Pedro Sánchez has made an effort from the first minute of his interventions in Congress to turn the motion of no confidence against him into a great political opportunity to try to visualize what a PP government with Vox would be like, the only real alternative to the current progressive coalition, according to all surveys.
The president wants to force the PP to define itself on this alliance with Vox, which has already been launched in Castilla y León.
That is why he tries to bring Alberto Núñez Feijóo to this delicate stage to confront the position of the PP with other large European conservative parties, especially in France and Germany, which maintain the so-called cordon sanitaire to the extreme right.
Sánchez has severely hit Santiago Abascal, the leader of Vox, his true rival this Tuesday, while Ramón Tamames seemed more like a guest in a war that was not his.
But while he attacked Abascal, the president was actually looking for Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who with all the intention has decided to be absent from the chamber to avoid that image.
"Those who are going to abstain tomorrow are as responsible as you, Mr. Abascal," Sánchez stated from the outset.
Intervention by Pedro Sánchez in the debate on the motion of censure of Vox.Luis Sevillano
The president's thesis is that the PP is getting closer to Vox, from the no to the motion of censure two years ago with Pablo Casado to the abstention now with Feijóo, to finally get to put the ultra-right in the Government if both have a majority to govern.
“Apparently, this delirium today leaves Mr. Feijóo indifferent.
Apparently, this far-right manifesto is neither coming nor going.
With you, the PP is going to do something very typical of the house, a deferred payment", he said to remember the salary that they continued to pay to the treasurer of the PP, Luis Bárcenas, even years after the scandal of the Gürtel case broke out
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“Sooner rather than later, the ultra-right will come to demand that deferred payment from them.
When that time comes, remember this debate”, Sánchez launched into a PP bench without the presence of its leader and visibly uncomfortable with a motion that has quickly turned against them, like the previous one in 2020.
Abascal has also made it very clear that the objective of the motion is to censure Sánchez, but his true rival is the PP, with whom he is fighting for space on the right.
"I regret not being able to address the self-proclaimed leader of the opposition, because to be the leader of the opposition he would have to be here and oppose something from time to time," Abascal has also sentenced with darts for Feijóo.
“Mr. Feijóo, stop offering pacts to the PSOE and answer the question: are you willing to stand up to the extremist legislation of gender laws, of historical memory, of confiscatory waste?
If they don't want to, tell the voters, Spain needs a serious social democratic party, if they want to occupy that space, say so.
You cannot get close to the PSOE and Vox at the same time, it is not serious”, Abascal concluded.
Bleach Vox
The outline of the motion became very clear in the first hours of the debate.
Sánchez launched himself into a whirlwind against Abascal, but he related more respectfully to Tamames, whom he treated as someone who was wrong to defend a motion promoted by the ultra-right.
"I don't think this was the best idea he's had in his life, Mr. Tamames, I'm sorry that he contributed to whitewashing Vox," he told him.
Sánchez, as usual, has taken advantage of the enormous advantage of having unlimited time with a very long reply that has made Tamames himself despair: "he cannot come here with a billet", he snapped before the president, Meritxell Batet, I will take the floor from you”.
The Vox candidate also has unlimited time, but he has decided to hold back more than Sánchez and has greatly reduced the speech that he had prepared,
hence the reproach.
The president has clearly seen that this motion could be an opportunity for his government and he is taking advantage of it to the point of exhaustion.
“You have spoken for an hour and forty minutes, Mr. Sánchez.
At this time Asimov explained the Roman Empire.
You have to change the regulations and set times”, Tamames mocked.
The Second Vice President and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, gives her reply to Tamames.Luis Sevillano Arribas
Santiago Abascal and Ramón Tamames, this Tuesday during the first day of Vox's motion of no confidence. Luis Sevillano
The members of the Government and socialist deputies applaud the speech of Yolanda Díaz.Luis Sevillano
Bildu deputy, Mertxe Aizpurua, during her speech.Luis Sevillano
The spokesperson for Ciudadanos in Congress, Inés Arrimadas, this Tuesday in Congress.
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Yolanda Díaz, Second Vice President of the Government, this Tuesday in the Congress of Deputies.Luis Sevillano
Ramón Tamames, this Tuesday in Congress.
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Ramón Tamames, upon his arrival at the debate on Vox's motion of no confidence against Pedro Sánchez, this Tuesday.Luis Sevillano
Ramón Tamames listens to Sánchez's reply to his speech.
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Ramón Tamames interrupts Pedro Sánchez's speech to make him ugly by going "with a piece of paper".
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The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, reflected in a camera during the debate.
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Ramón Tamames, Vox candidate in the motion of no confidence, gives his speech from the seats of the far-right formation.
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The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, follows from his seat the motion of censure presented by Vox.
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Tamames, during his intervention in the motion of censure.
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Ramón Tamames talks with the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal (right), during the debate on his party's motion of no confidence against the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez. JJ Guillén (EFE)
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, gives the reply to the leader of Vox.
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The members of the Government and the socialist bench applaud the intervention of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, during the debate on the motion of censure presented by Vox. JJ Guillén (EFE)
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, gives the reply to the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal.
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Tamames and Abascal follow the reply of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez (from behind). Luis Sevillano
The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, gives the counter-reply to President Sánchez.chema Moya (EFE)
Ramón Tamames, Vox candidate in the motion of no confidence, and the far-right deputies, Santiago Abascal and Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, follow the intervention of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez. Luis Sevillano
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, gives the reply to the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, during the motion of censure.
