The Deputy Secretary of Institutional Regeneration of the People's Party, Cuca Gamarra, stated this Sunday that the head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, "has the obligation to submit to a vote of confidence" in the event that he loses the vote scheduled in the Congress of Deputies this week.
The PP official made these statements to the media in Logroño at noon, where she traveled with various municipal officials from her party to tour several of the facilities distributed throughout the city for the "Concéntrico" Architecture Festival.
In her speech, Gamarra stressed that "this week Mr. Sánchez will appear in the Congress of Deputies, as I was saying, in a Congress that should have already been dissolved in view of the incapacity, paralysis, and corruption that surrounds him," adding that "there will also be another important vote this week."
As she explained, "we are finishing - she summarized - a week in which Sanchismo, in this case with the help of the President of Congress, has prevented us from voting on an initiative to call for elections. An initiative to see how many deputies call for elections, that is, we consider this legislature to be exhausted. Armengol has prevented it."
She took the opportunity to label this decision as "curious, because it is the same initiative that in 1995 another president of the Congress of Deputies, Félix Pons, did allow to be voted on, but this time it has been prevented."
Gamarra emphasized that "but this week - the PP leader insisted - we have a new vote, a new vote that leads the People's Party to urge the President of the Government to submit to a vote of confidence."
In this regard, she defended that "what we are very clear about is that if this initiative moves forward, the President of the Government has the obligation to submit to that vote of confidence because the Courts, the Congress that gives him support, will be giving him this indication."
In her opinion, "if he loses it in this week's vote, the President of the Government clearly has the obligation to submit to that vote of confidence and see if he really has parliamentary support or not."
A parliamentary support "that is evident that it does not have because it has been three years without a budget, it is evident that it does not have because it cannot pass laws or approve laws because it does not have a parliamentary majority to support its action of Government and it is evident that it does not have it due to corruption that suffocates it but that suffocates him and that suffocates all Spaniards in our day to day".
To conclude, the PP leader has stated that "so this can no longer go on. It is time for new elections and the time for all Spaniards to be able to give their opinion to have a new clean and decent Government that governs for and by Spaniards".