The majority of parliamentary groups in the Chamber have decided that Congress suspend the control session this Wednesday. The Plenary Session had begun with a minute of silence for the dozens of fatalities from the storm in Valencia and Albacete and the first vice president, María Jesús Montero, asked the opposition to avoid the “riffrafe” on a day like today. But soon the question time has become the dialectical battle of each week and the PP spokesperson has then requested the suspension.
The Chamber will continue with the debate starting at 11:00 to validate the decree with the renewal of Spanish Radio Television, in response to complaints from the PP in the Board of Spokespersons, which has demanded the total suspension of this Wednesday’s session.
“As a matter of order, I believe that a debate of this type is not appropriate today in this plenary session and the ideal would be for the Board to meet and we all jointly decide to suspend this session out of respect for the victims of DANA that affects three autonomous communities. . I think that would be reasonable. Take a break, gather the Board and send a clear message today. Let’s suspend the plenary session so that the government can go to work and collaborate with the rest of the administrations that are facing this crisis,” Tellado told President Armengol.
Next, the PSOE spokesperson, Patxi López, took the floor and supported Tellado’s proposal. “We agree that we can reflect on the fact that this is not the time for political confrontation in the tone in which we are having it. Therefore, we can talk about suspending full control of this session,” he said.
During the questions to the Government, the PP had lowered the tone of its criticism in Cuca Gamarra’s turn with María Jesús Montero, who had explicitly demanded that the opposition avoid any confrontation today as a sign of respect for the victims. But things were different in the questions to Yolanda Díaz.
The PP deputy, Esther Muñoz, raised the tone against the vice president due to the Íñigo Errejón case. “I would like not to have to ask him if he knew about and covered up the Errejón case and then promoted it.” Yolanda Díaz also entered fully into the war with the popular bench after that question. “The government of Spain does not protect corruption today, tomorrow, or ever. We are not like you. It would be convenient for you to take measures in the face of an issue as serious as corruption.”
The PP deputy then returned to the fray, leaving any attempt at the initial restraint shown out of respect for the victims buried. “They caught him hiding,” Muñoz insisted. “He labeled the complaint as an alleged victim, the presumption is always on the accused, not on the victim. On a day like today, tell the truth.” And Yolanda Díaz attacked with a history of the corruption of the popular ones.
“The corruption of the PP has cost the Spanish people more than 60,000 million euros. “Their corruption has closed hospital beds, has made our children’s schools precarious, has cut public services and has caused enormous pain.”
Just at that moment, Miguel Tellado proposed the suspension. At that time the groups had a long debate in the Board of Spokespersons since the PP wanted to cancel the entire session. As a first measure, Armengol has decided to cancel the control of the Government, since it has the power to do so, and the progressive majority of the Board of Spokespersons has decided to hold the second debate, which addresses the renewal of RTVE. Regarding the commissions that were planned, parliamentary sources explain that the decision to maintain them will fall to the presidents of the corresponding tables.
In parallel, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, will chair at twelve noon the Crisis Committee to monitor the effects of DANA, which will meet at the Moncloa Complex. As announced by the Secretary of State for Communication in a public note, this meeting will be attended by the first vice president and Minister of Finance; the second vice president and minister of Labor and Social Economy; the third vice president and minister for Ecological Transformation and the Demographic Challenge; the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts; the Minister of the Interior; the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, and the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory.
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