{"id":52738,"date":"2023-08-17T18:15:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T16:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=52738"},"modified":"2024-08-17T00:09:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T22:09:44","slug":"the-pp-excludes-vox-from-the-congress-table-the-fable-of-the-scorpion-and-the-frog-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/08\/17\/the-pp-excludes-vox-from-the-congress-table-the-fable-of-the-scorpion-and-the-frog-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The PP excludes Vox from the Congress Table: the fable of the scorpion and the frog again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I spoke to you here about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/07\/30\/the-fable-of-the-bigmouth-scorpion-that-told-the-frog-that-it-would-kill-it-crossing-the-river\/\">the fable of the scorpion and the frog<\/a>, a story about trust and evil.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/08\/16\/two-examples-of-the-oratory-of-pepa-millan-the-possible-spokesperson-of-vox-in-the-congress\/\">Two examples of the oratory of Pepa Mill\u00e1n, the new spokesperson of Vox in the Congress<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/07\/30\/the-fable-of-the-bigmouth-scorpion-that-told-the-frog-that-it-would-kill-it-crossing-the-river\/\">The fable of the bigmouth scorpion that told the frog that it would kill it crossing the river<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>In this story, <strong>a scorpion asks a frog to help it cross a river<\/strong>, since the arthropod does not know how to swim. She shows her reluctance, as she knows the nature of the scorpion, and <strong>refuses, claiming that the scorpion will sting her and kill her<\/strong>. The scorpion tries to dissuade the frog and in the end convinces it by saying that <strong>it would be absurd for him to kill her, since they would both drown in the river.<\/strong> The frog agrees to cross the river with the scorpion, he sticks his poisonous sting. The frog asks him why, since they will both drown, and <strong> the scorpion justifies himself by telling him that it is in her nature to do that <\/strong>, that she knows no other way to act.<\/p>\n<p><big>For the first time the third most voted party is left out of the Table<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Ten days ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/08\/07\/con-su-gesto-de-generosidad-y-de-patriotismo-vox-pone-a-feijoo-y-al-pp-en-una-encrucijada\/\">Vox offered the PP its support for the investiture of Feij\u00f3o<\/a>, support without conditions and in exchange for nothing in order to <em>\"avoid a government of national destruction\".<\/em> <strong>This generosity of Vox has been responded by the PP with a new affront.<\/strong> This morning, before the constitution of the Board of the Congress of Deputies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elmundo.es\/espana\/2023\/08\/17\/64dde57efc6c8337738b459e.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the PP has informed Vox that it would leave them out of the Table<\/a>, where during the last legislature Vox had a vice presidency, in the hands of Ignacio Gil L\u00e1zaro. Faced with this new betrayal by the PP, both parties have voted exclusively for their respective candidates.<\/p>\n<p>In this way, the PP will have four seats on the Table, the PSOE three and Sumar two. <strong>It is the first time that the third party with the most votes has been left out of the Congressional Table<\/strong> in all the years that we have had democracy in Spain. The paradox arises that <strong>the fourth party, Sumar, will have two positions, and the third, Vox, will have none<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><big>In Vox they are \"perplexed\" and leave their support for the investiture of Feij\u00f3o up in the air<\/big><\/p>\n<p>In a press conference (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vox_es\/status\/1692170258768187482\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">you can see the video here<\/a>), the president of Vox, <strong>Santiago Abascal, has commented on Vox's exclusion from the Table, stating that \"we are somewhat perplexed\"<\/strong>, questioning whether leaving Spain's third political force out of the Table <em>\"is to recover democratic normality and the neutrality of the institutions\"<\/em>. <strong>Abascal criticized the PP's decision:<\/strong> <em>\"they have made a historic decision in Spain: never has a political force like Vox, with 33 seats, been off the table of Congress.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Likewise, <strong>the leader of Vox has left Vox's announced support for the investiture of Feij\u00f3o on air<\/strong>, waiting to receive explanations from the Popular Party for its decision to exclude Vox from the Board of the Congress.<\/p>\n<p><big>A clumsy and absurd decision of the PP<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The PP's decision to leave Vox off the Congress table is especially incomprehensible if we take into account that <strong>Feij\u00f3o needs Vox's support for the investiture <\/strong>. The PP has not made even the slightest effort to capture that support. On the contrary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vozpopuli.com\/espana\/pp-ofrece-pnv-puesto.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the PP offered the PNV separatists a position on the Congress Table<\/a>, <strong>in order to obtain the support of his five deputies<\/strong> for the investiture of Feij\u00f3o. The message that the PP seems to convey is that <strong>it considers the 275,000 votes of the PNV more valuable than the 3 million votes of Vox.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What happened this morning is yet another example of <strong>the PP acting like a scorpion in Spanish politics<\/strong>, irrationally harming the only ones willing to offer their support, even if the result is also harming the chances of governing for the PP own. Perhaps Feij\u00f3o's party <strong>is excessively confident that his media will manipulate the scene to always present Vox as the culprit<\/strong>, and he believes that this will be the only message that will reach his voters and Vox voters .<\/p>\n<p>The obvious problem for the PP is that there are still media outlets in Spain that do not follow the slogans of that party. For this reason, <strong>today the PP maneuver has been exposed as yet another example of determination to divide the opposition to the left<\/strong>, at a time when the unity of action of the PP and Vox were very necessary to stop the new alliance between the socialists, the separatists and the extreme left. <strong>Sadly, it seems that the PP continues to believe that its greatest enemy is Vox, and not the left or the separatists.<\/strong> An idea from which the enemies of Spain and Liberty benefit.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/184387553@N07\/53123171575\/in\/dateposted\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vox Congreso<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I spoke to you here about the fable of the scorpion and the frog, a story about trust and evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10398],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}