The role of Ramón Tamames, independent candidate for the presidency of the Government in the motion of no confidence, has been secondary in the first course of the parliamentary debate, in which the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, as presenter of the initiative and opening act, and The President of the Government, as a man to beat, have starred in the exchanges in which accusations of “hate” and of spreading lies have been exchanged.
If Abascal has pointed out that Sánchez has caused “ruin”, “he has trampled on rights and freedoms” and, above all, “he has wallowed in hatred” and “in the systematic destruction of the reconciliation that other generations of Spain had achieved”, In his opinion, “perhaps the greatest irresponsibility” of the Government, the head of the central Executive has refuted the “strategy of criminalization and hatred” that he attributes to the extreme right of Vox.
For Abascal, the government “hates biology, the family, common sense and testosterone” and, as he has pointed out, it does so because on the left “masculinity is something toxic.”
“In the streets, agitation. In the stands, anger and insults. In Parliament, two sterile motions of no confidence. And, everywhere, hate”, replied the President of the Government.
For the rest, the script of the motion has given the forecasts as good. Vox has targeted the PP and the Government of PSOE and Unidas Podemos in equal parts while the head of the central Executive included in the same bag with his interventions the popular of Alberto Núñez Feijóo and the extreme right.
Thus, Abascal has turned the motion, which should serve to change the Government, into a censure of all the groups in the Congress of Deputies, except his own. The PP has been reproached for, in his opinion, getting dangerously close to the socialists to the point of believing that it can become a good social democratic party. Faced with an “expired” president, Pedro Sánchez”, and a “self-proclaimed opposition” that increasingly resembles the PSOE, Abascal has established himself as the only alternative to the current president of the Government to recover “the authentic values ??that should govern Spain”. .
The President of the Government has refuted Abascal’s speech in his first direct reply to the ultra-right leader in the debate on a motion of no confidence that he has branded as “destructive, bizarre and delusional” at all times linking Abascal’s ultra-right with the PP, before an absent Feijóo. “The PP is as responsible as Vox for the immense damage that this delusional motion of censure does to Spanish democracy.” Not “absolutely opposing” this far-right initiative, as Pablo Casado did in his day, is in the opinion of Moncloa a “great irresponsibility” on the part of the current leader of the main opposition party.
Sánchez has warned that the “indecent abstention” of the PP before this second motion of censure promoted by Vox in this legislature “is a deferred payment”, which has hinted that it will end up costing Feijóo dearly. “Be careful: this business is one of those that leave a stain,” he has alerted the PP bench. “The ultra-right will come to demand the second deferred payment to settle the debt,” he has predicted.
“No matter how much they try to separate, they are like two peas in a pod to the PP,” Sánchez warned the Vox bench. The only difference, he has assured, is that Vox adds “a plus of brutality” in his speech. “Vox is the glutamate of the right, a simple extreme and radical flavor enhancer”, stressed the President of the Government.
Sánchez has insisted that the speech that Abascal has used to defend the motion of no confidence only “feeds his ultra parishioner.” But he has lamented that he also “drags the PP”, fearful, in his opinion, of being considered “the cowardly right”. The head of the Executive has thus highlighted that both the PP and Vox agree to demand an immediate advance of the general elections to liquidate this legislature. But he has stressed that “it is not to give the citizens a voice, but to interrupt the action of this legitimate government.” In this sense, Sánchez has argued that the ultra-right is not promoting this motion of censure against him for the unity of Spain, to save the Constitution, to recover the economy or fight corruption. “What motivates them is to stop by any means the policies of the progressive coalition government,” he has settled.
