Pedro Sánchez lands after several weeks of international activity and asks to appear in the Chambers to fully launch the electoral campaign. He will do so in Congress next week, on Wednesday the 19th, and in the Senate seven days later, on the 25th.
Officially, La Moncloa states that the objective of both meetings is to report on the situation of the conflict in Ukraine, explain the conclusions of the last European Council and address the new framework for relations between Spain and Morocco one year after the de facto transfer of the Sahara to the Alawite regime.
In the case of the Senate, the agenda is qualified to emphasize the plans put in place by the Executive to alleviate the social and economic consequences of the war in the different territories and foreseeably to begin to outline new measures and aid that will be they would activate for the second half of the year and pave the way for the general elections in December.
In the Government they have sought the most appropriate moment, probably one of the last possible ones, to substantiate these appearances, taking into account that in the first week of May there are no plenary sessions and, afterwards, the political formations plunge fully into the campaign for the municipal and regional elections on May 28.
The president’s first appointment in Congress will foreseeably take place one day after the reform, in its criminal aspects, of the law of only yes is yes is finally confirmed in the Justice Commission, and one day before the modification obtain, with the support of the PP, the approval of the plenary session of the Chamber.
The circle of the reform will be completely closed the following week in the Senate, also coinciding with the appearance that the president has requested in the Upper House and in which all the spotlights will be on because, without a doubt, it will be interpreted as an electoral debate between Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
The fact that both appointments take place when the disastrous effects of the only yes is yes law are already on the way to a definitive solution, draws a favorable framework for Sánchez in principle because it will neutralize the continuous criticism to which the Government has been subjected by the opposition on account of a norm sold as the paradigm of the protection of women and that, nevertheless, has had as its first result more than 800 sentence reductions and dozens of releases of sexual offenders.
Undoubtedly, the president will have to assume that the law has been a fiasco and also that its modification has only been able to be carried out by the right hand, but, once the expiation of the fault has been consummated, he will try to consider the problem settled. although the sentence reductions and releases that have already taken place cannot be reversed.
Beyond the bitter pill of the yes is yes law, the President of the Government will undoubtedly have the opportunity to value his international activity, his efforts before the rest of the European partners with a view to the semester of the Spanish Presidency of the EU and, above all, his visit to the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, with whom he had a long conversation, not very detailed, on account of the war in Ukraine. Likewise, he will be able to display the latest economic and employment data and insist that if, despite the pandemic and the war, the Spanish economy recovers, “with the wind in its favor” unknown levels of progress could be achieved.
With these arguments, he will try, especially in the Senate, to tarnish the image of Feijóo, a politician who, from the socialist ranks, tries to present himself as “insolvent”.
The president’s two appearances should also serve to appease the wave of criticism and discontent that the announced visit of the Emeritus to Spain will undoubtedly arouse in the field of the left after meeting in private with King Charles III of England. A leisure visit decided by Juan Carlos I without the prior agreement of either Zarzuela or Moncloa and which, without a doubt, will arouse enormous media attention. Put to compete for the interest of the public, in this field Sánchez in Congress and in the Senate probably has the odds to lose.
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