The harshness that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, spared in his reply to Ramón Tamames’s speech as a candidate for Vox’s motion of no confidence was wasted by the investiture partners. PNV, ERC, EH Bildu, and the rest of the minority groups in Congress agreed to reproach the veteran economist who, with his career and his intellectual baggage, has lent himself to play the “showgirl” of the extreme right, in the words of Aitor Esteban.
The spokesperson for the Basque group was especially hard on Tamames, as were the spokesperson for Compromís, Joan Baldoví; the one from Más País, Íñigo Errejón, or the one from ERC, Gabriel Rufián. And they all agreed to regret that he did not realize that “the signatories of his supposed candidacy have used him” to face an exercise in “anti-politics” and “discrediting democracy.”
The jeltzale leader described the motion of censure as “illegitimate”, even though it is legal, and called Tamames a “fickle figure” and a “partisan weather vane”. He also reproached him for his political career since he was the PCE candidate for mayor of Madrid until today, and for speaking without data to point out the “overrepresentation” that in his opinion the nationalist parties have. “It is not academic to affirm without basing it,” the PNV spokesman snapped.
“The day after tomorrow no one will remember you; neither did they, ”she warned him in reference to Vox.
Esteban equated him with the butanero ship with the name of the economist, from the Cepsa company, whose captain claimed to have spotted more than 50 UFOs in the Mediterranean and which ended up scrapped in Mexico. Or when he used a range of colors to synthesize his political career: “The color of the helmet when he began his journey was red, it changed color and ended his days painted black, a smudge black like the black shirts of the Italian fascist friends of who present him here today”, stressed Esteban.
From ERC, Rufián also reproached him for having chosen this political episode to link his career, going from “red” to “facha”: “You have gone from ‘before red that rotates’ to ‘before facha that rotates’, And it’s a shame, because you can grow old like Maruja Torres or you can grow old like you,” the Republican spokesman snapped.
Rufián questioned the political coherence of Tamames based on his career and the ultra curriculum of some of the Vox leaders: “What is anti-Franco, constitutionalist or in the spirit of the transition?” he questioned him.
But he also sent a message to the Government about the “background melody” that conveys this motion of censure. The “abandonment” by the Government that believes that it feels part of the citizenship, and for whom the representatives of Vox “are not fascists”, but “patriots”. After asking Sánchez to give “solutions” to the population “that is disappointing”, he warned him that the Executive “will not make a motion, inflation will.”
The spokesperson for EH Bildu, Metxe Aizpurua, reproached Tamames for his “vanity” to represent “hate speech and the exclusion of what is different” in Congress, a “historical mistake” for having become the defender and spokesperson for the extreme right”.
Joan Baldoví (Compromís) reproached the candidate for having lent himself to the “intellectual indigence” of “the heirs of Blas Piñar”, and Errejón put his finger on the PP’s sore spot, paraphrasing that the Vox deputies “are his crows” and that Therefore, “it is his eyes that are in danger.”
Among the rest of the Catalan groups, Junts used his turn to accuse the PSOE of encouraging the “circus” of the Vox motion to cover up the Pegasus case and silence the visit this week to Spain of the MEPs investigating this matter. While from the PDECat, Ferran Bel redirected the focus towards Vox, for “prostituting politics” using the “constitutional institution” that the motion of censure implies to generate “anxiety and mistrust” in politics.
Teruel Exists, the Canary Islands Coalition and the PRC staged their vote against: “They have forgotten much of Spain”, proclaimed the Cantabrian deputy, José María Mazón. And the BNG deputy Néstor Rego ignored Tamames and branded the Vox project as “Spanish supremacist, racist, sexist and homophobic”.
