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The PP confirms that it will call Sánchez to the Senate investigation commission: “The date has not been decided”
The PP will summon the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to the investigative commission opened in the Senate to analyze the so-called ‘Koldo case’, but which the right has extended to the alleged influence peddling that affects the wife of the Chief Executive. , Begoña Gómez.
This has been confirmed by the PP in a note sent to journalists in which they accuse the president of “stealing” the explanations that they have demanded from him in today’s appearance in Congress.
“We will set the date of the appearance at the appropriate time. It has not yet been decided,” points out the PP. “The summons to the President of the Government does not exclude any other parliamentary initiative that we consider appropriate,” he concludes.
By Aitor Riveiro.
6:11 p.m.
Montero, to Figaredo (Vox): “If you believe that social justice is aberrant then you do not believe in the Constitution”
María Jesús Montero, first vice president of the Government and Minister of Finance, questioned this afternoon in Congress the constitutionalism of Vox due to its closeness to the economic proposals of the Argentine president, Javier Milei, in response to a parliamentary question from José María Figaredo, of Vox.
“Do you believe, like Milei, that taxes are theft? Do you, like Milei, believe that Spain is on the verge of economic collapse due to interventionist policies? Do you believe that socialism is the cancer that destroys nations from within? Do you believe that wealth redistribution is based on resentment? Do you believe that social justice is an aberration? “She asked him.
Immediately afterwards, the vice president snapped at Figaredo that “if you believe all that then you do not believe in the Spanish Constitution,” and then described the Vox deputies as “poor patriots” and added that, “in the end, “They end up renouncing the same principles of the Spanish Constitution.”
María Jesús Montero ended this intervention by reproaching the representative of the extreme right for making a fuss and not listening to her and that, if she continues doing so, “she will never ever learn a single piece of information. And believe me, it is good for you to learn it.”
4:48 p.m.
Former President Zapatero, on Milei’s attacks: “He has an anti-political ideology, he is rabidly against everything”
Former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero does not remember “something of such severity”, neither from any other democratic leader, nor from the opposition in Spain. This is how Zapatero has described, in statements to the Argentine program La Pizarra, the attacks by Argentine President Javier Milei against his Spanish counterpart. “Milei said that socialism was death, that it had caused 150 million deaths,” Zapatero recalled. “I have not heard it from any leader of the extreme right in Europe. Never, nor to any opposition leader to President Sánchez.”
Asked for his assessment of what happened, Zapatero expressed his wish that “the Government of Argentina reflects and makes a rectification.” However, he has also currently lamented “we have a right that doesn’t care about institutions” and that, in the case of Milei, his actions are explained because, according to the former president, he has an “anti-political” ideology and does not believe in State or institutions. “That is being against everything, rabidly against everything,” said Zapatero.
By Cristina F. Pereda
4:36 p.m.
Feijóo makes a mistake when requesting the dismissal of Albares for having put “the interests of Spain above the interests of the Socialist Party”
In his second intervention in the Government control session this Wednesday, the leader of the opposition, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, suffered a lapse at the moment when he requested the dismissal of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares. Feijóo, from the rostrum, said that it was “imperative” that Sánchez fire the minister for “having put the interests of Spain above the interests of the Socialist Party.”
Immediately afterwards, the spokesperson for the Popular Party continued to rectify his previous sentence: “for having put the interests of Spain at the service of the interests of the Socialist Party.” Feijóo alleged the need for the dismissal of the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the management of the diplomatic crisis that arose as a result of the statements of the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, last weekend at a far-right event in Madrid.
His intervention has caused laughter and laughter both on the blue bench and on the left side of the chamber, especially the Minister of Foreign Affairs himself and the members of the Government located next to him or among several socialist deputies.
3:59 p.m.
Sánchez, to Feijóo: “You are with Aznar in international politics and with Abascal in national politics”
During the Government control session this Wednesday, the president criticized Alberto Núñez Feijóo for being incapable of taking a position regarding a historical milestone such as the recognition of the State of Palestine. “The summary is that the Government is with social justice, progress and peace and you are with Aznar in international politics and with Abascal in national politics,” he told him.
