• Politics Yolanda Díaz will intervene in the motion of censure to also reply to Vox and defend the management of the Government

The motion of Vox that from this Tuesday is debated in Congress – the sixth of democracy and the fifth that will be failed – provides an opportunity for the two big parties, PSOE and PP, to censure each other. The first as support of the Government and the second as head of the opposition, and both gripped by their present and future alliances. The third in contention will be Vox, signatory of the initiative, which now, after the leak of the speech of its candidate, Ramón Tamames, puts the focus on the intervention of its leader Santiago Abascal, determined to squeeze without time limit all the ideology that his party offers to the Spaniards facing popular and socialists. To the former, for their cowardice in abstaining on the motion and to the latter for defending an "autocrat" president.

The final vote has already been decided: the attempt to overthrow the Executive with a phantom alternative and without a program, personified in Professor Ramón Tamames, will not prosper. The real motion will be settled in the streets and the sentence will be dictated by the ballot boxes.

Pedro Sánchez, with the coda of Yolanda Díaz, will present the result of the vote as an endorsement of his management and Alberto Núñez Feijóo, although he will not be able to intervene, will emphasize through the mouth of his number two, Cuca Gamarra, that the oxygen balloon that the Government believes he will win is momentary.

The president will use his unlimited time to feed the message of fear of a PP that he will draw delivered to the most extreme impulses that Vox encourages and, in contrast, will present his coalition government as an engine of economic and social progress for a working class that stands up to the "rich" and the "powerful".

Sánchez faces the debate with the tranquility that comes from knowing that in no case will the motion prosper but offers him the opportunity to highlight the most brilliant aspects of his management, even having the wind of the pandemic, the inflationary crisis and the war in Ukraine in front of him; remember all the occasions in which the PP voted against its "social shield" and the "advances in rights" and, in addition, warn of the new reactionary wave of "cuts and setbacks" that, in his opinion, will drown the Spaniards if they allow the arrival in the Government of a PP willing to agree with Vox.

It is, as the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, emphasizes, to "compare models": that of the "progressive coalition" and that of "the right and the extreme right".

The secretary general and spokesperson of the popular in Congress will combine the reproach to Vox, for the spurious use of a constitutional instrument such as the motion of censure to launch a "marketing campaign", with the harsh criticism of a president of the Government who "survives armored by a frankenstein alliance" to which he folds for the personal interest of staying in power.

The PP agrees that Sánchez is worthy of censorship but believes that this should come from the hand of the Spaniards, first on May 28 in the municipal and regional elections and, then, definitively, in the general elections scheduled for December.

The popular are aware that they will be hit from both flanks and intend to turn the criticism that pours them from the pro-government bloc and from Vox as proof that they are attacked because they are the "only possible alternative" and this is confirmed by the polls.

The PP tries to place itself in a kind of central position, away from the "politics of trenches and blocks", in the words of Gamarra, outlining a proposal of "moderation and dialogue". In this sense, they say they are convinced that the rejection provoked, both in the PSOE and in Vox, their decision to abstain in the final vote, comes to demonstrate that they are "on the right track". On this point, they also remember that abstention was precisely the option chosen by the Socialists before the motion of censure raised by Podemos, with Pablo Iglesias as a candidate, against the Government of Mariano Rajoy.

"Portraying Sanchez"

On the part of Vox, the official intention is to "portray Sánchez and his illegitimate government." Uncovering a president who "has made lies the main engine of his strategy" and who no longer "has the confidence of the majority of Spaniards."

As an alternative candidate, mandatory in any motion of censure, Vox presents Ramón Tamames, a man who has gone through all the colors of the political arc but who, at 89 years old, is not attached to any party. His speech, in short, will only represent him no matter how much Vox applauds his defense of the Constitution, unity, the monarchy and the flag and deplores the "autocratic" policy of Sánchez.

The position of Vox will be deployed by Santiago Abascal. He will be the one who opens the debate by exposing without time limit all the arguments of his party. It will be, they explain in the formation, the launch of the program that Vox offers to the Spaniards for the next electoral appointments.

Abascal, if Sánchez goes up to the rostrum to give him a reply, will also take the opportunity to present himself, in the absence of Feijóo, as the leader who holds high the flag of the frontal opposition to the Government. Vox has insistently criticized the PP for having announced its abstention in the final vote. Abascal himself has urged Feijóo to reflect and vote in favor of censure, even though even with the popular seats the motion would not prosper. In Vox they do not rule out making a last attempt today.

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