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The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, and his candidate in the motion of no confidence, Ramón Tamames, talk during the intervention of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.
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The Vox leader addresses the speaker's rostrum.
In the background, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the First Vice President and Minister of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Nadia Calviño.
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The spokesperson for the Popular Party in Congress, Cuca Gamarra, attends the debate on Vox's motion of no confidence.
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The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, replies to the Vox leader during the motion of no confidence.
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Vox deputies applaud their leader, Santiago Abascal, after his speech.
Next to him, Ramón Tamames consults some notes.
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General view of the Congress of Deputies during the speech of the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal.
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The ministers Ione Belarra and Irene Montero chat during the motion of no confidence presented by Vox.
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Santiago Abascal, leader of Vox, defends the motion of no confidence from the speaker's rostrum.
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The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, follows the intervention of the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal.
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The deputies follow the speech of Santiago Abascal during the motion of censure.
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The writer Sánchez Dragó attends the second Vox motion of no confidence against the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez.
Dragó has been one of the promoters of the alternative candidate in that motion, Ramón Tamames.
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The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, goes up to the speaker's rostrum to defend the motion of no confidence against the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.
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The second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, reaches her seat in the Congress of Deputies.
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The Vox candidate in the motion of no confidence, Ramón Tamames, arrives at the chamber.
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The ministers of Unidas Podemos, Ione Belarra, Irene Montero and Alberto Garzón, at the beginning of the session.
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Ramón Tamames, who leads Vox's motion of no confidence against President Sánchez, greets the Minister of Consumption, Albero Garzón upon his arrival this Tuesday at the Congress of Deputies.JJGuillén (EFE)
The ERC spokesman in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, and the candidate for the vote of no confidence, Ramón Tamames, at the beginning of the session.
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Ramón Tamames, supported by an usher, arrives at the chamber at the beginning of the session where the motion of censure filed by Vox is being debated.Luis Sevillano
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, greets a police officer upon his arrival at the Lower House.Chema Moya (EFE)
The professor and economist Ramón Tamames, who leads Vox's second motion of no confidence, upon his arrival this Tuesday at the Congress of Deputies.
On the right, Santiago Abascal, leader of Vox.Luis Sevillano
The president and Yolanda Díaz have also tried to use the motion to regroup the investiture bloc against the extreme right, something that always unites a lot.
This was clearly seen in unanimous applause, all the deputies and ministers stood up, including those of Podemos, although later Ione Belarra went to the corridors to demand that the PSOE "look to the left" in the laws that are in full negotiation .
The motion was also used by Sánchez and Díaz to try to reactivate progressive voters with the idea that what is being resolved in the next general elections -and also partly now in the regional and municipal elections- is a battle between two blocs, the progressive, who now governs, and the conservative,
Díaz was especially vehement in defending the coalition, in clear contrast to the message launched by Podemos.
He even praised both Sánchez on several occasions for his political battle to obtain European funds and Nadia Calviño herself, with whom he has had tough internal clashes.
And then he did it one by one with almost all the ministers.
Díaz's political message was very clear, both outward and inward: she believes that the best possible campaign for the space to the left of the PSOE that is reconfiguring around Sumar is a closed defense of the coalition and the government's management, Faced with a Podemos that is committed to clashing with the Socialists to differentiate itself and reinforce its own profile.
“ERTE saved 3.6 million workers and 550,000 companies.
They supported one in two freelancers.
In the previous crisis, 550,000 self-employed workers fell.
This is what made us different.
With the PP it took us 10 years to get out of the previous crisis.
We rule humbly better.
Calviño is right with his rigor.
We have a record of exports.
We are at the forefront of the execution of European funds.
I want to vindicate the role of Sánchez in that negotiation.
The PP with the public debt saved the banks, the progressive government saves the workers”, concluded Díaz, who also received enthusiastic applause from the Socialists.
The vice president claimed the management of Podemos ministers such as Ione Belarra and Irene Montero, in a clear effort to close ranks in the coalition in full internal tension.
The motion has been used in this way by Sánchez and Díaz to defend the Government's management.
“The true cause of the motion of no confidence is to destroy the protection policies for the middle class that we have made.
We are going to contrast in this motion the country project of this Government with the absolute nothingness that you and your abstention partner are proposing", Sánchez cried while Abascal accused him of "glowing in hatred" and "stealing the legacy of harmony". which Spain enjoyed.
And there came another key issue of the session: the history of Spain.
While Abascal reproached Sánchez for exhuming the remains of the dictator from the Valley of the Fallen and the president claimed it as an act of honor to the Spanish democratic memory, Tamames entered fully to join the imaginary of the Spanish extreme right, which locates the beginning of the Civil War in 1934.
Pedro Sánchez and Nadia Calviño applaud Yolanda Díaz, after her speech.Luis Sevillano
This issue, which Feijóo always avoids, activated Vox deputies, who enthusiastically applauded Tamames when he said that "the civil war began in 1934, atrocities were committed on both sides, and the republic was not as angelic as it has been made out to be." saying".
Díaz was devastated that someone who was in the PCE, one of the key parties in the constitutional pact, now becomes the Vox candidate.
This approach was what led Sánchez to try to convince Tamames, who was imprisoned in 1956 by Franco and was in hiding at the top of the PCE, that he had made the biggest mistake in a political life full of turns, since communism. to the defense of a motion of the far right: "Mr. Tamames, think about it, those who promote your motion today are the successors of Blas Piñar."
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