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The Popular Party is the indirect protagonist of the motion of censure. Neither presents nor receives it, but it is on everyone's lips: Santiago Abascal addressed yesterday on numerous occasions to the right-wing bench, as did Pedro Sánchez or Yolanda Díaz during their interventions, despite the fact that the focus of the parliamentary session falls these days on Vox and Ramón Tamames. The popular ones are seen "in the center of the battle". A fact that proves two things, in the eyes of the formation: the "weakness" of the rest of the parties and the "centrality" of those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who has neither gone to the Congress of Deputies nor pronounced yesterday about the initiative.

Cuca Gamarra will act similarly today when, as spokesman for the main opposition party, he takes the floor on the last day of the parliamentary debate. The PP has so far kept a low profile on Vox's strategy and will continue to be so, although it will take advantage of its intervention to attack the Executive of Pedro Sánchez and his partners, which is to whom a censorship proposal of which the PP shares the objective, but not the forms, is really directed.

He will do so ignoring Vox, a party from which he expects his self-combustion due to the erratic procedure with which he has designed the motion, and bordering Tamames, who will barely limit himself to recognizing his political career and his career as an economist. Thus, the PP will not contribute to a political anger that, as they understand in the formation, clouds parliamentarism, harms the institutional quality of our country and wears out everyone who participates in it.

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"You can have tough debates without getting into this show. This is not serious politics", they reflect in Genoa, from where Vox is seen "desperate" for its "wrong" strategy that has demonstrated the vulnerability of the party and has given wings to the rest of the formations – especially the PSOE and the project of Yolanda Díaz, Sumar – to expose without time limit their programmatic proposals on the verge of a decisive electoral campaign. An unprecedented opportunity that allowed the political formations that participated yesterday to carry out a debate in an organic and not parliamentary key.

"Bonfire of the Vanities"

Today's comment by Gamarra, who yesterday already called the parliamentary debate requested by Vox a "bonfire of the vanities", will be the first of the day, with which a session that on its first day was relatively fluid will be resumed, because the candidate chose not to respond to any parliamentary spokesman, beyond the president of the Government. He will focus his speech fully on Sánchez and will respond to the constant accusations made by the president, but he will not value Vox's roadmap in the hemicycle, he will avoid the melee with Santiago Abascal and he will not charge against Ramón Tamames.

After Gamarra, only the intervention of the Socialists will remain. Despite the last claim of Abascal in the introduction to Tamames, in the PP do not consider under any circumstances to vote in favor of the motion. "Sánchez would like us to vote with Abascal, and Abascal would like us to vote with Sánchez," they clarify to justify their abstention in a debate that, the popular believe, has put aside the concerns of Spaniards and the future of the country to focus only on the electoral struggles between acronyms, candidates and parties of all signs.

"What we see is that this motion is serving for Pedro Sánchez to survive, Yolanda Díaz looks and Vox appears," Gamarra lamented yesterday after hearing the start of a motion of censure that in the popular ranks qualify as sterile. A dynamic of which the PP does not seek to be an accomplice, but an alternative. "It will be the Spaniards at the polls who will be able to censure Sánchez as soon as they have the opportunity to do so," Gamarra explained.

"Vox and the Government have dedicated their speeches to attacking the PP because it is what unites them," said Gamarra. Sources of the leadership of the party assume that having been constantly in the focus of the debate, without having participated, being proponents or censored, or having a turn to speak so far speaks more of the rest than of the PP itself. "That both talk about Feijóo is proof of his weakness and that we are in the center", They settle these sources.

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