Where will Tamames sit? Vox will ask Batet to sit next to the stands due to his mobility problems

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Although Vox has not yet registered the

, something that it will officially do on Monday, the party has been studying many of the issues surrounding this initiative for days.

One of them has to do with taking maximum care of the physical conditions of the proposed candidate, Ramón Tamames, who at

will have to face the marathon parliamentary debate that awaits him.

For this reason, and given the mobility problems that he suffers when walking, the party led by Santiago Abascal plans to ask the president of Congress,

, to allow him to sit at the Chamber Table, in the secretaries' area, to have quick and easy access to the speaker's rostrum.

The objective of this approach is to prevent Tamames from having to make many trips from the seat assigned to him to the tribune, given the mobility problems he has and that force him to walk with the support of a cane.

In addition, it happens that the economist would have to go up a few steps to speak, then go down them when finished and, later, go up others to access his site to listen to the answers.

That as many times as he intervenes, up to three times per parliamentary group if they want to make use of the reply and rejoinder.

From the environment of the candidate proposed by Vox, it is emphasized that Tamames's head is very lucid, and that is why he agrees to lead the motion of censure, but that it is a reality that he has physical problems in his legs for which "it is difficult for him to » climb the steps.

That is why the idea of ​​asking Batet to make it easier for him to sit next to the speakers' gallery, in the area of ​​the Congress Table that is reserved for secretaries, has arisen.

From there he is only a few steps away and, therefore, the physical effort that he would carry is noticeably lower.

The problem with this request, which has not yet been formulated because not even the motion of censure is registered, is that the Table is an exclusive space for the governing body of the Chamber and the lawyers, and that it is not a space for free use.

It would be an unusual situation.

Well, the spokesmen in these parliamentary debates always sit in their seats.

Even when they do not have the status of deputies, as was the case with Pedro Sánchez when he led the 2018 initiative that removed Mariano

.

grandstand without accessibility

The speaker's rostrum is currently not accessible to people with severe mobility issues or disabilities.

In fact, this has been an issue that has come to light in this legislature due to the request made by Pablo Echenique, spokesman for Unidas Podemos, to reform the facilities so that he can go up in his wheelchair to speak or sit in the seats along with the rest of the deputies.

His letter to Batet was also signed by the president of the

(CERMI),

, who denounced that the lack of accessibility in Congress violates the law.

From the Tamames environment, it is trusted that Batet can make an exception and authorize him to sit nearby.

However, the parliamentary sources consulted are skeptical of this possibility, although it is something that will be studied when the time comes.

If it does not prosper, what could happen is that Tamames would have to sit in the seat next to Abascal.

For the rest, the parliamentary sources consulted avoid speculating on a possible date for the motion of censure.

The first thing is that it is presented and from there it will be seen how the times run.

Batet has all the capacity to maneuver and decide without a maximum term.

The normal thing is that he adapts to the government and that he also probes the president's agenda.

Socialist ranks welcome the fact that the motion is delayed for several weeks and that it can even be carried to April, to bring it as close as possible to the

.

It will be Batet who says if he delays it for so long or if, as is more likely, he opens a gap for him in March.

there are precedents

The last motion also presented by Vox was made to wait 21 days.

That of Pablo Iglesias took 25. On the other hand, it can also be accelerated, as the PP did with that of Sánchez, which was in a week.

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