The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, will ask the head of the executive branch, Pedro Sánchez, this Wednesday “what credibility his government has” and he will do so in the first control session of the Congress after the imprisonment of the former socialist minister José Luis Ábalos, after the errors that Sánchez himself made in the management of the procedure opened in the party for the complaints of sexual harassment against the former Moncloa advisor Francisco Salazar made, and a day later the publication of the ruling disqualifying the former Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz.
Last Saturday, in an informal conversation with journalists, the head of the executive branch accepted “first and foremost” the mistakes made by the party, which had admitted that it had not acted conscientiously or had not properly taken care of Salazar’s subordinates in Moncloa, who had reported the harassment on the PSOE’s internal channel. In addition, this Tuesday the government fired Antonio Hernández, the right-hand man of the former government adviser, whom some women had accused of wanting to protect Salazar.
This Wednesday is the only control plenary session of this month of December. It takes place in the middle of the campaign for the elections in Extremadura on the 21st and with Ábalos in custody for alleged bites in the awarding of contracts for the purchase of medical supplies in a pandemic.
The various cases of corruption suffered by the government and the PSOE will also be raised in the debate between Vox leader Santiago Abascal and Sánchez, who will urge him to carry out a “management assessment”.
And he will also debate this week with the President of the Government, the ERC spokesman Gabriel Rufián, who will ask him to reveal “what worries him most at this moment of the legislative period, in which he has lost the support of Junts and has a majority against it in Congress”.
BOLAÑOS AND ALBARS
In addition, PP and Vox want to address the Minister of Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, Félix Bolaños, for whom they have submitted a total of four questions.
In particular, the speaker of the ethnic group, Ester Muñoz, will try to get him to confess if “he believes that the image presented by the government is positive”; The party’s general secretary, Miguel Tellado, will be interested to know whether he shares with Sánchez “that governing means resistance”, and the leader Cuca Gamarra, also “popular”, will ask him to clarify what he means by “democratic exercise”.
For her part, Vox spokeswoman Pepa Rodríguez de Millán will ask the minister to explain “what Spaniards can expect from the government next year”.
INQUIRY ABOUT CORRUPTION TO YOLANDA DÍAZ
The “people’s representatives” also asked Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares questions about Spain’s “reputation” abroad and, in particular, how corruption affects this image. These questions bear the signatures of the deputies Carlos Rojas and Jaime de Olano respectively.
And after the questions to the members of the government, the PP will once again call on the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, to hold herself accountable for corruption. The Popular Party had originally directed this questioning to Bolaños, but the minister reported his absence during the questioning session and the party decided to raise the matter with the also Minister of Labor and leader of the minority partner in the government.
This consultation will lead to a motion on the same topic that will be voted on in Congress in February 2026, when the Chamber resumes its regular plenary sessions after the Christmas recess and the parliamentary non-working month of January.
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