The initiative was presented jointly by all parliamentary groups except the PP (center-right), which exercises the Government of Spain in office since legislative elections last December 20 that left
highly fragmented and without clear majorities Congress. for more than three months ago the Cabinet chaired Mariano Rajoy it is functioning with limited dispatching current business and that is the argument used to deny that ministers attend sessions control skills.
Several ministers have not attended hearings in committee to which they were summoned to understand that they have no accountability to a House that no longer corresponds to the majority who gave birth in 2011 to the Executive of the PP.
that the Executive functions are subject to control of Congress” goes against all the reports and precedents of this House “, defended the vice president, Soraya Saenz de Santamaria.
opposition groups agreed today on the floor of Congress to present to the Constitutional Court a writ of powers against the government, aimed at the Cabinet rectified.
However, and before conflict of powers formally reaches the TC, the caretaker government has one month to respond the request of Congress and revoke its decision not to submit to the control of the House.
“Rebeldía declared” and “contempt” PSOE
spokesman PSOE, Antonio Hernando, argued that the “rebellion declared” by the caretaker government and his “contempt” for accountable to citizens calls into question the functioning of the constitutional system.
by contrast, PP deputy Jose Antonio Bermudez de Castro said that the “true intent” of the initiative is “wear” the Government of Mariano Rajoy and lead to the House “to a scenario pre-campaign” against “all legal precedents and parliamentarians.
the PP won the elections in December with 123 seats. In the previous elections in 2011 he won 186, which allowed him to rule with absolute majority. The lack of agreement between the parties has led to over a hundred after the elections Spain lacks a government full powers and if before May 2 there is no new Cabinet other elections on June 26 will be called.
the only attempt so far to elect a chief executive, the socialist Pedro Sanchez, failed in two votes in early March, as only he could get support from liberal Citizens, to achieve 131 seats of 350 in the House.
“the caretaker government must it be more subject than ever to parliamentary scrutiny because its legitimacy is undermined,” defended today Sánchez . “A caretaker government is not uncontrolled government.”
Rajoy today came to report on the EU summit on refugees after having initially denied this, his first appearance since the election, but it seems he intends to respond to the control session the Speaker of the House has been set for April 20.
on Thursday representatives of both parties will meet with Podemos (left, 69 seats) to see if there are possibilities to create a majority government before May 2.
the tensions between citizens and can complicate this scenario, as both favor a coalition government with the socialists but in which no other party representatives. The lack of majorities has been little activity in Congress since last January 13 the current legislature opening.
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