The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, announced this Friday that his group would ask Congress to convene an extraordinary plenary session next week and the urgent appearance of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to “give explanations on the systemic corruption” that overwhelms the PSOE. The PP needs the support of at least one other parliamentary group to make its request to the President of Congress, Francina Armengol. “If other groups want to normalize this situation, it’s up to them. Mine won’t do it,” Feijóo said on his Twitter account.
“Spain cannot spend its days between roundups, arrests and imprisonments of socialist leaders while Sánchez locks himself up in Moncloa,” Feijóo emphasizes in his message. “It is inconceivable that he intends to disappear from Congress before February,” he adds. “Staying in the bunker without giving explanations about the systemic corruption of your government is not an option,” he assures, deciding: “Let it show now.”
The Lower House calendar does not provide for a new plenary session before February. It is an unwritten rule that Congress does not hold sessions in the days before elections, and elections are scheduled for December 21 in Extremadura. According to the Regulations of the Congress, January is not a working month for holding plenary sessions.
But the internal regulations allow groups to request extraordinary plenary sessions, under conditions. During the ordinary period of sessions, “the plenary session will be convened by the presidency, on its own initiative or at the request of at least two parliamentary groups or a fifth of the members of the Chamber”, specifies the regulations. This is why the PP needs another group to support the demand.
In the past few hours, two raids have been carried out, hitting the socialist wing of the government. The UCO arrested Leire Díez, the former president of SEPI and businessman Antxón Alonso, alleged partner of Santos Cerdán. Additionally, national police are investigating whether Plus Ultra airline used public ransom money to launder illegal money. Added to all this are internal scandals linked to sexual harassment by PSOE leaders.
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