Only 13 days will pass between Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s appearance before the ICC’s investigative committee. Koldo case In the Senate and the specialized discussion on “the corruption of his family and his party” that will be held in Congress on Wednesday. If the PP has a more than sufficient majority to form investigative committees on whatever it deems appropriate, and with its numerical capacity in Congress, it can also summon the head of the executive branch. This is what he did and Sanchez did not want to postpone. First, he will report on the recent European summits, and after that, he will begin a harsh and uncomfortable discussion in which he will be accused politically of being the more important party. Number one A conspiracy of corruption and illegal financing of the PSOE, in connection with the investigation by the National Court into the use of cash from the Ferraz Fund for senior officials.
The president will not admit anything, but will defend the honesty of his wife, his brother, his party, and himself. The People’s Party will not tire of declaring its condemnation and demanding that elections be called, and even more so after Güntz closed the door on him, although we will see if the matter is sealed. Sánchez’s trump card against the PP is the same as the one used in the last general election of 2023, after the popular agreements with the Vox party in the various autonomous regions: the alternative government is the right and the far right. Not very original, but an unambiguous fact due to the total majority, according to interlocutors from the government coalition.
It does not suit Alberto Núñez Viejo that the conditions for his party president’s investment in the Valencian Community go beyond the framework of the reconstruction after the Dana disaster of October 29, 2024. To their annoyance, the Vox party presents arguments to the left opposition to declare that the far-right party leads the People’s Party through its desire to impose candidates, but above all, restrictive commitments on immigration and green policies. These negotiations will take place during the next ten days, and if they fail, there will be elections next March. A very bad context for the election campaign in Extremaduran on December 21, after which President Maria Guardiola and the People’s Party of Extremaduran want to get rid of Abascal’s party. The campaign will take place with a very difficult match in Valencia.
This reliance on the Vox Party, which torments the People’s Party, will serve as the government’s central line of counterattack on Wednesday in the plenary session of Congress. Feijóo against Sánchez on corruption charges and hints at what awaits the Spaniards if the right rules. “There is a clearly defined international far-right and we have to respond positively,” Sánchez said on Sunday in an interview with El Pais newspaper, referring to the global situation, which he is discussing with other Latin American and European leaders.
In this interview, he confirms that he will run again in the 2027 elections, which is a declaration of intent in which he responds to the demand of the People’s and Fox parties to call for elections and leave.
The harshness of the expressions that Vigo and Abascal use against him will set the tone, although the government will be very attentive to the expressions of the rest of the groups, especially the Junts, but also the PNV. Basque nationalists still consider that there is room to implement policies and agreements that serve their interest. Another thing would be if they came to believe that it was not worth being there, as they admit in national sources.
The government is not interested in announcing the breakup of Gantz’s party, which became official on Thursday, but it also knows that on some matters, the pro-independence Catalan right will agree to speak and vote. Otherwise, they will have to offer many explanations in Catalonia to justify the rejection of measures that affect Catalans and citizens of all communities. The ERC will be very vigilant and ready to denounce the behavior of Carles Puigdemont’s party.
But the government will not just pull the gent’s rope on him; Also PP. The first is obvious; PP, through a wide range of shared social and economic interests. But without announcing it. The pairing, when appropriate, will be evident on the congressional voting scoreboard.
In live votes this week, the sound of the door closing should not be heard. Junts agrees to the contents of the Customer Service Code; The Sustainable Mobility Act, the Social Economy Act and Aids to Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. After that, which had already been discussed before the separation, but not yet voted on, there will be other things that will also be of interest and necessity to the Catalans, and the government argues to justify that it does not consider the relationship permanently severed.
We must always take into account the impact of European court decisions on Junts. The EU Advocate General will present his first conclusions on the amnesty law Operations This Thursday the 13th. It is about expressing your opinion in the consultations carried out by the Spanish courts. Doubts about whether the Spanish government acted in the public interest, whether it “self-pardoned” or whether there was a transfer of funds that affected EU interests, among other pending inquiries. All bad news that reaches Gantz from the Spanish or European courts is translated by independence supporters as “non-compliance” by Pedro Sánchez. For example, the unresolved pardon of Puigdemont, without taking into account that it completely exceeds the capabilities of the executive power.
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