Sánchez recalled the economic data of Spain and the result of the elections in Catalonia to banish criticism from the right regarding the situation in the country. “Neither Spain sinks, nor Spain breaks. Spain is more prosperous and more united than when you governed,” he concluded.
By José Enrique Monrosi
3:27 p.m.
Abascal accuses Sánchez of “confronting our country with the most important nations in the Western world,” in reference to far-right governments.
” physical violence.” “You don’t know what you’re saying, you don’t know to what extent you are responsible for the breakdown of coexistence in Spain,” he said.
That said, he has also rejected Sánchez’s criticism of Vox’s allies, all from the European and international extreme right, and of whom, he said, he feels “very proud.” Abascal has predicted that “that far-right international that you refer to and demonize,” “will be the one that governs very soon in the United States, in France” and “is the one that governs in Italy, in Argentina and in many other places.” “, so he believes that the President of the Government “is putting Spain in a problem, pitting our country against the most important nations in the Western world.”
By Carmen Moraga.
3:26 p.m.
The Supreme Court acquits ‘Little Nicolás’ for the trip to Ribadeo posing as a liaison of the Government and the King’s House
The Supreme Court (TS) has agreed to acquit Francisco Nicolás Gómez Iglesias, known as ‘Little Nicolás’, of the crimes of usurpation of functions and bribery for which he was sentenced to three years in prison by the Provincial Court of Madrid for allegedly impersonate a liaison between the Government and the Royal House on a trip to Ribadeo (Lugo) in 2014.
As reported by the TS, the magistrates have concluded that Gómez Iglesias’ conduct consisted of a single impersonation action: the organization and presence at a meal with a businessman posing as a liaison between the Vice Presidency of the Government and the Royal House.
The high court has explained that the defendant’s action, according to the sentencing report, lacked the note of plurality that the Penal Code demands. And he insisted that it was “a meal without political or economic content that does not fit into the concept of an official act and was said to hold a non-existent position.”
Information of Europa Press
3:03 p.m.
Feijóo to Sánchez: “You are the machinery of the hoax”
The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has assured that Pedro Sánchez “will not be able to fight against the hoaxes, because his presidency is a big hoax.” In his last turn of reply during the appearance of the President of the Government, Feijóo recalled that Sánchez “came up in 2018 to present a motion against corruption.” And he snapped at her, ironically: “And look how he is. Please”.
Feijóo continued: “He repeated the elections in 2019 because he said that he could not govern with Podemos, he said that the governability of Spain cannot fall to the independentists, he said that they were not going to reach an agreement with Bildu. And in the 23rd he said that there will be no amnesty.
The leader of the PP has concluded: “You are a hoax factory, a hoax machinery. He is the author of the hoax and the mud in Spain.”
Inform Aitor Riveiro
2:42 p.m.
Sánchez calls on the groups to “return normality” to the Judiciary and overcome the PP blockade
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has called on all the parliamentary groups of the Congress of Deputies to “return normality” to the General Council of the Judiciary and overcome “the blockade of the PP” as soon as the call for the general elections passes. .
“We have to see among all the groups what we do to return normality to the General Council of the Judiciary. Here there are some who block and I only need the mediation of Guterres,” Sánchez replied to the PNV spokesperson, Aitor Esteban, who in his turn had accused the two major parties of maintaining an expired Judiciary.
By Jose Monrosi
2:32 p.m.
Sánchez breaks down the prices of various public health interventions: “Tell me which working family could afford them without a welfare state”
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, recalled during his speech in the control session in the Congress of Deputies the cost of different public services as an argument in defense of social justice. “Do you know how much an ICU bed cost per day during the pandemic? 3,700 euros daily. How much does a lung transplant cost? 135,000 euros. How much does a student’s tuition cost at a high school or public university? Between 7,000 and 9,000 euros per year. Tell me which working or middle-class family could afford these costs if there were no public and sovereign welfare state,” he expressed.
Sánchez has vindicated the work of his Executive in defending public services, in contrast to the work of the opposition. “We defend him, and others actually defend what he does with Vox where they govern. Eliminate taxes on large fortunes, on large estates, cut and privatize public education, public health, as teachers and health professionals have manifested in recent days in the Community of Madrid,” he reiterated.
