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The

motion of no confidence

that Vox will register in

Congress

next Monday, proposing Professor Ramón Tamames as president of an alternative government to that of Pedro Sánchez, is seen in the socialist ranks as an opportunity not only to revalidate their position in La Moncloa but also and, above all, to try to show that the right is unequivocal, that PP and Vox go hand in hand and that after the next general elections not supporting the PSOE will mean opting for an ultra coalition.

With these guides, socialism is preparing to turn the debate on the motion into a boomerang against the

popular

and its leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.

Neither Pedro Sánchez nor the PSOE have anything to lose in the process.

The motion will not prosper because no formation in the Chamber, other than Vox, will give it its affirmative vote.

The coalition government is not at risk.

With this safety net, the Executive and the parliamentary group are already preparing to get the maximum political benefit from the initiative and this implies using it to try to undermine the electoral expectations, currently favorable, of the Popular Party.

The organizational factors play in his favor: the date of holding the debate is in the hands of the president of the Congress,

Meritxell Batet

, who will accommodate it, as happened in the previous motion against Sánchez -also presented by Vox- to the political convenience of the president of the government.

The sources consulted in the PSOE are inclined to bring it closer to the municipal and regional elections, probably in April.

The participation or not of Sánchez also depends on them and, for the moment, they are in favor of the President of the Government taking the podium.

Failing to do so would lower the profile of the debate and give rivals the opportunity to accuse him of cowardice, they argue.

On the contrary, agreeing to reply to Tamames would serve to take heart from the measures implemented by the Government, make an exhaustive comparison with the management of the

popular

during the financial crisis and warn that the economic and rights cuts would be the nerve center of a hypothetical Executive of the PP and Vox.

In reality, it is not so much a question of confronting the candidate of the motion as of shifting the focus of the debate towards the PP and its leader, even though he cannot speak.

The Socialists are already talking about the "right-wing" motion and the "Vox and PP model", thus anticipating their intention to put Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Santiago Abascal and their respective political projects in the same bag.

The face to face with Tamames does not worry them;

His objective transcends the mere response given to the professor.

confront models

The Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, the guaranteed architect of the strategy that the president will finally follow, assures that the motion will be "a great opportunity" to confront and "distinguish two models": that of the Government and that of the right and ultra-right.

To feed this interpretation, they already point out the purpose of the PP to abstain in the final vote.

The

popular ones

for their part, remember that in the motion presented by

Pablo Iglesias

against

Mariano Rajoy

, the position adopted by the Socialists was precisely that, abstention.

Feijóo believes that finally everything will be substantiated in a "minor debate" because the motion has no chance of prospering.

He is committed to "returning to serious politics and putting aside the parliamentary show."

Meanwhile, Bolaños and the spokesman for the PSOE in Congress,

Patxi López

, are already anticipating the channels through which the government intervention will take place.

And they are not new.

It is about insisting, as the second explains, on "the Government that raises pensions and the minimum wage, approves the minimum vital income, the euthanasia law, the abortion law, the one that increases the budget for scholarships and dependency... », in short, «the one who defends and expands rights», and to show that this is the Executive that «the right wants to change».

López assumes that in the debate "the hidden plans of the right and the extreme right" will be seen.

And he ventures that the motion was probably "prepared together."

He points out as evidence the lunch that Tamames organized at the end of January with a group of academics and which Feijóo attended and a meeting between him and Abascal at the end of September that López describes as "secret".

He insists that with the debate "the hidden plan that PP and Vox are preparing will finally be known."

And he adds: "We already know what happens when they govern together", referring to the coalition government between the two formations in Castilla y León.

The supposed "plan" of the two parties, "does not have", according to López, "Tamames at the head, but Feijóo."

THE GROUPS RATE THE INITIATIVE: "SCREASY" "USELESS", "JOKE", "RANCIA"

Vox's initiative has no chance of being approved.

The groups of the Chamber will be divided between voting against and abstaining.

He will only achieve the support of the 52 deputies of Santiago Abascal.

Practically all the parliamentary formations have already described this motion of censure with pejorative adjectives, emphasizing its uselessness.

The president of the United Podemos parliamentary group,

Jaume Asens

, calls the initiative motion "gross destined for failure" and shows surprise that Tamames, a man who comes from the

PCE

, is willing to lead it.

His partner

From him Juantxo López de Uralde

has branded her as "rancid".

The EH Bildu spokesperson,

Mertxe Aizpurúa

, spoke of a "bad joke" while pointing out that it is something that "does not make sense".

"Waste two days on a motion that won't go," she insisted.

She in her opinion is "an unnecessary exercise."

For his part, the ERC spokesman,

Gabriel Rufián

, considers it “nonsense” and believes that the only objective of Vox, the “extreme right”, is to “make noise”.

Ciudadanos also believes that the motion is "as useless as are the policies that Vox proposes."

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