• Interview Ramón Tamames: "If I don't lead Vox's motion, I may regret it all my life"

  • Profile Ramón Tamames: from a PCE militant to a reputable receptive economist to be a candidate for Vox's vote of no confidence

Ramón Tamames removes the daisy from Vox's motion of no confidence.

Standing as a candidate for Prime Minister at

89 years

of age ?

Initially, yes.

It is what the body asks of him, his natural desire.

But it hasn't been decided yet.

That's what this prestigious economist says on the other end of the phone.

The decision is postponed one day: from Tuesday it passes to Wednesday.

That day Tamames will meet with Santiago Abascal in Madrid But he is much closer to yes, right?

"Near or far" are relative things, says Tamames.

And, above all, "it is already known that this is a mess", in reference to the political agendas and the buzz generated by the possibility that he is the standard bearer of the Vox motion.

The key to intuit that Tamames is close to accepting the offer was given on Saturday in an interview with

EL MUNDO

.

"If he rejects it, is he in danger of regretting it forever?" was the question.

"That is the point. That this only happens once in a lifetime and if you reject it you may have a good chance of regretting it for the rest of your life for not having taken the opportunity to express your point of view at a critical moment in which some want to leave of the country, others want to break Spain and others want to break the Constitution," replied the former leader of the

PCE

.

Vox plans to register the motion as soon as the candidate is confirmed, but refuses to reveal whether it will be Tamames.

At a press conference, the party's spokesman,

Jorge Buxadé

, assured that he is a person "perfectly qualified to analyze the situation in Spain", but he did not want to go any further.

While Vox and Tamames temporize, the PP rubs its hands, because they believe that the economist's candidacy would be a mistake.

"How does Vox have to be to present Tamames. The cowardly right cannot present its own candidates," sources from Genoa pointed out this Monday.

"It produces a lot of tenderness," they added.

The PP campaign spokesman,

Borja Sémper

, has regretted that Vox makes him go through "this drink".

"We respect Professor Tamames and we will respect his decision, which surely seeks to help our country, which is what we also want from the PP", point out the internal arguments of the 'popular', "but this motion of censure to whom it interests is to the PSOE".

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