The Congress of Deputies has certified this Wednesday the irremediable failure of the motion of censure that the extreme right of Vox has promoted, with the instrumental candidacy of the veteran Ramón Tamames, to try to bring down, despite having no option of achieving it, the president of the Government. The result, quite the contrary, is that this initiative, in which Alberto Núñez Feijóo has wanted to be calculatedly out of the picture, has acted as a glue for the coalition Executive between the PSOE and United We Can. This has been the underlying strategy deployed by Pedro Sánchez in this motion, along with Vice President Yolanda Díaz, to present both as the only alternative to an eventual government coalition between the Popular Party and the extreme right of Vox. The Executive has warned that it will emerge stronger from this onslaught, to face the new electoral cycle.
The vote of the motion of censure has been resolved, in a public vote and by appeal of all the deputies of Congress, with 53 affirmative votes – only those of Vox and the former deputy of Ciudadanos Pablo Cambronero -, 91 abstentions and 201 negative votes. The president of the Lower House, Meritxell Batet, has thus proclaimed the rejection of the initiative and has adjourned the session.
In the intervention with which he closed the debate on this motion of censure, Pedro Sánchez thanked the majority of Congress for rejecting a “outlandish attempt to stop our country dead and overthrow a legitimate government, be it from the yes or from abstention ”, he pointed out, alluding to Vox and the PP. The head of the Executive has once again highlighted the absence of Alberto Núñez Feijóo in this plenary session, in addition to the abstention of the PP in censorship. “Feijóo is silent because he knows that he needs Vox to be able to govern,” he denounced. “But no one can put themselves in profile or be equidistant, one cannot be indifferent to a constitutional fraud like the one we have experienced with this scorched earth motion,” he warned.
Sánchez, in any case, has concluded that he is coming out stronger from this attack from the right. “The reformist project for social advances is strong, with more desire than ever to continue advancing,” he assured.
The second and final session of the debate on the motion of no confidence began this morning with the intervention of the spokesperson for the Popular Party, Cuca Gamarra, who justified the abstention of her group “out of respect” for the candidate presented by Vox, Ramón Tamames. In the absence of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, Gamarra has regretted this “idle motion” promoted by the extreme right. “An inexplicable gift to the Government, which will be able to exhibit a unit that it does not have,” she warned. And he has assured that no matter how much Sánchez proclaimed Vice President Yolanda Díaz the day before as his “white mark” at the head of United We Can, the president of the Government “is reaching the end of his unfortunate adventure.” Not in this failed vote of no confidence, but in the next general election.
Quite the contrary, the spokesman for the PSOE in Congress, Patxi López, then highlighted that Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz, in their replies the day before, “ran over Ramón Tamames like a steamroller.” He has even thanked the veteran candidate that this motion “has served to demonstrate the strength and enormous future path that this Government has.” “We need this government to last a long time, as it undoubtedly will,” Patxi López predicted. And he has warned that the “real motion of censure” has once again been that of Vox against the PP, which in his opinion has already been irretrievably “linked” to the extreme right. “They are the same, they defend the same and their future is the same,” he has predicted.
