Gamarra believes that the vote shows the “enormous weakness” of the Government because the two coalition parties voted differently

MADRID, 27 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, has assured this Friday that her party “does not share” the project of the General Law of Audiovisual Communication of the Government and, in fact, has underlined that they have “amended it in depth”. However, she has explained that the Popular Group opted for abstention to avoid a “million-dollar sanction” from Europe, denying that it was due to pressure from television.

The abstention of the PP at the last minute allowed the Government this Thursday to carry out the Audiovisual Law, which transposes Directive (EU) 2018/1808 on Audiovisual Communication Services (DSCA), which has been up in the air due to the definition of independent producer that modified the PSOE with an amendment introduced in the process of Presentation.

Given the fact that United We Can also opted for abstention, when it is a government partner of the PSOE, Gamarra has stressed that the vote on that rule demonstrates the “enormous weakness of the Government of Pedro Sánchez.” “Not even the two coalition parties are capable of supporting a government law anymore,” he emphasized.

“In short, we see a Pedro Sánchez who is left alone and disoriented because a law barely has 130 votes in favor and 120 are from the PSOE, which shows an enormous weakness,” the PP leader reiterated in an interview on RNE, that Europa Press has collected.

Gamarra has pointed out that there has been no negotiation between the Government and the PP on this rule and has justified his abstention in the face of “warning by Europe of millionaire sanctions for not having carried out the transposition of a directive”. “This affected this law, therefore, that is the meaning of that abstention: to avoid a million-dollar sanction,” he stressed.

That said, he stressed that it is a law that the PP “does not share” and, in fact, he added that they have amended it “in depth” in the parliamentary process. “We consider that it is not the law that Spain needs,” he added.

Gamarra considers that this rule “greatly worsens the context in which the audiovisual world was developing in many aspects” and added that in the future another government will have to “address this with the sector with more consensus and agreement”.

When asked if the PP has received pressure from the big television groups, the also spokesperson for the Popular Group in Congress has indicated that her party is “free” and never responds “to pressure from anyone.”