Pedro Sanchez for a breakfast briefing yesterday in Madrid. / Fernando Alvarado (AP)
The solemn proclamation of the secretary general of the PSOE, Pedro Sanchez, that can not be delegated “in spare time”, reaching the constituency on Thursday and engaging in “their business on days off,” has caused a stir and some discomfort in the ranks of the Socialist Group. The socialist leader ordered yesterday the presentation at the Congress of a proposition of law that incompatibilities Members harden. The discomfort is because very few socialists have a different activity to the deputy. At the beginning of the current legislature, Congress authorized 130 deputies, 350, to keep other activity. The situations are very different because many of them are unpaid. In this block only authorized thirty are socialists and among them is Pedro Sanchez, who asked Congress for authorization to teach at the private University Camilo José Cela in Madrid, giving lectures and participate in political gatherings.
Being elected secretary general of the PSOE on 27 July, has given up on these activities, which did not involve too much time and by receiving a meager monetary compensation. Although this information is public, because it is in the web of Congress, not mentioned in his lecture Wednesday at the Forum Europa.
In your environment acknowledged yesterday that, indeed, he did not say, but in his mind has always been personally set the tone by giving up other activities. “The changes begin in the first person,” he told El Pais. He also stressed that all activities are declared in Congress that “began to be delegated as a teacher, and not vice versa.” So much so that even the campaign against Eduardo Madina and Jose Antonio Perez Tapias by the Secretary General of the PSOE took him with grading examinations.
In an effort to turn around the way we do politics proposes to prohibit any activity and if you attend any related political responsibility, “for example attend gatherings or working with media, may not receive remuneration.” That’s what he said in the Forum Europe and that has caused discomfort in your group. Why? Respondents participating in gatherings deputies said they did not receive monetary compensation. The emphasis placed by the Secretary-General on the need for parliamentarians not distracted with other duties deemed an unfair warning
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Most members of the PSOE only dedicated Congress
Another source of discomfort is the possible extension of doubt about the dedication of the deputies. Those who do have another task congressional authorization. Because Sanchez had, and, above all, very few socialists would be in that block. Ironically a socialist deputy nailed the feelings of many of his companions. “A value judgment of that nature messes all caste, Pablo Iglesias would say, the one can, not ours”
Far the intention of Pedro Sánchez de offend his parliamentary group, as stated in their environment. Still, the Socialists would have liked that there was widespread. The proposal was recorded yesterday in Congress is for “all deputies and senators devote exclusively to their duties of political representation,” Sanchez said. “The will to all groups but if they do not approve my group will ask us to apply in person,” he said in his announcement. The anonymous response yesterday was that the vast majority have nothing to give. Others, for example, who teach at the university and for which they were qualified, as the Secretary-General himself will have a problem because the course has begun. Among the comments of the Socialists’ puritanism “the most socialist leaders who have been placed so far and Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba head protruding. He resigned from the compensation he was entitled to leave the government on the grounds that he had a job and salary, deputy
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Socialist promotes hardening incompatibilities
At the moment the initiative launched yesterday by the Socialist Group will be reviewed by the Popular Party, in principle, framed in the package of democratic regeneration is in discussion with the PSOE and the rest of the groups.
The fate of the initiative of the Socialist Group is to be determined but may not fall on deaf ears and the Electoral Act and the Regulations be amended Congress to “extend the scheme incompatibility”. It will be essential another which points is attributed to the Status Committee Deputy ability to check the veracity of statements on activities and assets of Members
The background of the initiative is accepted by most group. Less rebellious recognize that perhaps should have been more precise because inadvertently injured many socialist deputies. Neither liked him, and that was quite widespread, that the day before the state funeral propose for women killed by “macho terrorism.” Then I nuance. Yes there is widespread agreement that in the new direction must be more precise proposals
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