Santiago Abascal met this Wednesday with the economist Ramón Tamames (Madrid, 1933) to ask him to be the candidate for the motion of no confidence that Vox wants to present. And the professor, who was a deputy for the PCE in the first legislature of the Transition and founded the IU, assures in conversation with EL MUNDO that he welcomes the offer "receptively." And that he will announce his final decision "next Tuesday."
"The country's situation warrants an examination of national sovereignty" to the work of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, considers Tamames. "I am studying the offer; we are seeing it and negotiating; we will decide next week," he adds.
Tamames would like the PP to join the idea of the motion of no confidence: "Undoubtedly, I hope it was a broader presence that asked me, but with 35 deputies it is enough." "I wish the PP and a greater breadth of deputies also asked me, including some from the PSOE as well. I have nothing against them. But with party discipline that is not going to happen," he recounts.
In a tweet, Abascal has indicated in a tweet that "it is not the first time" that they have met. "We agree that the situation in Spain requires deep reflection by the representatives of national sovereignty," she wrote.
Tamames' trajectory is very long. Since the 1950s, he has been a member of the PCE and in the anti-Franco ranks. Later he was deputy mayor of the Madrid City Council, in the years of Tierno Galván. And in 1985 he helped found Izquierda Unida. In 1989 he moved to the CDS.
Isn't it grating that a former communist deputy is the Vox candidate to replace Sánchez? "It is not a negative antecedent to be from the PCE, we have been in the same fight since 1956," Tamames settles this newspaper. "I was in jail for fighting for democracy," he insists.
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