The PP and Vox have collided frontally on Tuesday at the Madrid Assembly, when the Ultra party has tried to summon the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, for the February 12 session that investigates the alleged favor of favor received by the wife of the wife of the Chief of the Executive, by the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). Thus, the agency’s table, which dominate conservatives with an absolute majority, has dismissed the request of the training led by Isabel Pérez Moñino, considering that the regulation breached, since that day is reserved for entrepreneurs. In this way, Vox has lost the only opportunity to summon someone to the commission, so that the PP will be the only party to call Sánchez for February 19, when in principle the investigation will end. In the event that he does, the president will not have the obligation to go.
“The Popular Party has yielded to the pressure of the Moncloa and has inadmitted the request presented by Vox that it is Pedro Sánchez who comes to appear in his quota to the session that will be held on February 12,” a Extreme right -wing party source. “The Popular Party thus gives an oxygen ball to Pedro Sánchez, at the most complicated moment of the legislature,” he added. “Vox, meanwhile, will continue to request the extension of the Investigation Commission until Pedro Sánchez appears.”
However, a second interlocutor aware of what happened at the meeting, and unrelated to the two games faced by the call of Sánchez, offers a very different story. This source recalls that the peculiar operation model chosen for this research forces the parties to stick to specific professions or specialties to choose who calls for each session of the commission. And he argues that in this case he had to call entrepreneurs, so Sánchez had no place.
“Vox wanted to liar, and they are not right,” says this politician with gallons in the camera. “It was the PP to activate an appearing party, and he has done so. Then he touched the PSOE, who has argued that he had no businessman in his list of appearing parties, so he could not activate any appearance. He has played the PP again, which has activated a second appearing. It was then Vox’s turn, and Vox has said that he wanted to activate Pedro Sánchez, ”he added. “Obviously, the table has said that he is president of the Government and Vox has asked to find out if he is part of any board of directors, to summon him as an entrepreneur,” he said. “That would be to twist too much, although the table will find out.”
In any case, it is highly unlikely that both Sánchez and his subordinates of the Central Executive go to the Chamber in the event that their appearances for February 19 are activated in the PP. Sometimes precedents, the representatives of the state administration have declined the call of other regional chambers with the argument that they must account for Congress and the Senate, but not before regional parliaments. A decision endorsed by different opinions of the State Council.
The works of the Investigation Commission focus on the professional relationship between Gómez and the UCM, which began in 2012 and ended in 2024, when, in the midst of the judicial investigation, the university canceled as the wife of Sánchez taught. In this way, Gomez appeared until last year on the website of the educational center as co -director of UNA. In the latter it also appeared as.
Legality of the works
When the work started, the PP was especially interested in using the assembly’s research commission to put Gomez’s relationship with the rector under the sources, and in which it was explained what criteria was applied so that Gomez direct the chair, without having Higher degree, and the relationship with the companies that financed it.
During his appearance in the commission, in mid -November, on the creation of the Competitive Social Transformation Chair given by Gómez (“everything was absolutely legal and regular”); He denied any favor treatment (“Of course not (…) there was no pressure”); And Gómez’s works of any influence of President Sánchez disnunculated.
For his part, the Vice Chancellor for Planning, Coordination and Institutional Relations, José María Coello de Portugal, was also overwhelming: “There is no doubt about legality,” he said during his appearance in the commission on studies organized by Gomez in the UCM.
