This year, with the excuse of the late inauguration of Pedro S\u00e1nchez, the socialists have had Congress without activity for months.<\/p>\n
During the previous legislature, S\u00e1nchez and his fellow members often demonstrated their disdain for parliamentary control<\/strong>, using Congress as if it were a rally of the Socialist Party (PSOE) instead of as a platform to respond to the opposition's questions. Despite this, the socialists found themselves with a tough nut to crack, the Vox parliamentary group<\/strong>, then led by Iv\u00e1n Espinosa de los Monteros, an excellent orator who masterfully combines wit with irony.<\/p>\n The abandonment of politics by Iv\u00e1n Espinosa de los Monteros left Vox without a spokesperson. His place was taken by a 28-year-old lawyer who had already been a senator: Pepa Mill\u00e1n<\/strong>. In the Upper House, this young Andalusian woman had already had notable interventions, and now she has become a cross for the government in Congress<\/strong>, as we saw this Wednesday in the first executive control session in this legislature.<\/p>\n Pepa Mill\u00e1n took the floor to ask the government a question about the separation of powers and the neutrality of institutions<\/strong>, two elements of our democratic framework that the socialists are demolishing. Minister F\u00e9lix Bola\u00f1os used<\/strong> his intervention<\/a> to attack the opposition<\/strong> and to boast of being a democrat, without answering the question. This is what S\u00e1nchez and his cabinet colleagues did throughout the previous legislature. <\/p>\n If Bola\u00f1os thought he was satisfied with his reply, he could not have been more wrong. In his response to the minister, Mill\u00e1n began to list examples of the PSOE's assaults on the institutions, in a brilliant and devastating intervention<\/strong> that left Bola\u00f1os as a simple amateur in that beautiful art of argument. Here you can see the video of Pepa Mill\u00e1n's intervention<\/strong> (the video is in Spanish, you can activate the automatic English subtitles in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n
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