The government control sessions are a parliamentary use that arose so that the representatives of popular sovereignty demand responsibilities from the Executive Power. Its articulation derives from article 111 of the Constitution, according to which “the Government and each of its members are subject to interpellations and questions that are formulated in the Chambers”. The aforementioned article then specifies that “for this kind of debate the regulations will establish a minimum weekly time”. But it is useless to look in the analytical index of the Constitution or the Regulations for the concept “control session” because it does not appear. The most approximate are the references to the “Questions with an oral response in plenary” that give an account of what your proposal is like so that they be registered on the agenda of the next session, of the priority that is granted in favor of the deputies that they have not formulated any and what is their regulation.

But the control sessions with the Government have suffered many misrepresentations, to the point of mutating into control sessions with the opposition by the Government, and have made it possible to verify the accuracy of that cartoon of El Roto, which appeared haloing a hero, said a legend “All criticism is excessive” and below added: “All praise, insufficient”. Thus, the hypersensitivity towards the slightest criticism they receive and the insatiability in demand for praise that is never heaped has become a characteristic of the heads of the Executive Branch that tends to worsen in direct proportion to the time the hero remains in Moncloa.

On Wednesday, the 10th, the day before Pedro Sánchez's trip to Washington at the invitation of President Joe Biden, the questions at the control session made no reference to the imminent meeting at the White House, nor to his obsequious preparations such as that of the minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, signing with the United States ambassador in Madrid, Julissa Reynoso, the agreement on the two new destroyers assigned to the Spanish base in Rota, which has been stolen from Parliament; or the one referring to the reception of migrants from Central America that the United States refuses to accept on its soil. An obsequiousness that has been traditional in the attitude of Pedro Sánchez's predecessors in line with Elias Canetti for whom “the joy of the weakest is to give something to the strongest”.

It is difficult to imagine that the visit this Friday, the 12th, could include claims by the Spanish referring, for example, to the promise as repeated as it was unfulfilled to take away the contaminated lands of Palomares (Almería) after the nuclear bombs that fell there in 1966 as a result of the collision of a bomber and the mother plane that was refueling it in flight. Nor is Sánchez expected to express any displeasure at the lack of loyalty of our American ally in altering its position to recognize Moroccan sovereignty over the Western Sahara territory of which Spain remained nominally the administering power.

The opposition on Wednesday adhered to the primer that reiterated its doubts about the economic successes that the Government attributes to itself as insatiable. Without it being of any use to their spokesmen to express themselves correctly because Pedro Sánchez brought the written responses from home and launched into reproaching the spokesmen for the PP and Ciudadanos for predicting the apocalypse and hurling insults and disqualifications at him that had never come to pass. direct him. He only used the white glove to respond to bloc partners such as Aitor Esteban from the PNV who returned to the Zabalza case and the incomprehensible rise of General Espejo of the Civil Guard. He accused the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Marlaska, when promotions in that body are proposed by the Minister of Defense and agreed, like all situations, promotions and assignments of general officers, by the Council of Ministers.