The chronicle | All for Parliament but without Parliament | Spain
The leadership of the PP masculted in the halls of the Congress last Thursday, the weekly plenary: « The PSOE has voted against the Constitution and bring some budgets … And nothing happens here! » Indeed, the Chamber had just approved, with the government opposition, a point of a motion of the popular that urged the Executive to « comply with the constitutional mandate » and present some accounts in Parliament. And indeed, the matter passed without penalty or glory for the hemicycle and the media.
Not only the PSOE and add, also the Basque nationalist formations voted against. Who did join the claim of the PP – without any legal force – were usual government partners such as ERC, Podemos, BNG and Canarian coalition (CC). None made a lot of noise with the matter. In the debate, Republican Jordi Salvador dedicated more disqualifications to the author group that was supporting the government against which he was directed. Junts, by the mouth of Josep Maria Crust, launched a diatribe that any popular deputy could well have signed, appealing even to the Constitution. But, when voting, his group chose that way of disregarding that it is abstention.
Always conciliatory, Cristina Valido, of CC, located the Executive with another argument: « Bring the budgets and that each one is portrayed. » Among those who demanded the accounts from the Executive, there were several that would surely contribute to knock them down: the PP, without any doubt; ERC, with much probability, according to what has been anticipated for weeks by high -ranking sources, and perhaps we can, given the size of its conditions (rupture of diplomatic relations with Israel and imposition by decree of a 40% reduction in rents). The truth is that the government does not have much interest in portraying anyone with this matter. Rather fears that the portrayed is himwith a defeat in a capital issue that would give ammunition to the permanent debate on the viability of the legislature.
One of the multiple repeated accusations in the framed daily echoing against Pedro Sánchez is that he govern allegedly ignoring the Parliament. A co -eased reproach after his words last September before the Federal Committee of the PSOE –then nuanced– in which he proclaimed that the Legislature would continue « with or without support from the Legislative Power. » Before the arithmetic convoluted of the chamber, the Government does everything possible to avoid issues that can hold setbacks. But governing without Parliament is impossible. And ultimately, Congress has plenty of numbers to tear down the executive if he proposed it.
Although Sánchez often resorts to the figure of the decree, more than any other previous government, each of them has to go through the lower house after one month. The cabinet manages to validate them almost all, except cases Like the last Omnibus decree. Bad that good, a majority of groups that support them are finding. The last one, the measures to compensate for the effects of American tariffs, which last Thursday He gathered again in his favor to the majority that invised Sánchez against ‘No to everything’ of PP and Vox.
The increase in military spending by 10,471 million eurosas the budget resignation, that exemplifies that will to move forward « with or without the legislative. » It also shows the contrasts of Spanish politics: those who support Sánchez – including the ministers of adding – oppose military spending, and those who support military spending oppose Sanchez. The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, reiterated it during Oceanic parliamentary appearance of the president « Almost seven hours, of which Sánchez consumed three. »
So the socialist will do with the policy of rearming the same as with the budgets: throw forward without risking a parliamentary defeat. Some of his allies on the left, the most critical at this point, did not reproach him too much. Gabriel Rufián, from ERC – who has his own internal debates on the matter – went on a bit of tiptoe for military spending and focused on The suspended purchase of bullets to Israel. More overwhelming, Mertxe Aizpurua, of EH Bildu, labeled him as a “capital error” and questioned that he does not affect social spending as the president says. But at no time he committed his alliance with the Government. The toughest – cheroz, even – was Ione Belarra, by Podemos. Sánchez, silky with the rest of allies, replied with roughness.
« Malmenorism”It is a term frequently used by Rufián and by Podemos when they criticize the Government. The theory of minor evil to explain the political circumstances that favor the poor iron health of the Sánchez Cabinet. Because it is its parliamentary fragility and no matter how much it can dislike its allies at certain times, in the end it ends up prevailing the mortar of the rejection of what is in front.
The parents of the Constitution, obsessed with stability, imposed that Censorship motions must always be constructive. Sanchez came to power with the only one who managed to prosper in 47 years. The impossibility of putting another equal against him gives him a lifeguard for now infallible. And even allows you to put aside the Parliament in decisions of great importance. And without anything happens.
