penetrated public opinion, that of the discomfort of the popular before a parliamentary congregation in which they have much to lose, both to port and starboard.
If the PP abstains, it will be seen as tacitly subordinate to Vox, and if it votes "no", it will anger many of its former voters, with whom it shares the desire to censor Pedro Sánchez.
The vast majority of the leaders of the PP are committed to voting against Vox, marking their own profile and hoisting a "true" alternative of Government.
"Only Casado can relieve Sánchez," they repeat.
Among those who prefer abstention, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo stands out.
The former popular parliamentary spokesperson has even coined a slogan: "No to no."
If he is so clear about it and the motion calls him too, why hasn't Casado revealed his letters yet?
In order not to give "weapons" to Vox, they say in Genoa.
So Abascal arrives a bit blind on the PP's position: although he knows that the party has clearly leaned toward the vote against, he cannot support it as something confirmed by Casado's team.
In this context, the parliamentary spokesman for Vox, Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, has stated that they do not care about the button that their neighbors on the bench press: "A politician from the PP looks more and more like one from the PSOE."
Although the battle for the primacy of the right is the surreptitious argument of the motion, the truth is that Vox has gathered numerous reasons to raise its voice against the Government.
In the first place, Spain is the European country that has weathered the coronavirus pandemic the worst, so far, with 988,322 cases diagnosed by PCR and more than 50,000 deaths, according to independent calculations.
"In a particular way, under the direct responsibility of the communist social government after the declaration of the state of alarm throughout the territory", Spain accumulates records of infected, infected and victims health, reads the text of the motion, which also blames the Executive the rise of the "hunger queues."
But the Vox motion is not just a spell against the management of the pandemic, because it took root before, in January, when Pedro Sánchez's Cabinet was constituted.
The first of the reasons underlying the initiative is a declaration of intent: "It is a legal government but illegitimate to the extent that its formation has taken place through fraud against the Spanish electorate," argues the party.
So Vox denies legitimacy to a president that it wants to throw out through the most legitimizing way that exists, in the absence of an electoral period.
The debate will begin at 9 a.m., with the intervention of the deputy for Barcelona and Vox candidate for the Catalan regional elections, Ignacio Garriga.
He will speak without a time limit, like the candidate Santiago Abascal, who will speak after him.
Any member of the Government may intervene whenever they wish, also without limit.
Sánchez and Vice President Pablo Iglesias want to do it.
The intention of the president of Congress, Meritxell Batet, is to establish a pause when the Vox interventions and the Executive's reply end.
Afterwards, the representatives of the groups will contest Abascal, from least to greatest.
This means that the PP and the PSOE can be relegated to Thursday.
In principle, it will be Casado who intervenes for the popular.
Abascal can answer all parliamentary leaders one by one, and they will have the right to a 10-minute reply.
At the end of the debate - to which only 50% of the deputies can attend - a voting time will be set, both in person and online, for the same Thursday.
The 52 of Vox will vote in situ.
The official purpose of the motion is to call elections.
To defend it, Abascal will affirm, among other things, that Spain has "the worst government at the worst time" and that "the autonomous constitutional architecture has not worked."
But he will base his efforts on the two pillars of burden of liquid times: the focus and the story.
Because this is not a motion to use, but for the use of the proposing group.
"We want the Spanish to get to know us better and learn about Abascal's political capacity."
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