Feijóo-Abascal meeting in Congress: the Vox leader pushes for a motion of no confidence
The PP president has ruled out the instrument for the moment due to the lack of support.
MadridThe leaders of the Spanish right and far right, Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Santiago Abascal, met this Wednesday in Congress after months without contact. It was an informal conversation that the People's Party (PP) framed as the end of the session in the Spanish Parliament before the summer break, during which they "discussed the national and international political context." "The meeting was cordial and respectful, taking into account the disagreement between different parties," reported sources from Génova. Vox confirmed the terms of the meeting and pointed out that Abascal raises the same issue in public as in private, that is, that he put the motion of censure on the table.
Since the Cerdán case broke two weeks ago, Vox has been pressuring the PP with this parliamentary instrument, which Feijóo has ruled out for the time being. Sánchez himself has challenged Feijóo to present it, knowing that he does not have the guaranteed support for its success. He is missing four votes, which he would need to obtain from either Junts or the PNV. For the moment, Carles Puigdemont's party has distanced itself from this equation, although this Wednesday, MP Josep Pagès already imagined a hypothetical scenario with the PP and Vox in the Moncloa Palace. "Some people preach that the PP and Vox will come hand in hand with Junts, but if they end up coming, it will be because of the corruption of the PSOE and the panic of the left that we're already seeing in the chamber," he stated during the control session in Congress.
However, Feijóo has placed the blame for this motion of censure not becoming a reality on Sánchez's partners. In recent days, he has accused them of being "complicit in the corruption" that surrounds the PSOE, and this Wednesday, the PP focused on the second vice president of the Spanish government, Yolanda Díaz. "Why do they continue in a corrupt government that traffics in prostitutes? Are they disintegrating and, as Gabriel Rufián [ERC spokesperson in Madrid] says, we should take advantage of what's left?" Elías Bendodo (PP) retorted to the Sumar leader. "I am a very ethical person. I don't steal. Our ministers don't steal," Díaz defended herself, thus distancing herself from the allegedly illegal practices that were taking place in ministries led by the PSOE, mainly in the Ministry of Transport.
The meeting between Feijóo and Abascal has served the PSOE to once again criticize the PP leader for his dependence on the far right. In recent weeks, several autonomous communities with conservative presidents have approved budgets with the help of Vox in exchange for some concessions regarding the rollback of social and linguistic rights, as in the Valencian Community, the Balearic Islands, and Murcia. "Abascal has probably given him homework for the [PP] congress," Socialist sources point out, referring to the conclave where the conservatives will discuss their ideology. From The Hague, where Pedro Sánchez participated in the NATO summit, the Spanish president reiterated that he will run in the next Spanish elections, which will be in 2027. Asked about the UCO's entry into Ferraz, he recalled that when the UDEF did so at the PP headquarters on Calle Génova, they were "called a "majora" (a street in the center of the city).
