The president of Congress, Meritxell Batet, will inform the chief executive, Pedro Sánchez, that the debate on the motion of censure that Vox raised with Ramón Tamames as candidate for the presidency of the Government will be set for March 21 to 23.
Parliamentary sources confirmed to Servimedia this date advanced this Monday by El País for the celebration of the second motion that Vox presents against Sánchez this legislature.
Formally, the date is decided by Batet, so the president of the Cortes plans to communicate this Monday, according to this newspaper, to Sánchez and Tamames the days chosen for the debate on this constitutional instrument that allows, in case of obtaining sufficient parliamentary support, change the president of the Government.
Although La Moncloa has not made it clear that Sánchez will defend his management in the parliamentary debate, sources from his environment and from the PSOE leadership assured 99% that the president would be the one who would take advantage of this moment to present his balance of the legislature in the context electoral present for the appointment with the polls on May 28.
From La Moncloa and the PSOE they assured that they took this debate “seriously” despite the fact that the motion does not seem to prosper and other parties had encouraged to reduce the process of the debate to a minimum so that it could develop quickly.
The dates chosen by Batet coincide with one of the few margins left by the international agenda of the president, embarked on the preparation of the presidency of the EU that Spain assumes in June and that takes him that week of March 20 on a tour of Benelux which concludes with the celebration on the 24th of the European Council in Brussels.