Marisa Cruz Madrid
Madrid
Updated Tuesday, March 12, 2024-17:10
Upper House The Senate approves the investigative commission on the 'Koldo case' with a vote in favor of all parties
Corruption Koldo to the commander of the Civil Guard detained: "You are ours"
Tense atmosphere in the
Senate
in Pedro Sánchez's first appearance in a control session since last May.
The Popular Party, through its spokesperson in the Upper House,
Alicia García
, has asked him for explanations about his change of position regarding the amnesty and about the implications of his Government and the PSOE in the
Koldo case
, but the president far from responding. He has clung to "
Aznar
's big lie " on 11-M to get out of the trance with an attack maneuver against the popular ones.
The PP representative had accused him of wanting to "control everything, attacking the Constitution and with a Government based on lies and corruption."
"You," he snapped, "cheap embezzlement, grant carte blanche to the independentists and cover up their political corruption with your economic corruption. The amnesty is the worst of all corruptions because you sell the nation for seven votes. You have failed the Spaniards. Explain to us what political stability you can offer to citizens in this mass of scandals."
The President of the Government has responded by ensuring that his Executive managed to overcome a pandemic and ensure that Spain "moved forward."
From there he has assured that so far in this term he has consolidated the political project that he launched in the last term and then, in a very brief allusion to the amnesty law, he has stressed that the
Venice Commission
has given it endorsement .
"And all of this," he stressed, "against the PP" which, in his opinion, has no project for Catalonia.
"You cannot sip and blow at the same time," he said, recalling Feijóo's words before a group of journalists in relation to the measure of grace and assuming that the popular people would have accepted it if it had not been because Vox prevented them. .
"We are not going to talk about an economic miracle because we already know where it ends: in jail," he concluded defiantly before assuring that his Government has only just begun "its third term."
The
popular
representative has responded by calling him a "humiliated president" at the expense of the independence movement and assuming that Sánchez will have to appear in the Senate to explain all this because his party will request his appearance in the investigative commission on the
Koldo case
.
"You are synonymous with chaos and misgovernment, you are a puppet of a fugitive from justice and you will go down in history as the president who whitewashed the heirs of ETA, who put rapists and pedophiles on the streets, as the president of the amnesty and like the man who knew everything and covered everything," García concluded.
In the midst of protests, Sánchez has used a mocking tone belittling the intervention of the PP senator and has chosen to resort, in the midst of the anger, to the statement that Aznar published yesterday defending his management in the face of the 11-M massacre, the " big lie" he said "about the political project of the popular people".
Pedro Sánchez, later, used the white glove with the ERC senator,
Sara Bailac
, who demanded "unique financing" for Catalonia so that this community recovers "everything the State owes it" at the same time as "moving forward." towards independence".
The president has agreed with the Esquerra representative, pointing to the PP, which he has blamed for approving tax reductions for the richest in the autonomous communities in which he governs, a reduction that according to him negatively affects the amount of resources that the State must be distributed within the framework of regional financing.
"We are also going to win that battle," Sánchez assured, "at the regional level and at the general level."
However, the president has shaken off, at least for now, the Republicans' demand to approve "singular financing" for Catalonia that, in the absence of specificity, brings to mind the fiscal pact that
Artur Mas
a.
Mariano Rajoy
and that, in the face of his refusal, he encouraged the independence supporters to embark on the path of the
process
.
Sánchez has insisted that his plan involves approving a new regional financing system with multilateral negotiation