The Permanent Deputation of Congress has validated the royal decree of measures against the crisis caused by the war in Ukraine with the vote in favor of the PP and the usual partners of the Government and without any vote against. Not even that of Vox, which has abstained.
Thus, impact measures that were already in force are extended, such as the elimination of VAT on basic foods or public transport discounts, and other initiatives that are innovative and have a great impact are consolidated, such as the new generation of care permits. of children or other relatives and friends.
Despite the political brawl and the cross attacks between the PP and the PSOE after the elections on account of the governance of the country, the royal decree has passed the voting cutoff with 53 votes in favor, 11 abstentions and no votes against. The Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, has stressed that these are necessary measures and has quantified the cost that their application will have at 3,800 million euros.
The popular deputy, Jaime de Olano, has justified the support of his party in that they do not want to “put at risk some positive measures that help specific sectors” or others that being “clearly insufficient” may be extended when, he has predicted, the popular rule. The leader of the PP has reproached the Government for “totum revolutum” and having to vote all “bloc”.
Without substantive debates on the content, the meeting of the Permanent Deputation has become a battlefield between the opposition and the Government on the political situation in Spain after the general elections and the possibility that the PSOE and Sumar reissue the coalition government supported by ERC, EH Bildu and, as a novelty, Junts.
“Now it's Frankenstein with a wig”
“Now Puigdemont's party,” warned the spokesperson for Ciudadanos, Inés Arrimadas. “Frankenstein is going to return but this time with a wig,” he stated, after warning that it is a sign of the “degradation” of the Government that it is naturally assumed that Pedro Sánchez is going to agree with the “greatest fugitive from Justice” .
In the PP he has also been incisive in this criticism and has claimed that it “is up” to form a government because the alternative is “blockade” or an alternative majority of “populists, communists”, Otegi, Junqueras and a fugitive. “What kinds of interests will prevail in this coalition? Those of families or those of criminals like Junqueras, Puigdemont and all those who subverted the constitutional order?” Olano said.
The popular leader has disdained putting the country “in the hands of those who want to destroy it” and has denounced that these pro-independence parties are already “raising the price” to light a “Frankenstein 2”. Olano has warned of the opacity of the agreements that could be reached and has assured that “the governance of Spain cannot be placed in the hands of a fugitive from Justice”.
These criticisms have found the response of the PSOE deputy Montse Mínguez, who has pointed out the “hypocrisy” of the PP in claiming to be able to govern as the most voted list when it has made “losers' pacts” just a month ago in communities and town halls or in the past in places like the Community of Madrid. “Not even you apply the story,” he said. In addition, he has warned of the “dark pacts” with Vox to neutralize the criticism made of his agreements with the independentistas from the right.