Pablo R. Roces Madrid

Madrid

Updated Friday, February 9, 2024-00:04

  • Politics An irregular vote by Vox in the Madrid Assembly unleashes the war between the PP and Rocío Monasterio

The irregular vote that the Vox spokesperson, Rocío Monasterio, cast from the seat of an absent deputy on February 1 is on track to cost her a sanction from the Madrid Assembly. That is the path towards which all events point, from the decisions that the Chamber Table will address starting today to the harshness that the Popular Party, with the absolute majority of the Chamber, has shown in recent days.

Because the governing body of the autonomous Parliament, according to several sources consulted, is currently inclined to

initiate "a process with the maximum guarantees" to sanction the Vox spokesperson

through the Statute Commission for not including the Regulation in a case. as unusual as a deputy voting from the empty seat of another absentee. "It is an unprecedented situation," acknowledge sources close to the Presidency of the Chamber, who estimate that the resolution of the case will take "several weeks" since a deputy must now be appointed to oversee the investigation, collect reports, wait for the process of allegations and finally issue a verdict.

This verdict

leads to a financial fine, the suspension of the Monastery

- right now the most probable option, according to various sources familiar with the process, the proposed time being 15 days or a month - or even both. In fact, yesterday, the president of the Community of Madrid herself, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, whose party has an absolute majority in the autonomous Chamber, already appeared in favor of this sanction. "If you go on a road where you have to drive at 80, they catch you at 140, whether it's called Monasterio or Vox, you will understand that you will have to be fined," said the popular leader during the Government control session.

«

What has not been seen in life in this Chamber,

at least when I am a deputy, is that another deputy who is absent is voted for

. Something basic and that she still blames us, the president of the Chamber, the technical means as she always does," remarked the regional president, recalling that Monasterio already resorted to technical errors as a reason for late presenting the amendments to the Budgets for the year 2023 - a version denied by the Chamber's own technicians - to which they would end up voting against, preventing their processing.

"

Ayuso is more focused on expelling Rocío Monasterio del Pleno than on expelling the menas from the Community of Madrid

," the Vox leader replied afterwards, in statements to the media, reiterating the version of the "technical failure" as causing a favorable vote to be cast from the seat of former deputy José Luis Ruiz Bartolomé to an amendment to the entirety presented by Más Madrid against the Circular Economy Law, which was denied with the votes of the PP. However, sources from the Assembly assure that, despite not obtaining a benefit from it, this movement represents "an attempt to alter the majorities of the Chamber, the result of the polls on May 28."

Furthermore, the event occurs at a time when relations between the PP and Vox at the regional level are completely broken, with hardly any dialogue between the groups, and with continuous clashes in the last plenary sessions. In fact, yesterday, apart from this case, another confrontation occurred again when Monasterio accused Ayuso of

dedicating 27 million euros to "propaganda" and "buying media"

with public money, specifically pointing out to Cadena Ser and

El País

- whom he referred to as "Lo País."

"They are paid media that do not have the freedom to talk about what they want, that is their propaganda," remarked the Vox spokesperson, pointing directly to the press. From the popular bench, the regional president responded that the Community's institutional advertising "is dedicated to very normal campaigns, to nothing ideological." "

To say that the media is bought says a lot about her party

," she added.

«He has had a very unfortunate week and every time he is told that he is making a mistake he comes up with the victimist discourse that we are all against Vox and we are all progressives. The world is a great progressive world but it does not save them from making big mistakes where we will not be able to help them," Ayuso concluded, referring again to the irregular vote.