There is no unity in Congress to plant Tamames promoted by ERC in the motion of no confidence

MADRID, 27 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The ERC proposal to plant Ramón Tamames in Congress when he goes to defend the motion of censure against Pedro Sánchez registered by Vox does not have the unitary support of the rest of the groups in the Chamber, with which everything indicates that it will not bear fruit.

As explained by the spokesperson and deputy general secretary of ERC, Marta Vilalta, her party has launched this idea to the rest of the chamber as a formula for not "laundering" Santiago Abascal's party. Of course, it has already advanced that for it to make sense it would have to be a unitary action and that if an agreement is not reached ERC will make its voice heard.

The ERC parliamentary spokesman, Gabriel Rufián, already promoted a similar initiative in the previous motion of no confidence presented by Vox against Pedro Sánchez, which was debated in October 2020 with Abascal as a candidate for La Moncloa, but it did not go ahead either.

Parliamentary allies such as Bildu, Más País and Compromís, as well as the BNG, have not yet made a decision on this ERC proposal, but some already tell Europa Press that their intention is not to leave the rostrum empty and they see it as difficult to give up speaking. especially if the Government and other groups are going to take the floor.

Of course, they always have the option of making short speeches, without exhausting the minutes they have available, or intervening from the seat. In fact, the speaking times that are agreed upon by the Spokespersons Meeting for each group are only a maximum, they do not oblige the spokespersons to make full use of them.

On the other hand, from the PNV they do not see it as appropriate to remain silent and remain on the sidelines of the debate. In addition, the Basque nationalists stress that they will make their own decisions in this regard as they have always done.

In 2020, his spokesman, Aitor Esteban, took just over a minute to dispatch Abascal. He went up to the rostrum to refuse to give a ball to a motion that he labeled as "patochada" and accused Vox of making "spurious" use of that constitutional instrument.

Outside the investiture block, Ciudadanos has made it clear that it will make itself heard during that debate. Its national spokesperson, Patricia Guasp, has insisted that Tamames's motion is "useless" but has advanced that her party will not plant it and will take advantage of it to defend its "country project."