• Direct. Last minute on the coronavirus

  • Congress.Pedro Sánchez announces a new line of aid of 11,000 million for SMEs, companies and the self-employed and Casado demands 50,000

After 10 days in which he has thrown balls out, Pablo Casado has recognized this Wednesday that his bet to break with Vox has penalized him in the Catalan elections.

The president of the PP has admitted that this decision has had a "short-term cost", that is, in the Catalan polls, but it has been claimed as a "center" way to get out of the current crisis.

In the Plenary of Congress, within the debate on the operation of the state of alarm, Casado has added that not only does he not regret his turn, but that he will continue to strengthen it, despite the Catalan electoral bump.

"I took a step forward and I will not take any back."

For the leader of the opposition, the "conquest" of an "open, moderate and reformist society" cannot be preserved "without reaffirming himself in the face of every setback."

"I reaffirm myself especially today because I do not want another path or destination for Spain. I am not looking for any vote that does not seek to coexist," he stressed in the crucial passage of his speech, in a clear reference to the fact that he does not regret his criticism of Vox and reaffirms in them.

Casado has demanded that Sánchez together seek to "widen the space of moderation" to "make it so big that we can both win within it", against "nationalism and populism."

"I already did my part" and the PSOE does just the opposite, it has made the president of the Government ugly: "If the political center is compressed by the extremes, in that troubled river only the radicals win," he said, in another reference Vox and the pro-independence parties.

"Stop making waves" in that river, he has metaphorized.

Despite the

clear

surprise

of Vox in the first electoral appointment after the motion of censure presented by Santiago Abascal, Casado remains "convinced that Spain needs a centrist, pro-European, humanist and liberal project", things that Vox does not represent.

So the PP president believes that his party "will soon be in the majority to overcome the economic recession" and the social crisis in the country.

In another vein, Casado, who has assured that he is proposing an "amendment to the whole" to Sánchez, has focused on the management of the health crisis: "I hope that the Prosecutor's Office will allow investigating the dozens of demands and complaints from health professionals and families of victims, and not to block a parliamentary inquiry commission when the pandemic ends. "

"Protagonists and victims of the motion"

As soon as he heard Casado, it was Santiago Abascal's turn, who responded to the PP leader with a veiled threat to present a new motion of censure against Sánchez, which would once again place the popular in a very uncomfortable situation for forcing themselves to position themselves as new on the continuity of the Government.

More if possible after Vox has interpreted the electoral result in Catalonia, in which it consumed the surprise of PP and Ciudadanos, as an endorsement of that initiative and its opposition without nuances against the Government.

"Perhaps we should offer this House the possibility of a second motion of censure so that some deputies can redeem themselves from their gigantic irresponsibility towards the Spanish," he said, referring to the PP.

Abascal had previously commented that he would present it "as many times as necessary," but he had never made it that way in Congress.

The Vox leader took advantage of his claim to the motion of censure in October to charge against the PP because "some ill-advised wanted to become protagonists and victims of that motion."

"And they have achieved it," he added, connecting the electoral result in Catalonia of PP and Vox with that strong clash that occurred between the two parties.

Abascal boasted that then he warned of the consequences of the continuity of the Government.

"You all knew that we were right, but for different interests and none of them patriotic, you preferred the continuity of this Government of ruin, death, the curtailment of liberties and violence, rather than supporting a motion that promised to give the floor back to the Spanish "with elections, he recriminated the PP.

On the other hand, Abascal also referred to the presumable agreement of the popular with the PSOE to renew the CGPJ to attack Casado because "agreeing with Pedro Sánchez" is not "something different" to "agreeing with Pablo Iglesias." What a disservice you are doing, Mr. Casado, to your party, to Spain and to you, "he reproached him.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more

  • Vox

  • PP

  • Pedro Sanchez

  • Catalonia

  • Santiago Abascal Conde

  • Pablo Casado

  • General Council of the Judiciary

CataloniaIlla and the independence movement call for mobilization to resolve the battle to three for the Generalitat

Catalonia elections 2021Moncloa fears that a high abstention today will prevent Salvador Illa's victory

Catalonia ElectionsHistorical emergence of Vox in Parliament with 11 seats, more than PP and Citizens together

See links of interest

  • Work calendar

  • Lazio - FC Bayern München

  • Atlético - Chelsea, live