{"id":58613,"date":"2025-02-03T18:13:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T17:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=58613"},"modified":"2025-02-05T18:59:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T17:59:33","slug":"pp-psoe-pact-in-the-central-electoral-board-why-are-we-so-suspicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/02\/03\/pp-psoe-pact-in-the-central-electoral-board-why-are-we-so-suspicious\/","title":{"rendered":"PP-PSOE pact in the Central Electoral Board? Why are we so suspicious?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the responses that I find funniest when watching a movie is the one that says these words: \"this is not what it seems.\"<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"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\/\">The PP excludes Vox from the Congress Table: the fable of the scorpion and the frog again<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/06\/07\/the-deception-of-the-grand-coalition-of-brussels-that-only-vox-is-denouncing-in-spain\/\">The deception of the 'Grand Coalition' of Brussels that only Vox is denouncing in Spain<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Today, the five members representing Congress in the Central Electoral Board (JEC) were elected. <strong>Vox has been part of this electoral body since 2019<\/strong>, when it became the third most voted party, with 52 seats. However, <strong>today Vox has been excluded from the JEC<\/strong>, while the communists of Sumar, who are the fourth force, will be present in that body. The socialist newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/UL5nw\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">El Pa\u00eds has stated that Vox's exclusion is due to an agreement between the PP and PSOE<\/a>, with the consent of Sumar. The paradox is that <strong>the PSOE and Sumar, despite having fewer seats than those combined between the PP and Vox, will have a majority in the JEC<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If I'm not mistaken, in all the years of democracy in Spain <strong>this is the first time that the third most voted party has been excluded from the JEC but the fourth has not<\/strong>. It is a mockery of the principle of representativeness, but it is no surprise, considering that <a href=\"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\/\">in 2023 the same thing already happened in the Congress Table<\/a>, <strong>with the complicity of the PP<\/strong>. Sumar, with 31 seats, currently has two seats on that Table and Vox, with 33 seats, has no seats. <strong>This is how those who divide up the institutions, systematically excluding Vox from them, understand democracy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europapress.es\/nacional\/noticia-pp-niega-pacto-psoe-excluir-vox-junta-electoral-culpa-partidos-gobierno-20250203122053.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the PP has denied that there is any pact to exclude Vox from the JEC<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europapress.es\/nacional\/noticia-vox-insiste-culpar-pp-exclusion-junta-electoral-central-verguenza-20250203134943.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vox does not think the same<\/a> and blames the PP for its exclusion from that Board. Beyond the statements of each party, it is worth remembering one fact: <strong>in the last four years<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europapress.es\/nacional\/noticia-psoe-pp-pactan-nombramientos-tribunal-constitucional-tribunal-cuentas-defensor-pueblo-20211021212026.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the PP has agreed with the PSOE on the Court of Auditors, the office of the Ombudsman<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/29\/vox-explica-los-duros-ataques-del-pp-han-dejado-a-pedro-sanchez-que-controle-el-tc\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Constitutional Court<\/a> (handing over their control of the socialists) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/10\/the-step-that-pp-and-psoe-should-take-after-agreeing-on-the-cgpj-and-the-electoral-board\/\">the General Council of the Judiciary<\/a>, in addition to the aforementioned Congress Board. <strong>All these agreements were made excluding Vox.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/18\/von-der-leyens-re-election-good-news-for-sanchez-and-bad-news-for-spain\/\">the European People's Party has repeated its \"grand coalition\" with the socialists in Brussels<\/a>, a coalition that has existed for decades (although many voters of both parties seem to be unaware of this). In addition to this, <a href=\"https:\/\/gaceta.es\/europa\/la-coalicion-entre-populares-y-socialistas-se-salta-el-reglamento-para-excluir-a-vox-y-a-su-grupo-patriotas-de-los-puestos-clave-del-parlamento-europeo-20241022-1207\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this coalition has violated the regulations of the European Parliament to exclude the Vox group<\/a> (which is the third in number of seats) <strong>from all the bodies of that legislative chamber<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Given these precedents, <strong>how can we be so suspicious as to believe in a new PP-PSOE pact to exclude Vox?<\/strong> How can we be so suspicious as to believe that the PP is part of the anti-democratic cordon of the left against Vox? <strong>Now they will tell us, once again, that \"this is not what it seems.\"<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/populares\/53412784217\/in\/dateposted\/\">Partido Popular<\/a>. Reuni\u00f3n del presidente del Partido Popular, Alberto N\u00fa\u00f1ez Feij\u00f3o, con el secretario general del Partido Socialista, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, el 21 de diciembre de 2023.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the responses that I find funniest when watching a movie is the one that says these words: \u00abthis is not what it seems.\u00bb<\/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":[10398],"tags":[22281,641,693,11462,16942,7535],"class_list":["post-58613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","tag-central-electoral-board-spain","tag-partido-popular","tag-psoe","tag-spain","tag-sumar","tag-vox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58613"}],"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=58613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}