The PP spokesperson in the Senate, Alicia García, has described this Saturday as "unheard of" that the Second Vice President and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, has urged her party to promote a motion of no confidence "against her own Government" and has stressed that "at this moment" the 'populars' rule out resorting to that constitutional mechanism because they do not want to "give a victory" to President Pedro Sánchez.
García has spoken thus to journalists before joining the march called to demand Sánchez's resignation, which has departed from Madrid's Plaza de Colón and is heading towards the Arco de la Victoria, in the vicinity of La Moncloa Palace.
The PP leader has remarked that her party lacks "four votes" to reach the absolute majority in Congress required to pass a motion of no confidence, so that, for now, it does not contemplate activating the initiative that Vox demands from it. "We have the desire, but we lack votes. At this moment we are not going to give a victory to Pedro Sánchez with a failed motion in any case," García concluded.
In this scenario, she has again addressed the Executive's parliamentary partners so that they decide until when they will continue "being accomplices of corruption". "They will know because when the ballot boxes are set up it will be for everyone," warned the PP spokesperson in the Upper House.
APPEARANCES IN THE SENATE IN JULY
For now, the PP focuses its efforts on demanding explanations for the alleged cases of corruption through the investigation committees opened in the Senate and which, according to García, will be enabled to continue with the interrogations during the month of July.
In the new list of attendees approved this week, the PP has included Zapatero's secretary, María Gertrudis Alcázar; the current governor of the Bank of Spain and former Minister of Inclusion and Social Security, José Manuel Escrivá; Cristóbal Cano, whom they define as "manager" of businessman Julio Martínez, and Manuel Aarón Fajardo, whom they point to as Zapatero's "lieutenant" in Venezuela.
Furthermore, the 'populars' keep open the possibility of re-summoning the former president, his daughters, or President Pedro Sánchez himself to the Senate, whom García has described as Zapatero's "political godson". "He is the political responsible, he is the cover-up, because without him nothing would have been possible," she concluded.