The parliamentary spokesman for Vox, Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, downplayed this Tuesday the political program of Ramón Tamames on Catalonia, which involves the designation of autonomy as the "Catalan Nation", the creation of a Federal Tax Agency or the sending of various institutions, such as the Senate, among other measures.
As EL MUNDO recounted this Tuesday, these were several of the proposals of the Vox candidate in the motion of no confidence sent by letter to the former president of the Generalitat Artur Mas on October 3, 2017, just 48 hours after the illegal referendum attempt. held in Catalonia and the same day as Felipe VI's speech to the public.
Despite being at the ideological antipodes of the approaches of their aspiring government candidate, in Vox they trust that their independent profile will even allow them to capture the vote of other political groups in Congress that do applaud this speech by Tamames. "The further [Tamames] is from Vox's positions, the more we like the ability we have to propose to other deputies from other parties that they support a candidate who is not from Vox," Espinosa de los Monteros defined in this regard.
In fact, in Vox they consider that the information that appears regarding their candidate as the days go by only strengthens their plan, which does not try to impose the ideas of the party, but rather to make a general x-ray of the problems that the party suffers. country as a result of the management of the coalition government.
"Every day that new news emerges about points of view other than the candidate, the idea is more consolidated that it was a good idea to bring in an independent person who can, precisely, attract people who think, vote or manifest themselves in a different way. to Vox", summed up the party's spokesman in Congress.
Santiago Abascal himself, after registering the motion this Monday, already said he was "settling" for having a "minimum coincidence" with Ramón Tamames and not caring that in his speech on the rostrum he expressed points of view different from that of Vox.
Since the motion of censure was confirmed last week, the government's allied parties, including Unidas Podemos, have held talks to see if they adopted a joint strategy to ignore Vox's initiative. However, this idea promoted by ERC is colliding with the resistance of the parties to remain silent that day and to waste a loudspeaker at the gates of regional and municipal elections. Gabriel Rufián has recognized that his approach was "not to participate in this circus ", but he has assumed that he has "little hope" that the rest of the parliamentary groups "understand it". As he explained, in his view there are two options to "hurt" the extreme right: "laugh and ridicule it," he said, or "not participate in their mandangas." With this premise, Rufián contacted last week with the spokespersons for Unidas Podemos, EH Bildu, PNV, Compromís or Más País, among others. However, the passing of days is giving way to the idea of "not participating". This Tuesday the leaders of the PNV, Compromís and PDeCAT have expressed their determination to intervene, even if it is to make a minimal speech, which is where the shots are going now. In fact, not even ERC yet knows exactly what to do. Aitor Esteban (PNV), who already did so in Vox's first motion of no confidence, has indicated that all initiatives in Congress deserve a "reply", even if it may be "shorter or longer". And it is what it will do. "We will make an intervention." Similarly, Joan Baldoví (Compromís) has indicated that if the PSOE is going to intervene in the debate, which it is going to do, it will also do the same. For Ferran Bel (PDeCAT) the situation is similar . His will is to make a "very concise" intervention regardless of "what other spokesmen do." He justifies this minimal discourse by "not feeding the spectacle that some want Congress to become". doubts. Pablo Echenique has assured that they are debating how to face the debate and that the decision will not be made until there is a set date. And it is that, it is understood, that a motion of no confidence at the beginning of March is not the same scenario as in April, with strong airs of electoral pre-campaign.
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