1:55 p.m.
Sánchez, to Feijóo: “Political violence is condemned, we do not govern with it as they do with Abascal”
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has reproached the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, for not having censored the words of Santiago Abascal last Sunday when, after the insults of Javier Milei, the president of Vox said that it was necessary to “eject kicking and slapping the hat” to the Government.
“Political violence is condemned, we do not govern with it as they do with Abascal,” Sánchez snapped at Feijóo. “Vox is what it is. The drama is that the PP is no longer what it was. The thanks I give to the citizens who mobilized last June to prevent a Government of Mr. Feijóo with you,” he concluded.
By Aitor Riveiro
1:43 p.m.
Sánchez, to Feijóo: “My partner is honest but you are only interested in the destruction of the adversary”
Pedro Sánchez has responded to the PP leader’s accusations against his partner by referring to the reports from the prosecutor’s office and the Civil Guard that rule out any criminal hypothesis of influence peddling in the professional activity of Begoña Gómez. “I have already given clear explanations about my partner: she is an honest and first-class professional who has not done anything wrong. But you are not interested in the truth, only in the destruction of the political adversary and clinging to the idea of being able to win in court what she did not win at the polls,” he reproached her.
The President of the Government has also demanded that Feijóo not threaten him or anyone in his family with appearances in the investigative commissions. “Do not accuse me, do not threaten me, I have given the explanations in Congress. What do you want to get me to appear in the Senate? Me, delighted. What do you want to take my wife too? It will be your responsibility, but also delighted,” he concluded.
By Jose Monrossi
1:23 p.m.
Ayuso’s partner arrives at the Superior Court of Madrid to ratify his complaint against the prosecutors who investigated him
Businessman Alberto González Amador, partner of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, arrived at the headquarters of the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid a few minutes after 1:00 p.m. He is summoned to ratify his complaint against the prosecutor who investigated him for two alleged tax crimes and falsification of documents and the chief prosecutor of Madrid, whom he accuses of revealing secrets due to the press release from the Prosecutor’s Office that denied a hoax by Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, chief of staff of the Madrid president.
González Amador has entered the TSJM headquarters with his new image, without a beard and with very short hair. Two of his lawyers got out of the same car first and the vehicle continued. At one point, González Amador got out of that same car and walked a distance of about ten meters, until he entered the TSJM building among a cloud of cameras.
By Pedro Agueda
1:14 p.m.
The mayor of Madrid hints at the PP’s rejection of the Land Law
The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, has dropped the Popular Party’s rejection of the Land Law, on which the Congress of Deputies has to rule tomorrow and which Sumar also opposes. “I am not going to enter into the debate on the Housing Law, nor on the Land Law. Without prejudice to the fact that this has positive aspects for the town councils, as it does.”
However, he stated that “it is not possible to approve the Housing Law with some partners and try to remove the Law from the ground with others. Having said that, there must also be space for understanding and dialogue,” he explained at the inauguration of the Sima real estate show.
Inform Cristina G. Bolinches
1:08 p.m.
Yolanda Díaz defends her ‘no’ to the reform of the Government’s Land Law: “Adding is not in the model of speculation and corruption”
The second vice president of the Government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, defended this Wednesday Sumar’s rejection of the law that the socialist part of the Executive will take to Congress this Thursday to reform the land law, a text that came out without consensus in the heart of the coalition. “They are two radically different models and Sumar is not in the model of speculation and unlimited corruption,” she said in statements to the media in the corridors of the Lower House.
Díaz has defended that this discrepancy is agreed upon within the Government. Sumar’s ministers presented a series of allegations to that text when it was discussed within the Council of Ministers. “We do not share the drawing of the urban policy that the PSOE wants to make with the law,” said the leader of Sumar, who believes that establishing “fundamental guarantees” for the cancellation of urban plans can lead to a model of speculation and the corruption.
If Sumar remains in the ‘no’ vote in this Thursday’s vote, the Socialist Party will have to knock on the door of the Popular Party to try to save that law. If it does not obtain that support either, this will be the first law of the executive that does not go forward in the entire legislature and the second consecutive parliamentary defeat, in the same week, for the majority partner of the Government. In both cases, due to the discrepancies with Sumar.
It counts Alberto Ortiz
12:46 p.m.
