The PP seems to be the protagonist of the motion of censure that Congress will begin to debate tomorrow, since both Vox and the PSOE point to it every time they talk about Santiago Abascal’s initiative. However, the motion is directed against a government in which the PP is not, and Pedro Sánchez has to defend himself and his government not against the president of the PP, but against the far-right party. These approaches, both from Vox and from the PSOE, do not worry Alberto Núñez Feijóo, they assure the popular leadership, but rather, on the contrary, demonstrate, in their opinion, two things: that the PP is the only alternative, and the weakness of the Government , who “has to resort to attacks on Feijóo” to survive.
But as much as the speeches of Vox and PSOE go against the PP, Feijóo is not going to change his approach one iota, which involves rejecting the motion, considering that the only one who benefits is Sánchez, but not participating in an act that for the popular leadership it will mean “a ball of oxygen” for the President of the Government.
The president of the PP, who does not have a seat in Congress, will not go to the Lower House, although he could. Not to speak, but to attend. His number two, Cuca Gamarra, will do it as parliamentary spokesperson, who has already pointed out where his speech will go, “to show that there is another way of doing politics.” That the PP does not agree with the “trenches” policy that characterizes Vox, nor with the “block” policy in which Pedro Sánchez’s PSOE is installed.
At a press conference in Bilbao, the general secretary of the PP stressed that “there are plenty of reasons to censure Sánchez” but the “only motion” that can make Pedro Sánchez not be president will not be the one that will be debated tomorrow, but “that of the polls, and it will not take place this week, but on 28-M”, as a stage prior to the general elections next December. “It will be the citizens who censor him,” she stressed. Hence the warning to those who would like to see Pedro Sánchez outside La Moncloa and may not understand why the PP will abstain. When the polls are held, they must be clear, he said, that “every vote that does not go to the PP will be a vote in support of Pedro Sánchez, who will shield him in La Moncloa,” Gamarra warned.
In addition, the number two of the PP reproached Vox for using a constitutional instrument such as the motion of no confidence, “not for the purpose established by the Constitution”, such as the change of Government, but for another reason, “to carry out a marketing campaign “, “to carry out electoralism”, and to carry out “a campaign of personal promotion”, he did not say who, if Santiago Abascal, Ramón Tamames, who is the candidate, or both, but in any case the one who criticized was the president from Vox, which has presented the motion as an instrument of “political propaganda”.
For this reason, Cuca Gamarra, as Alberto Núñez Feijóo has said on several occasions, pointed out that “we are not going to participate in this political show, out of institutional respect.” The PP, he said, will dedicate itself to promoting the call for elections “because for the PP there is no other motion than that of the polls” and it is working now, not to have a few moments of glory in the debate tomorrow and the day after, but to ” Win the election”.
Cuca Gamarra will dedicate himself, then, during the debate, to demonstrating that “there is another way of doing politics”, doing it “from moderation” and not giving him, with a vote in favor that Sánchez will have on Wednesday, “a balloon of oxygen, at a time when it is in discount time”. The spokeswoman for the Popular Group defended herself against the accusations of ambiguity made by the Executive and Vox, and did so with the argument that “if neither Vox nor Sánchez like abstention, it is that” we must go well “.
The number two of the PP explained that abstention is the demonstration that “we have our own criteria” and to tell both Abascal’s party and the PSOE that “nobody is going to tell us what we have to think or where we have to go. No Vox is going to do it, but neither is the PSOE, with its criticisms that try to place it on the side of Vox, to try to save Sánchez, the PP underlined. A Sánchez, said Cuca Gamarra “whom even the barons are going to say that they don’t know him”, as is beginning to happen. The popular spokesperson refers to the absence of barons at the federal committee meeting on Saturday, which, in her opinion, “will mark the end of Sánchez, because Sánchez is toxic even for socialism” and not a motion like the one raised by Vox.
