The Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, faces a vote of no confidence

USPA NEWS - The Congress of Deputies of the Spanish Parliament lived its strangest session on Tuesday with the debate on a motion of no confidence against the Government of the Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, presented by the far-right Vox party and defended on his behalf by a historic communist, the economist, professor and politician Ramón Tamames, 92 years old. The motion will be voted on this Wednesday and everything indicates that it will be defeated, especially due to the abstention of the main opposition party, the conservative Popular Party, whose leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, did not attend the first day of the debate.

It was the second motion of no confidence against the Socialist Prime Minister and his Government presented by the far-right Vox party. The previous one was rejected, as will this one if the forecasts are met. The Prime Minister himself, Pedro Sánchez, was ironic about this fact, encouraging the far-right party to present a third motion of no confidence against his Government. But, beyond the dialectical hand in hand between the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, and Prime Minister Sánchez, the true protagonist of the day, to which everyone referred, was the conservative Popular Party. The main opposition party announced days ago that it will abstain from voting, which was criticized by the proponent Vox, who invited him to change his vote and support the motion of no confidence to end "the Government of rottenness." The Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, "is an expired product," said the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal.

In his speech, Abascal assured that censorship of the Government is necessary and accused the Prime Minister of deceiving the Spaniards and leading the country to ruin with laws that benefit the independentistas and the heirs of the terrorist organization ETA, which remove the street rapists and abusers, and ruin Spain. To put an end to this, the Vox leader asked the conservative Popular Party to support the motion of no confidence to offer Spaniards a "solid, sensible legislative, economic growth, institutional strength and respected sovereignty in the interior and the outside of Spain.”

"You criminalize all men and treat all men as potential rapists," said the Vox leader, referring to the Government's feminist laws. "We are going to fight so that man is respected in the law and in the institutions," he announced, and for this they intend to repeal the "nonsensical laws" that have "destroyed true equality." Faced with this assessment, the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, accused Vox in his response of "insulting those who are different," such as homosexuals, women "and everyone who is different." In his opinion, the Vox program only provides "brutality against those who cannot defend themselves."

Sánchez described Vox as "the glutamate of the right," whose program only contributes "hate, agitation in the streets, insults in Parliament and sterile motions of censure." He affirmed that Vox "longs for a homophobic country" whose project is the parental pin, without minimum wage, without equality and with only one family model. And regarding the abstention of the conservative Popular Party, Pedro Sánchez said that it is "indecent" and reproached him for not voting against as the previous conservative leader, Pablo Casado, did in 2020 in the first motion of no confidence presented by Vox.

Defend the country

After the face-to-face between Pedro Sánchez and Santiago Abascal, it was the turn of the historic communist leader Ramón Tamames. The veteran economist, historian, professor and politician, who recently confessed his ideological evolution towards more conservative positions, began his defense of the motion of censure considering "an obligation to defend the common and indivisible homeland." He did not spare criticism of the Government, of which he said that “it does not respect the division of powers. They have taken control of the Justice and that is typical of a Frankenstein Government because there are a lot of parties that only want to govern.”

In his opinion, the problems that Spain is facing are “corruption, the strike by the Justice, the legal support of the squatters and the obstacles to renewables,” among others. He accused the Government of having a "true dislike for big business" and criticized the "lack of quality of education" that is reflected in all the rankings. He stated that Gibraltar is "a colony in the 21st century that cannot be allowed" and appealed to the parties represented in Parliament to correct errors. “You have to look for the truth and what is useful so as not to return to errors. The Historical Memory was a step backwards and the Democratic Memory is even more so," he said. “A radical change is necessary." However, he avoided asking for an advance of the elections.

Finally, he criticized the changes in the crimes of sedition and embezzlement "to benefit some friends of the house." That, he said to him, "with all the respect I have for it, it should have provoked a motion for dissolution of the Parliament because that has not been done in Poland or in Hungary," he affirmed. "Lifting the Penal Code based on the needs of a single person and their desire for power has not existed anywhere in Europe lately," he pointed out.