The PSOE calls Feijóo's abstention before Vox "unheard of": "Throw the stone and hide your hand"

“It seems unheard of to me,” warned Minister María Jesús Montero, in her role as deputy secretary general of the PSOE, before the announced abstention of the Popular Party in the motion of censure promoted by the extreme right of Vox with the candidacy of Ramón Tamames. “Once again, the PP throws the stone and hides its hand,” she denounced. “Feijóo ended up overtaking Casado on the right, and look how difficult it was,” lamented Montero. And she recalled that in the previous motion of no confidence promoted by Santiago Abascal, in October 2020, the then leader of the main opposition party, Pablo Casado, voted against. “At least Casado had the dignity to vote no,” stressed the minister.

Alberto Núñez Feijóo, on the other hand, is situated in “equidistance” before the new motion of censure against Pedro Sánchez registered by Vox. The number two of the PSOE has highlighted that in Europe the right establishes “a sanitary cordon” to isolate the ultra-right. But that, in Spain, the PP will not prevent with its vote a hypothetical government presided over by Vox.

“The masks are over, Feijóo blesses the pact but removes himself from the photo,” Montero denounced. It already happened, he has pointed out, with the last demonstration of the right and the ultra-right in Madrid, or with the alliance of the PP and Vox in the autonomous executive of Castilla y León. “Democracy needs brave leaders,” warned the minister, who criticized the fact that Feijóo is not even going to go to Congress when the new motion of no confidence against Sánchez is debated. The leader of the PP, in his opinion, will choose to “hide” in his office in Genoa.

Montero has insisted that the PSOE will take this motion of censure “very seriously”, in which Sánchez will confront his political project with “that of the right and the extreme right, or that of the extreme right and the right, because it is so much, ride so much.” In his opinion, Vox’s motion of no confidence will combine “noise, nostalgia and tension.” And he has rejected the possible claim of the alternative candidate, Ramón Tamames, to set a date for an electoral advance. “A motion of no confidence is not the instrument to call elections,” Montero warned, before which he recalled that it is an exclusive prerogative of the President of the Government.

But the deputy secretary general of the PSOE has also demanded that Podemos and some of the members of the investiture block, such as ERC or EH Bildu, not ignore or ridicule this motion of no confidence. “Respecting our constitutional framework means taking a vote of no confidence seriously,” she warned. Doing the opposite, Montero has pointed out, is “playing the game of anti-politics.”