The devilish majorities lead to Congress and Senate to an unpublished institutional shock | Spain

« Look now for what is going to happen. » This is how a PP deputy anticipated on Thursday in the halls of the hemicycle the script rotation that arrived later and that caught the government by surprise. After have shown in favor of the State Public Health Agency during its parliamentary processpopular and together knocked together – after maintaining previous contacts – the agency of the Ministry of Health in a rocambolesca vote of Congress. The movement of both formations was orchestrated as a protest to the early elimination of the amendments of a different law, incorporated and approved previously in the Senate, but that received the veto of the Moncloa because they affected the budgets. Both powers – the approval of amendments in the Upper House and the veto for affecting public accounts – are covered by the Constitution. The collision of both rights caused such an unprecedented situation in democracy that even the major lawyer of the lower house, Fernando Galindo, was not clear whether it was possible or not to impose the veto by the Treasury, according to socialist sources of the table present in the deliberation.

« It is a very strange thing that had never happened. In the background, it is a perverse game, » other sources of the Cabinet of the president of Congress, Francina Armengol. On the opposite side, the popular accuse the government of « prevailing » using the government body of the lower house with a movement that they consider unconstitutional. « The seriousness of this action is not preceded, because it is contrary to the rules of the parliamentary process, » complained the president of the Senate, Pedro Rollán, in a hard letter addressed to Armengol one day before the debate. It was not the first time in this legislature that the fourth institution of the State and the third They crossed missive with positions found.

The bridges between the two headquarters of Parliament are completely flown after a year and a half of legislature by a distribution of devilish forces: with PSOE and add sustained by the investiture partners – and fighting each negotiation – in the congress and with the PP with total control over the Senate thanks to its absolute majority. Voting instability, in many unforeseen cases, is accentuated with a together by advising blows or setting pacts to convenience – e in extremis-. A parliamentary gazpacho that has led to episodes with the parties looking with magnifying glass for the regulations of the cameras, twisted at will, in addition to continuous resources before the Constitutional Court by scenarios until now unexplored. AND With the anger taken to the extreme in the hemicycle.

It is planned that, on Tuesday, the minutes of the meeting of the Congress table last week, in which PSOE and add up to the amendments that affected the budget, reveal how the tense conversations were. The next chapter will arrive soon, when the socialist part of the Government uses the same argument to try to impose a veto on the propositions of law promoted by adding and PP that intend to exempt the minimum interprofessional salary of taxation into the IRPF, claiming that it would affect public accounts. Something that the Department of Finance opposes. Meanwhile, the Second Vice President and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, will face the contradiction to raise that veto voting next to the popular on the table of the lower house when its formation supported at the same time this week the opposite: the veto to the movement of the PP and the independentistas under the same reason that the amendments affected public accounts.

Some conflicts have already ended with resources before the Constitutional Court. The first decision of the Guarantees Body came 10 days ago, when the reform of the regulation of the Upper Chamber declared unconstitutional than the PP approved in November 2023 to delay the processing of the Amnesty Law. In this resolution, the magistrates ask to apply « rigor » and « common sense » in another reform of the regulation that the popular now promotes and that involves a deep modification of the role of the upper house. The Constitutional also highlights the preeminence of Congress on the Senate in the legislative process in accordance with the Constitution. The taking into consideration of the PP reform proposal will be discussed on April 8. A plenary that is expected of high voltage with the frontal opposition of the PSOE, which in Congress has also promoted two reforms during this legislature: to introduce co -official languages, as part of the assignments to the investiture partners, and one last to put the ultras activists in the lower house, which has had the support of all the formations except PP and Vox.

Meanwhile, this Monday starts in the Senate, Fortín del PP, the DANA Research Commission. The first to appear will be the Professor of Hydraulic Engineering and Environment at the Polytechnic University of València Juan Bautista Marco and the Professor of Hydraulic Engineering and Environment of the Polytechnic University of Valecéncia Félix Ramón French. To those who will be added on Tuesday the architect director of the Perretta architecture, Julio Gómez-Pertta de Mateo, and the dean of the College of Caminos, Canales and Ports of the Valencian Community Javier Machí Felici.

The popular intend to influence the competence infrastructure of the central government and the exclusive responsibility of the Moncloa, leaving the leaders of the Generalitat Valenciana out of the commission. Except for President, Carlos Mazón, because the Chief of the Consell asked motu proprio Go to the Senate. The PP has denied the PSOE, however, The request to assist the journalist with whom he ate the popular baron on the day of the Dana. On the other hand, he will call the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez. In Congress, another commission of research on the tragedy of Valencia continues its course, with the agenda marked by the Government and its partners. The PSOE has already announced that he will ask for the appearance of the PP leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.

In the coming weeks it is also expected in the Investigation Commission of the Koldo case of the Senate, promoted by the PP, the appearance of the women to whom it has been related to former minister José Luis Ábalos. This is Jessica R., Claudia M., Andrea T. and Nicole N. The popular will upload them to the bench of the Upper House and submit them to the interrogation of the senators after having referred to them repeatedly in the hemicycle as the « prostitutes » of the former socialist leader.