Watch the final hour of Congress’s live government oversight session today, the first after the hearing of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the attorney general.
09:28
The PP: “Spain’s foreign image is led by Zapatero”
Is the government defending Spain’s prestige abroad? » asks PP deputy Carlos Rojas, who ended up calling for elections.
The minister defends the good image of Spain, which saved the “dignity” of Europe when withdrawing troops from Afghanistan and recognizing the State of Palestine. Concerning Venezuela, he defends that Edmundo González and Leopoldo López can live free in Madrid and not imprisoned in Venezuela.
Rojas is surprised by this response when, according to him, “the external image of Spain is led by Zapatero.”
09:19
“What will drive you out of Moncloa is the cost of living”
Ruffian, of course: “What worries you most? “There are many things that worry and occupy me, such as housing, public health or Trump’s measures,” responds the president of the government.
The ERC leader calls for a truce in corruption cases to talk about what people care about. “What is the point of a country in which more people than ever are working but cannot earn a living?” He denounces the increase in the basket and the fact that the Government is now making classifications: “People don’t eat with classifications.” For example, ask for a public food distributor. “What will drive you out of Moncloa is the cost of living”
09:16
More immigration and less unemployment
“We welcomed 2 million immigrant workers, but we reduced the unemployment rate by 40%,” defends Sánchez.
Abascal only has time to respond that Moncloa is not where Sánchez lives, but rather where he is taking refuge.
09:13
Abascal and Sánchez disagree on the scale
Abascal calls for balance in the management of government but he summarizes it with the cases which monopolize the executive or immigration. “The question seems long,” responds Sánchez, who estimates that this year is going better than last year, based on economic data.
09:11
The president of the Lugo City Council will be removed from office
Patxi López is asked about the complaints of harassment against the president of the Lugo town hall: “This goes against the principles of the PSOE and they will be excluded from the party,” replies the socialist spokesperson in Congress. Concerning the protection of women, she says that “there is a whole demonstration of what the State Pact is and unfortunately, we have to mourn too many victims of this scourge that is sexist terrorism but I think we must add resources to put an end to it”. Patricia Romero reports
09:09
Sánchez takes refuge in the fact that “harassment at work is a systemic problem”
The president defends that the necessary protocols have been activated while when this happens to the PP in Algeciras, for example, they do “like with Nevenka in Ponferrada”. “This government supports women, and if there is a threat, it is your coalition with Abascal.”
09:07
Sánchez: “We accept mistakes when they are made”
Feijóo questions the government’s credibility and Sánchez responds: “We accept mistakes when they are made.” The PP leader assures that he chose his faithful squires because they are made in his “image and likeness” and although he now distances himself from Ábalos or Salazar, “he is one of them”. “Between the harasser and the harassed, you are with the harasser,” he says.
Laughter among socialist deputies with an error by Feijóo when he says that feminism is not practiced. “Feminism is not preached, it is practiced,” he corrected.
09:04
Minute of silence for the latest victims of gender-based violence
The last person known today is a woman who died in Catarroja three days after being beaten by her partner.
09:03
“No one understands what the PSOE is doing”
“No one understands what the PSOE is doing, what Moncloa is doing with Salazar,” Rufián says of the latest case of allegations of sexual harassment and machismo from the PSOE. In this regard, what surprises him most about Pedro Sánchez’s party is “how useless it is” when it comes to handling this scandal. Patricia Romero reports.
09:00
Rufián calls García Ortiz’s sentence “nonsense”
Rufián (ERC), after reading the sentence addressed to the Attorney General: “I, as a democrat, can only say that an innocent person is condemned.” Patricia Romero reports.
08:57
Vox, against corruption affecting the Executive
The various cases of corruption that afflict the government and the PSOE will also be addressed in the debate that the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, will have with Sánchez, who will invite him to make a “management evaluation”.
And he will also debate this week with the President of the Government, the spokesperson for the ERC, Gabriel Rufián, who will invite him to reveal “what worries him most” at the moment in the legislature where he has lost the support of the Junts and has a majority against in Congress.
08:49
The only plenary session in December
This Wednesday is the only control plenary session of this month of December, it is being held in the middle of the campaign for the Extremadura elections of the 21st and with Ábalos in preventive detention for the case of the alleged bites for the awarding of contracts for the purchase of medical supplies in times of pandemic.
08:48
Feijóo will ask questions about government credibility
The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, will ask this Wednesday the head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, “what is the credibility of his government” and will do so during the first control session of Congress after the entry into prison of the former socialist minister José Luis Ábalos, after the errors assumed by Sánchez himself in the management of the procedure opened in the party for complaints of sexual harassment against the former councilor of the Moncloa Francisco Salazar and a day after the publication of the sentence with which he disqualifies the former Attorney General of the State, Álvaro García Ortiz.
08:47
New control session
Hello, today Congress will experience a new face to face between Sánchez and Feijóo during the government control session, which will be the first after the hearing of the Supreme Court ruling on the Attorney General.
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