The Government will decide the format of Sánchez’s intervention, although he “took note” of the complaints from minority groups
MADRID, 16 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, will meet again this Tuesday in the Senate in a new ‘face to face’ in just one month, this time on taxation and the role of the communities autonomous in terms of taxes, although the time available to the spokespersons of the groups to answer the chief executive will be repeated.
Sánchez decided last week that he wanted to appear at his own request in the Senate to report on the scope of the economic and fiscal measures adopted by the Government and the role of the communities in their implementation, and, in this way, hold a debate again with Feijoo.
The chief executive has already announced his intention to hold more debates in the Senate in order to be able to confront the opposition leader because, as he understood, he came out better in the ‘face to face’ with Feijóo. In fact, the Tezanos CIS published a ‘flash’ survey on this debate, which gave Sánchez the winner.
From the PP they denounced a “disproportion” in terms of time, since the groups had 15 minutes in their first intervention and another 5 minutes for the reply to Sánchez. For his part, the President of the Government does not have any type of time limit both in his first speech and in his response to the parties, something that ‘Genoa’ considered disadvantageous.
However, the Board of Spokespersons and the Senate Board –the bodies that order the debates– have decided to maintain the same intervention times for the groups, 15 and 5 minutes, despite the fact that there was a party that proposed increasing the reply five to ten minutes.
Finally, the Chamber Table decided to continue with the same times, alleging that they were the same minutes that the groups had in Sánchez’s appearance in Congress last Thursday.
That yes, in the case of the term that Sánchez will have, from the Upper House they remember that it is up to the Government to decide the time and format of its reply, and that, therefore, it is something that corresponds to the head of the Executive himself, since it does not There is no time limit set out in the Regulations.
There were several minority groups that complained that Sánchez grouped his reply in a single intervention while he had come to the fore to respond to Feijóo. In this sense, the Secretary of State for Relations with the Courts, Rafael Simancas, informed the Board of Spokespersons last Tuesday that the Government took note of the complaints.
In any case, the debate in the Senate seems to point again to the ‘face to face’ between the leaders of the two big parties, since Vox and Ciudadanos cannot count on their leaders and, in fact, lack of their own group, with which they must share their time with other formations.
Worse is the case of United We Can, which will not even be able to intervene in the Senate, since it has not had representation in this Chamber for more than a year and a half.
The Senate is made up of 264 senators divided into a total of eight parliamentary groups, whose distribution is very different from that of Congress. Behind the Socialist and Popular groups, with 113 and 103 senators, respectively, the group shared by Bildu and ERC (16 parliamentarians), the PNV (10), the Nationalist Group –Junts and Canary Coalition– (6 ), the Confederal Left (5), the Democratic (4) and the Mixed (7).
Vox shares the Mixed Group with two independents who left Ciudadanos, a senator from the Aragonese Party (PAR) and another from the Unión del Pueblo Navarro (UPN).
Ciudadanos, for its part, now only has a single senator, Miguel Sánchez López, who is part of the Democratic Group, together with the two senators from Teruel Exists and the one from the Regionalist Party of Cantabria.
