New test for Sánchez in Congress: members decide whether to force him to appear.

MadridThe political year begins in Congress as the previous session ended in July: with an examination of Pedro Sánchez's partners. The PP has registered up to nine requests for urgent appearances—they should be this week—from the Spanish president himself and several ministers. These requests will only be approved if one of the investiture partners breaks with the majority and votes alongside the PP and Vox. Some have already warned that they will reject all of them because the Spanish government has committed to having the ministers responsible for the fire crisis present. who will appear in the Senate this week They will also do so in Congress in the coming weeks, but the question remains as to what Junts will do. In this regard, the PSOE has announced that the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, and the Third Vice President and Minister for the Ecological Transition, Sara Aagesen, will appear on September 4 and 5, respectively, in a committee in Congress.

"Four ministers are appearing this week in the Senate. Are they taking it as a joke?" complained the parliamentary spokesperson for the PSOE, Patxi López, in statements prior to Tuesday's session of the permanent deputation, referring to the string of requests from the party led by Alberto Nú. It is common practice for the political year after the summer to start with an avalanche of requests for ministers to appear from the opposition, but this time, the PP especially wants to demonstrate all the open files the executive has. He requests that Sánchez appear for corruption; the Minister of Justice, Félix Bolaños, for the prosecution of the State Attorney General; the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, for the debt forgiveness of the autonomous communities; several ministers for the fires; and the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, for the constant chaos in the railway service.

While waiting to find out whether any of the proposals will ultimately be approved, the PSOE and Sumar wanted to focus the debate on the issue of the fires and protested that the PP regional presidents do not plan to give explanations in parliament. "The PP has the powers, but it doesn't exercise them. The main measure is a list of arsonists with a bracelet to detect them. It's better to leave the occurrences for another time and assume the responsibilities that each one has," criticized the socialist Patxi López. Sumar spokesperson Verónica Martínez denounced the need for a "registry of climate deniers" and accused the PP of "passing the buck" and "sowing institutional distrust."