PSOE and PP use ten research commissions to threaten each other in Congress and the Senate | Spain

Most political parties believe that The investigation commissions in the Cortes They are useful, but it is not very clear for what. The Constitution barely sets limits, because They can be created to inquire about any matter. In Congress there are two in force, two dissolved with hardly any explanations and two others, waiting for what the PP and the Senate does. In the upper house three are open and there is another newly registered, pending what the Government and Congress do. The issues to be investigated are repeated: the Dana, the Great Blackout or the Koldo casebut the goals to beat. In Congress, what interests the executive partners or against past efforts of the PP is investigated. In the Senate, where the PP enjoys absolute majority, only against Pedro Sánchez.

In recent days, on the occasion of the great blackout of April 28, PP and PSOE have announced their intention to promote paths Research commissionsin the Senate and Congress, about what happened. The PP will take her to the upper house, as she threatened Its leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, President Sánchez in Wednesday’s debate, to show her inability to manage that crisis and because she understands that the Government will want to avoid it in Congress. The PSOE will take it forward in the lower house with its partners to find out where the culprits can be, but in all areas, even those of the private companies involved.

The blackout is not the only case of that duplicity. In the Senate an over the Dana and another of the call Koldo casethat the PP promoted to counteract the Masks case (Officially about the teachings and deficiencies evidenced in the COVID-19), which the PSOE let out in Congress with hardly any significance. The development and dissolution of that commission is very illustrative.

When some balls appeared for commercial operations on medical material during the pandemic, and very particularly in the personal environment of the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the PSOE promoted that commission to scrutinize these millionaires contracts. It was approved on April 16, 2024, a six -month work calendar was set and 134 appearances were detailed. On October 1, the commission was closed by the end of extinction, 110 appearing were pending, there were no more calls, or conclusions and the deputies were not given no more reasons. PP, Vox and Canarian coalition, simply, did not support their expansion and the PSOE was silent, waiting to resume it in an inconcrete future about Feijóo’s family in its stage in the Xunta de Galicia, members of its team, popular autonomous barons and Ayuso itself.

Meanwhile, the PP activated a commission in this regard in the Senate through which ministers, José Luis Ábalos, his ex -assistant Koldo and a EXPARATING SEQUENCE OF EXPARA number two of the PSOE. The PP, in the Senate, is proud of its achievements: “A possible fiscal fraud has been announced with the masks of more than 160 million that the Secretary of State for the Treasury said they did not know; there have been resignations and imputations in transport; plot, for example that Óscar Puente said that in The hiring of Jésica there were no indications of irregularities; We uncovered that Jésica was attached to the presidency of Adif, and that in Tragsatex it was known as the minister’s niece. ”

The PP accuses the government of boycotting their requests in the Senate by denying documentation or not helping to locate appearing and the PSOE, its allies and the president of the Congress to try to mount “Distraction or concealment commissions” in the service of Sánchez to cover their scandals.

The General Secretary of the PSOE in Congress, Montse Mínguez, welcomes these types of sessions « at these moments and exceptional circumstances and nothing normal that we are living » and for citizens to see that there is transparency and nothing is hidden, but it bothers him the « abuse » and the claim of the PP to transform those of the Senate « into a set of Save me« . Mínguez points out as an example what happens in the Koldo case: « Do you need to call the ministers Ángel Víctor Torres and Óscar Puente three times? Is it intended to collect information or only want the photo, the scandal and the partisan use? »

Large parties have deputies for almost everything. For little ones they are extra work. Jon Iñarritu, of EH Bildu and a member of several, argues that the instrument itself “is not bad if they are done well and if they are not used in torticra” as noted against the PP in the Senate.

ERC deputy, Francesc-Marc Álvaro, who is already part of a dozen normal commissions, is in two others of investigation. “It is very discretionary, some are justified and others do not. If a parliament does not substance the search for political responsibilities in the case of the Danawhich should be basic, obliged and necessary for transparency and democratic quality, is that we are going very badly, ”summarizes the Dana Commission in Congress was a promise that is frozen, for great discomfort of parties such as Compromís. The PSOE argues there that the judicial route must move more and that of the Valencian Parliament, controlled by the PP and Vox. The Senate is underway, but by other paths.

The incompatibility of those political commissions with which they maintain an open judicial process, an argument and Complaint of many legal expertsokay according to the occasion. The PSOE, in the previous legislature, did not see meaning to set up a commission on the illegal espionages of Pegasus (among others to the former president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès) for those reasons, but after the 2023 elections, when the votes of ERC and Juns were essential and demanded it among their conditions, they were approved. And also another about jihadist attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils of 2017, which have barely served to echo conspiracy theories of magnets and commissioners of the sewers of the State. The Pegasus commission came a time when it disappeared and subsumed in that of Operation Catalonia, designed to determine the role of commanders of the Rajoy Interior Ministry in illegal actions against political rivals. Now it has become a pediment on who was more guilty of bringing the failure of the independence process to the limit.