The fact that the government, with its president Pedro Sánchez at its head, does not like to appear in the Senate, where the Popular Party (PP) has an absolute majority, escapes no one. But what will happen next Tuesday, in session … of control in the Executive of the Upper House, has few precedents, none in this legislature. Neither Sánchez nor thirteen other members of his cabinet will participate in this plenary session.
At a time like this, when the government is embroiled in several sex and corruption scandals, it seems logical that members of the ministerial cabinet should give the appropriate explanations to Parliament. However, nothing could be further from the truth. The majority decided to make “pellas”.
Faced with this decision, the spokesperson for the PP in the Senate, Alicia García, assures that “in the worst moment of government“When he was most cornered by scandals, he decided to face them by withdrawing and refusing to show his face.” “This generalized rout shows that faced with the direct decomposition of the Government, the ministers do not show their faces and are in the strategy of every man for himself,” he adds.
The most common excuse for not going to the Senate is the Carolina Foundation board meeting. It is exercised by the first vice-president María Jesús Montero, directly concerned by the corruption plot of the “former PSOE plumber” Leire Díez and the former president of SEPI Vicente Fernández; the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares; the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun; the Minister of Economy, Carlos Body; that of Education, Pilar Alegría, questioned by the “Salazar case”, and the Minister of Science, Diana Morant. The heads of Labor, Ecological Transition, Defense, Transport, Territorial Policy and Equality will also not be present, which should also say something about the sexual scandals within the Socialist Party.
For Alicia García, the excuses are “as incredible as the pilgrims” and taking into account the reiteration of massive absences at the control sessions in the Senate, the PP is studying “legal and judicial actions so that the Government respects Parliament”, a fundamental principle of democracy. “The absence of Budgets, the colonization of institutions, the lack of transparency, corruption as a procedural system and, now also, the systematic escape from Parliament to be controlled by the opposition, make this Government what is the furthest from what a full-fledged democracy should be”, denounces the popular spokesperson of the Senate.
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