The PP returns to the Casadist discourse in Congress

It was as if time had frozen in the hemicycle several months ago and there Pablo Casado and his men continued to enumerate the countless betrayals that, according to them, the Government inflicts on Spain.

With a somewhat less coarse language, yes, the PP returned to where it used to, this Wednesday in the control session in Congress: the complaint that the Executive is handed over to the "coup leaders", maintains dark dealings with the fugitive Carles Puigdemont and consents that the laws "be made at the ERC headquarters", in the words of its spokesperson, Cuca Gamarra.

Opposite, the Government responded with the same admonitions that it threw one day and another on Casado for his refusal to renew the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ).

A permanent

returns to the parliamentary discussion.

That PP that only wanted to talk about the economy and the daily problems of the Spanish, a brand that Alberto Núñez Feijóo printed on his parliamentary group, has suddenly disappeared.

The popular ones are barely brandishing their recipe to cut taxes, seeing how things have ended in the United Kingdom with what was intended to be the conservatives' magical plan for fiscal balances.

And as the dialogue with the Government has broken down over time, the Popular Party has thunderously embraced the most classic of its classic themes, somewhat abandoned until now with Feijóo: Catalonia and Pedro Sánchez's pacts.

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It had been a long time since Puigdemont's name had been heard so much in Congress.

One after another, the popular ones were brandishing it before the Government based on a statement by the fled ex-

in which he assured that an emissary of the Executive had offered him an agreement for his return to Spain.

Gamarra raised the matter with Sánchez, with a rhetorical trick that Casado was already using to awaken reminiscences of old PSOE scandals.

The popular spokeswoman asked the President of the Government who is that "Mr. X" who supposedly went to Waterloo.

The matter continued to fester before the ministers, whatever the matter at hand.

"Has it been you?", asked the popular Carlos Rojas to the first vice president, Nadia Calviño, who did not even notice.

She then went to the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, and finally to the Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría.

The change of third of the PP was guessed very soon.

The question recorded by Gamarra seemed to have an economic orientation: "Do you think your policies create opportunities for Spaniards?"

The popular spokeswoman rushed through the economy before getting into her real subject: not to mention the CGPJ and attacking the government for its intention to reduce the penalties for the crime of sedition, which would soften some judicial processes still open against independence leaders.

The PP spokeswoman made a joint package to hit Sánchez and at the same time defend the leader of her party after the criticism received for the rupture of the judicial pact: “Mr. Feijóo has principles, words and conscience.

You are not".

The loop over the Judiciary has been handled so much in Congress that, despite the dialectical lunges and Feijóo's sudden slam on Sánchez, the climate was not particularly tense.

In the popular seats there was even less noise and hubbub than usual.

And the president did not exhibit the most combative version of himself either.

He limited himself to admonishing the popular ones, who the day before had defined him as a "bad Spaniard."

“You go around distributing Spanish identity cards, while you have spent four years without paying attention to your obligation to comply with the Constitution,” he reprimanded Gamarra for his umpteenth refusal to renew the expired CGPJ.

Later, the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, was more hurtful, who, when faced with a question from Vox, took the opportunity to put this party and the PP in the same category of “anti-system right”.

The Vox deputy Ignacio Gil Lázaro was determined to demonstrate that the Government is going to agree on a referendum with the independentistas, no matter how much Bolaños insisted that any agreement with the Government will be made "within the Constitution."

Outside of the PP attacks, the control session served for some allies of the Executive to make demands on Sánchez.

The PNV spokesman, Aitor Esteban, showed his party's concern about the execution of European funds.

"Something is not being done right," Esteban complained.

"The Ministry of Economy is not agile enough."

And he finished off with a claim: "Put your batteries on."

The president limited himself to recalling that Spain is the only country that has already received the second remittance of funds, without entering into controversies with the nationalist spokesman.

Sánchez used the same tactic against the EH Bildu spokeswoman.

Mertxe Aizpurua conveyed to him the discomfort of the groups to the left of the PSOE - including their government partners from United We Can - due to the differences that prevent projects such as the housing law or the repeal of the

“The time has come to decide whether or not you want to approve them as she promised.

It has a sufficient majority”, stated Aizpurua.

The president pulled the script that he usually puts into practice in the face of uncomfortable claims from groups in his parliamentary base: neither a bad word nor a specific commitment.

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