Allies abandon Prime Minister Sánchez: ‘He should step aside, just like Starmer’
This was stated by Mirian Nouguera, the parliamentary spokesperson for Junts per Catalunya
“Today, he has neither the majority nor the legitimacy to hold power. He should step aside and let this Parliament appoint someone who does have the ability to fulfil” the agreements “with Catalonia and the Catalans”.
This was stated by the parliamentary spokesperson for Junts per Catalunya, Mirian Nouguera, addressing the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, during the parliamentary debate on the legal cases plaguing the Socialist Party and the government. The party led by Carles Puigdemont, whose seven MPs are crucial to the progressive majority, accused Sánchez of being “politically tainted and finished”, calling on him to step down. It cited the example of the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, who, “unlike you, has a very large majority and has resigned”, thereby suggesting the possibility that Sánchez might make way for “an independent candidate” to stand for a vote in Parliament.
An alternative scenario to a motion of no confidence that might be tabled by the Partido Popular and Vox in the opposition. “Her political career is over,” added Ione Belarra, secretary of the radical left-wing party Podemos. Along the same lines, Maribel Vaquero, spokesperson for the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), said: “We are not here to defend her and her people,” whilst ruling out, however, that the PNV would support any motion of no confidence tabled by the right-wing parties.
