The last meeting of the permanent deputation of Congress approved yesterday the extension of the package of anti-inflation measures of the coalition government to alleviate the effects of the invasion of Ukraine, including some other decisions such as palliative measures for those affected by the La Palma volcano or the Establishment of the right to be forgotten oncology. He did so, albeit with a new parliament about to be formed, with a large majority and no votes against. The PP supported the government measures and only Vox and Ciudadanos abstained.
The symbolic value of the fact that the last vote of the XIV Legislature did not register votes against is almost sarcasm, considering that the high legislative productivity of these four years has been registered under an incessant attitude of opposition opposition. But yesterday nobody voted against the extension until December 31 of the VAT reduction on basic foods, nor the discount on public transport.
In any case, and despite the intensity of the recently concluded electoral campaign, yesterday it was all smiles and good words in the Constitutional Chamber of the Congress complex, on a day in which many of the deputies said goodbye, who will not repeat in the legislature that starts in August.
The president of Ciudadanos, despite including her daily criticism of President Pedro Sánchez, was even applauded by the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños – who had highlighted that the decree mobilizes 3,800 million euros – when he stressed that “representing the Spanish has been the greatest honor of my life.” Then came the epithets against Sánchez for his determination to “perpetuate himself” and for his policy of alliances: “We thought we could get rid of Frankenstein but it seems that Frankenstein is going to return this time with a wig,” said Arrimadas, alluding to the fact that, in addition to the partners of the last legislature, the PSOE needs at least the abstention of Junts to be sworn in as president.
The spokesman for the confederal group of United We Can, Pablo Echenique, who announced that he will immediately request his reinstatement as a researcher at the Higher Council for Scientific Research, also expressed his pride for the work carried out in the chamber and for the legislative progress achieved. -he alluded to all of them and praised Minister Irene Montero for the new feminist legislative agenda-, although he also left messages for the partners of his political space united in Sumar. Echenique stressed his satisfaction for having said “truths that no one dares to say” in the chamber. He said he was proud for “having made a lot of noise”, an allusion to the insistence of Vice President Yolanda Díaz to avoid noise and controversy, considering that distances citizens from politics. Echenique, on the other hand, believes that “in the face of the extreme center discourse, noise is the only way for those of us below to be heard and to be able to achieve rights.” Echenique also announced to the press that Podemos, that is, its five deputies integrated into Sumar, “will exercise its political autonomy” in Congress, as, he stressed, the rest of the political formations integrated into Sumar and that have obtained representation in the chamber will do. . “Autonomous parties such as Més, Chunta or Compromís are going to exercise their political autonomy and so is Podemos,” said Echenique, who claimed that Podemos continues to be “an indispensable political project” and the only one that can guarantee that “profound transformations” take place. in Spanish politics. “No political force can be asked not to exercise its political autonomy,” insisted the former secretary of organization of the purple.
The general secretary herself, Ione Belarra, has been exercising that political autonomy since Monday, after the meeting of the Podemos executive, when she released a video in which she blamed the Sumar leadership for leaving “700,000 votes” in the general elections for “renounce feminism and make Podemos invisible”. The purples have five seats, the same as the IU and the commons, while Sumar, thanks to his decision to introduce prominent civil society personalities who are not members of the integrated forces, has ten minutes. Más País and Compromís have two seats each, and Més and Chunta, each with one deputy, complete Sumar’s 31 parliamentarians.
In any case, from the direction of Sumar, they continue with the open dialogue with the PSOE to shape the objectives and structure of a coalition government, as well as with the necessary political forces to achieve the investiture of Sánchez, particularly the Catalan pro-independence formations.