Vox will not be able to present motions of censure alone or appeal to the Constitutional Court

MADRID, 24 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Vox's loss of seats in the general elections held this Sunday, in which it has gone from 52 to 33 deputies in Congress, leaves the party without the possibility of presenting motions of censure alone or appealing before the Constitutional Court, two of which have been its main opposition assets during the last legislature.

In these elections, those of Santiago Abascal have suffered a decrease of more than 600,000 votes and went from a percentage of 15.08 percent to 12.40 percent compared to 2019. This has resulted in the loss of a third of the seats they had in Congress and reduced their chances of opposition.

Specifically, the regulations of the Lower House dictate that motions of censure must be presented with the signature of at least one tenth of the members of the chamber, 35 deputies. This means that Vox can no longer use this mechanism to oppose the Government alone during this legislature and needs the support of at least two deputies from other parliamentary groups if it wants to use this tool again.

In the last legislature, Vox carried out two motions of censure against Pedro Sánchez, both of which failed. The first of these was debated in October 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, and Abascal himself was the alternative candidate for the Presidency of the Government. The second motion of censure was in March of this year and in this case the candidate was Professor Ramón Tamames.

In both vitas Vox registered the motions of no confidence alone thanks to the 52 seats it had in Congress and it was also the only parliamentary group to vote in favor (it only had the additional support of the Mixed Group deputy Pablo Cambronero in the Tamames motion).

With the result of this Sunday, Vox also loses another of its main opposition weapons in recent years, that of filing appeals before the Constitutional Court. In the legislature, the party brought before the high court almost fifty writings against laws approved by Parliament.

The law dictates that the President of the Government, the Ombudsman, 50 deputies or 50 senators and the autonomous governments and parliaments may file an appeal for unconstitutionality; so that the 33 deputies obtained by Vox are far from being able to do it without the help of parliamentarians from other parties.

Neither Sumar, who won 31 deputies this Sunday, will be able to make use of these two tools, which are thus reserved for the two big parties, PP and PSOE, with 136 and 122 deputies respectively.