The event could come to nothing if, as socialist sources suggest, Pedro Sánchez’s investiture ends up being celebrated that day.
After several months without being audited, the acting executive will have to face his first next week control session. It will be in the Senate, where the PP has used its absolute majority to introduce questions to the Government on the agenda of the next plenary session. Thus, next Tuesday, November 7, these types of debates, absent from Spanish politics since last May, will be recovered in the Upper House. The event could come to nothing if, as socialist sources suggest, the event ends up being celebrated that day. investiture of Pedro Sánchez.
The PP has taken this step after several weeks in which they have denounced that Congress was closed “tight and tight” by order of Sánchez to avoid asking about their negotiation with the Catalan independentists. Despite the criticism, it has taken the conservatives about a month and a half to call the control sessions in the Upper House, where they enjoy an absolute majority that allowed them to adopt this decision at any time.
The spokesperson of the PP in the Senate, Javier Arenas, explained that in this control session the conservatives will have ten question times to question the acting Government. In addition, he has pointed out that they will debate two motions that they are working on and will recover a bill to reduce VAT on hairdressers, a measure that the socialists rejected.
Background
Although they have not held sessions to question the acting Government about its actions, the Popular Party has called two plenary sessions with the aim of approving motions against the conversations of the Chief Executive with ERC and Junts. In the first, promoted at the beginning of the month, they disapproved of the socialist leader for negotiating the amnesty and, in the second, three quarters of the same. Furthermore, two weeks ago they activated the General Commission of Autonomous Communities so that all the regional presidents could discuss the amnesty.