After a tense meeting, the Congress Board this Tuesday admitted to processing the parliamentary investigation commission promoted by the PSOE after the outbreak of the Koldo case, although its approval is pending in the Plenary Session that the Lower House will hold next week. .
What is “surprising” and “unprecedented”, according to sources from the aforementioned body, is that in order to overcome this first parliamentary procedure, the members of the Popular Party who are part of this governing body have chosen at this morning’s meeting to be “absent” from the vote -although de facto they remained present-. A decision without precedent that they argued about the need not to participate knowing that the president of Congress, Francina Armengol, was going to do so supporting her.
This was confirmed by the spokesperson for the Popular Party in the Congress of Deputies, Miguel Tellado, in a press conference in the Lower House, where he explained that his party asked Armengol “to refrain from voting.” Something that members of the Board point out would go against the House regulations.
The main opposition party believes that the president of Congress should abstain from voting “on an investigative commission that should finally investigate her as one of the parties to the plot.” “It is not reasonable to put the fox to take care of the chickens,” Tellado added.
It was the first secretary of Congress and deputy of Sumar, Gerardo Pisarello, who after listening to Tellado charged against the PP’s position. “He came to do a very strange thing, for which there is almost no precedent. And being there, they wanted to count as if they had not voted, as if they had not been present,” he explained before describing his position as “a pirouette.” strange”.
Sources present at the Congress Board acknowledged that this meeting of the Board was the “roughest” so far in the legislature. In this sense, they explained that, while in the Board of Spokespersons the tone is higher, the Board tends to distance itself more from the anger of the Plenary.
Likewise, the Government coalition interpreted the PP’s position as a way of opposing the commission of inquiry into contracts for the supply of medical supplies during the pandemic without expressly recording their vote against.
