The PP will take to the Senate the disapproval of five ministers for their management in Ceuta and will raise a conflict of powers

The Popular Party has announced this Sunday that it will take to the next plenary session of the Senate on Wednesday, September 8, the disapprovals of five ministers - the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, the Minister of Defence, Margarita Robles, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, the Minister of Health, Mónica García, and the Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo - for their management in Ceuta. Alberto Núñez-Feijóo's party will also raise a new conflict of powers due to "the repeated absences of the Government in the Senate", which represents the first step to elevate this conflict to the Constitutional Court.

The spokesperson for the PP in the Upper House, Alicia García, stated in a press release distributed this Sunday that “the empty chairs of the ministers cannot go unpunished” and that they will continue to “take the Government's decision to hide from the Senate and flee from the Spaniards to court.” This conflict of powers means posing a kind of clash between constitutional bodies of the State that, if not resolved within a month, will end up in the court headed by Cándido Conde-Pumpido.

García defines as a “real shame” the “incompetence” of Marlaska, Albares and Robles who, he says, preferred to “escape” from the Senate to give their explanations in Congress, the chamber that, according to him, “suits them, on the date that suits them and in the conditions that suit them.” During the month of August, the PP had summoned those responsible for the Interior, Foreign Affairs and Defense in the context of what was happening in Ceuta, but they decided to appear in Congress where they explained what their management had been like.

Feijóo's party has already appealed to the Supreme Court requesting as a precautionary measure that the Government be ordered to ensure that the ministers appear within a maximum period of 24 hours. But the vacation chamber of the high court denied this request as it was not "sufficiently justified that the parliamentary control that the appellants" linked to the "effective exercise" of their work as senators and which is included in article 23 of the Constitution, should "necessarily occur, to be effective, within the extraordinary period of the month of August."

The party now clings to article 110.1 of the Magna Carta, which allows both chambers to demand the presence of members of the Government, in addition to article 66.2 of the Senate Regulations, which establishes that members of the Executive are obliged to appear. It's not an invitation. It is not an institutional courtesy. It is a constitutional and parliamentary obligation," the spokesperson stressed. "The Government cannot unilaterally choose which Chamber controls it, when it appears or under what conditions it does so. "Whoever is subject to parliamentary control cannot choose who controls him," he emphasizes.