Podemos accuses Sánchez of making the decision to recognize the State of Palestine not out of principles but to “look for a headline”
The Secretary General of Podemos, Ione Belarra, has considered that the recognition of the State of Palestine is “neither the most urgent nor the most useful” at the moment, after the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has announced that the Council of Ministers will recognize it next week.
And he has maintained that “many people think” that Sánchez has made this decision not out of principles but “to look for a starter.” “Despite the announcements, Spain today continues to buy weapons from Israel,” Belarra said from the rostrum, where he accused the Government of not daring to break relations with the Government of Benjamin Netanyahu because it is an “ally of the US.”
By Alberto Ortiz
12:41 p.m.
The PNV reiterates its commitment to the legislature and urges to work “beyond the noise”
The PNV spokesperson in Congress, Aitor Esteban, has reiterated his party’s commitment to the stability of the legislature, signed in the investiture pact of Pedro Sánchez after the months of regional elections and the President of the Government’s period of reflection. Esteban criticized Sánchez for returning from said five-day period “without any concrete proposal” and asked about the parliamentary stability of the Executive, before assuring his support for it. “What I am saying is that the PNV sticks to compliance with the investiture pact it has with you and invites you to continue in the line of dialogue and compliance that we have established,” said the spokesperson during his speech in the Lower House.
“I trust that all the formations will take a long view, so that the tension is reduced and that in the rest of this legislature they will work and agree from the support or opposition to the Government, but, yes, beyond the noise “added Esteban.
12:14 p.m.
Aitor Esteban: “When we proposed creating a cordon sanitaire for the extreme right, no one joined in”
The PNV spokesperson, Aitor Esteban, criticized this Wednesday in Congress that when they proposed “making a cordon sanitaire for the extreme right, no one joined in.” “If instead of 30 minutes we had used 30 seconds to respond to them, things would be different,” he said.
Esteban has criticized the “temptation” of some political groups to use the “confrontation” with the extreme right for “electoral purposes” and prefer this to that “cordon sanitaire.” “And now is the time to put your foot on the wall and not before? I am not sure that we are on time,” he lamented.
The Basque deputy has warned that it is likely that this extreme right will be strengthened in the next European elections, but has stated that “it will not be the left” who stops it, but rather the “leaders of the center” or the “democratic right.” .
12:08 p.m.
Aizpurua reproaches the Government for the lack of “progress” in “housing, employment and social protection”
The spokesperson for EH Bildu in Congress, Mertxe Aizpurua, has reproached the Government for the lack of “progress” in the social agenda for which its deputies facilitated the investiture of Pedro Sánchez. “Let us not forget, and let us not forget you, that if we made the formation of your Government possible it was not so that citizens could attend a new episode of a bad series every week, but so that citizens could attend each week to a new advance in their rights and freedoms. And this is not happening like that,” she snapped in her response to the president’s parliamentary appearance.
“Six months have passed since his inauguration and we have barely managed to make progress on issues that affect citizens such as housing, employment, social protection, tax justice, the recovery of freedoms or the improvement of pensions,” he maintained. “Nor have we made any progress in the need to address the plurinational debate in a calm, ambitious and profound manner that resolves the territorial conflict from the effective recognition of the different realities and national identities that make it up,” he assured.
By Aitor Riveiro
12:02 p.m.
EH Bildu warns Sánchez of the risk of “overacting” in his response to Javier Milei
The spokesperson for EH Bildu, Mertxe Aizpurua, warned this Wednesday the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, of the risk of “overacting” in his response to the insults of the President of Argentina, Javier Milei, and which has motivated Spain to withdraw his ambassador in Buenos Aires. Attacks on you by Milei must be reported and rejected. You have taken a firm position on this, we understand it. But perhaps if this episode had occurred at another political moment, the consequences would have been different,” she said in her reply to the parliamentary appearance of the Chief Executive. ”That is why the decisions that are made must be carefully measured, because there is a risk of overacting and society understanding that there are interests beyond the objective of defending their position and their country. This encourages the political discredit that we denounce when it is others who generate it.”
Aizpurua has concluded: “It is difficult to understand the categorical response to the Argentine case, without taking away any seriousness, with the laxity that is maintained with respect to Israel or Morocco.”
Inform Aitor Riveiro.