{"id":229334,"date":"2025-07-01T12:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T12:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/229334\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T12:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T12:55:14","slug":"spains-right-eyes-no-confidence-vote-as-sanchez-ally-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/229334\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s right eyes no-confidence vote as S\u00e1nchez ally jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nMADRID \u2013 Spain\u2019s conservative opposition leader Alberto N\u00fa\u00f1ez Feij\u00f3o said on Tuesday that his party will soon begin testing whether S\u00e1nchez\u2019s allies might back a no-confidence vote against the prime minister.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

Feij\u00f3o’s move comes a day after a judge ordered the preventive imprisonment of Santos Cerd\u00e1n, S\u00e1nchez\u2019s PSOE’s number two,\u00a0<\/strong>citing flight risk, in connection with a major corruption scandal that has rocked the Socialist party for the past two weeks.<\/p>\n

“His number two has slept in prison, but S\u00e1nchez intends to continue. It is unsustainable”, Feij\u00f3o said<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n

Feij\u00f3o has also tasked the People’s Party’s (PP)’s parliamentary spokeperson, Miguel Tellado,\u00a0with contacting the groups propping up S\u00e1nchez\u2019s government to ask whether they still stand behind him.<\/p>\n

“Right now they are the only obstacle for Spaniards to speak, and we can repair so much decadence,” he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nGovernment spokesperson Pilar Alegr\u00eda ruled out PSOE\u2019s involvement in the Supreme Court ruling that jailed Cerd\u00e1n, saying: “There are no indications to that effect,” El Pa\u00eds reported<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

Exploiting Puigdemont\u2019s discontent
\nS\u00e1nchez governs with a precarious majority through a coalition between the PSOE and the left-wing platform Sumar, backed in turn by a patchwork of nationalist and separatist parties. <\/p>\n

\nThese include the Catalan separatist JxCat, led by former regional president Carles Puigdemont, and their left-wing rivals ERC, as well as the Basque nationalist PNV and the radical left-wing EH Bildu \u2013 which many on the right consider the political heir of ETA.\n<\/p>\n

\nAmong the promises S\u00e1nchez made to JxCat in exchange for their votes, and which Santos Cerd\u00e1n himself negotiated in Switzerland, is a controversial amnesty law for those implicated in the serious secessionist attempt of October 2017 in Catalonia, including Puigdemont, currently in self-exile in Waterloo, near Brussels.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\nOn several occasions, the former Catalan president has stated that the agreement between the PSOE and JxCat \u2013 negotiated by Cerd\u00e1n himself \u2013 was not being respected, adding<\/a> S\u00e1nchez “cannot be trusted.”\n<\/p>\n

Left wants full accountability<\/p>\n

The backlash hasn\u2019t come only from the right. PSOE’s ally Sumar, and the broader Spanish left, including radical party Podemos, have demanded \u201cexemplary\u201d measures\u00a0in response to the scandal.<\/p>\n

“Seeing Cerd\u00e1n go to jail is a disgrace. The situation is very serious. We have to act now,” said Labour Minister and former Sumar leader Yolanda D\u00edaz on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

In response to the escalating crisis, D\u00edaz announced that Vice-President Mar\u00eda Jes\u00fas Montero (PSOE), and Culture Minister and Sumar spokesman Ernest Urtasun will meet in parliament on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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