• Congress Vox's motion of censure against Pedro Sánchez fails with only 53 votes in favor against 201 against and 91 abstentions
  • Tamames motion closes the debate accusing the PSOE of returning to "the two Spains, worse than those of 36"

'Objective accomplished'; "Everything has gone better than expected"; "Very good, very good"; "Very happy"... The socialist ministers did not hide their satisfaction in Congress after the failed motion of censure promoted by Vox and embodied by Ramón Tamames. In La Moncloa they believe that this milestone leaves a "good mood" to the PSOE at a time that was being complicated by the scale of food prices, international economic uncertainty and the Mediator case that has exploded in the socialist ranks.

In the team of Pedro Sánchez they know that the news or the political effects "are amortized at 12 hours" due to the frenetic political news in which Spain lives, but this week they have found an oxygen cylinder and an escape route in the motion of censure. The analysis they make in La Moncloa is that what has been experienced in the last hours can serve to mobilize the voter of the left, less plugged in than the right, as reflected in the polls. "Look at what we have in front of us," say government sources in reference to the alternative of the PP and Vox. "It has to mobilize, be a kick to mobilize the left."

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The motion, a disaster that ended in a comeback

  • Writing: FEDERICO JIMÉNEZ LOSANTOS

The motion, a disaster that ended in a comeback

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United, out of scrambled

  • Writing: JAVIER REDONDO Madrid

United, out of scrambled

The perception they have in La Moncloa is that although the scope and consequences of the failed motion of censure have yet to be defined, but they consider that both the Government and the PSOE "came out stronger" and consider that their candidates "suit them" the strategy and staging of the Government. "These debates are good for us," reflect government sources. "We have strengthened the action of the Executive, we feel comfortable with the work done."

In the team of the President of the Government they shelled and studied thoroughly the hearings of the motion of censure, also as a dynamic element. They value the audience achieved by Pedro Sánchez – "There was follow-up especially in the morning" – and the more than 5.5 million viewers who saw live some moment of the motion in La 1 and Canal 24 Horas. Their diagnosis is that they have had an important window of exposure to shell the approved measures. "Measures such as pensions or the minimum wage are of interest to people, it is verified that they have a recognition of citizenship. Talking about the action of the Government is good for the Government and for the people, "they say in the Executive.

Clash with Podemos

The "good mood", however, is determined by the clash in which the coalition lives. The ministers of Podemos Ione Belarra and Irene Montero demand the PSOE that now "it is time to move from words to deeds", in reference to making progress to approve the Housing Law and the Family Law, two purple claims, and "release the hand of the PP" in the reform of the law of only yes is yes, which has caused the most serious crisis within the Executive in the entire legislature.

These pressures do not please the socialist sector of the government. There is discomfort with the insistence of the two ministers of Podemos in prolonging the clash, the tension. "The facts are the decrees and laws that we have approved," say sources of the Executive, who remember that they have managed to move forward with more than 200 initiatives in Congress so far this legislature. "It is only a discrepancy, one!", complain from the socialist sector of the Government, where they believe that the agreements and approved measures should prevail and be deployed and not so much the "noise" and disagreements. A line shared by Yolanda Díaz and members of the Unidas Podemos space as the commons -the purple Catalan sector-.

In La Moncloa they remember that "on Tuesday and yesterday the Government was speaking" from the rostrum, in reference to the interventions of Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz from the rostrum, since the vice president, in a premeditated and coordinated way, was granted an important exhibition, a "strategic and synchronization exercise". "The Government spoke and the Government is proud of its actions and measures," they settle in La Moncloa, trying to make it clear that the authorized voices are those that spoke from the rostrum.

Because what La Moncloa wanted was to take advantage of the focus of the failed motion of censure to, on the one hand, shell what they have done and what they want to do, and, on the other, put all the burden on the PP, which wants to tie Vox to in that desire to mobilize the left-wing voter to draw the scenario that would expect with a PP-Vox government. Prolonging clashes in the coalition distorts that scenario.

"Feijóo has been wrong not to be there because he legitimizes the far right. It has not been known to distance itself," is the analysis that starts from the presidential complex. "It disappoints." The strategy of La Moncloa was, with respect for Ramón Tamames, to focus the message on the PP and Vox. "We have exposed what we have done and we have confronted it against nothing, which is what the PP project is."

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  • Motion of censure
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  • PP
  • PSOE
  • Pedro Sanchez
  • Yolanda Diaz
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