In an unexpected turn has been the PP, and not the alliance of We with the nationalists, who has asked this morning the postponement of the election of the Interior Minister, Jorge Fernandez Diaz, as the new chair of the Foreign Commission.
It has not been another alternative to the popular after the PSOE hardened its position in the last hours and threatened to present an alternative candidate if it went ahead with the proposal of the former minister.
The name proposed by the Socialists would have been imposed in the vote to Fernandez Diaz as it would have had the backing of WEO and the Catalan independence groups, ERC and the PDECAT (the old Convergence). And, according to the PSOE, it would be a temporary appointment since it would have resigned at the moment in which the PP had presented another candidate.
Before losing the vote, the popular have decided to postpone the election for now, although insisting that the former minister is his first option "today" for the chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
PP parliamentary spokesman Rafael Hernando argues that the postponement seeks to grant time to the PSOE and other groups to reconsider their rejection of Fernandez Diaz and comply with the institutional agreement reached between all groups for the distribution of the charges in the different commissions .
Nonetheless, the popular have tried in parallel to negotiate the appointment of the former minister as chairman of the Commission of the Court of Auditors as an alternative solution. But this maneuver has also been met with the frontal rejection of the Socialists, to further vilify the figure of the former minister.
Despite the PP's insistence on keeping Fernandez Diaz, the protagonist of the controversy has shown his willingness to abandon this battle. This morning, before the events, the former minister, visibly irritated with the PSOE, has stressed to the journalists in the corridors of the Congress that he has not requested any charge and does not want to be a problem for his parliamentary group.
The Bureau of the Foreign Affairs Committee will meet again next week to set a new date for the vote. Not surprisingly, this body has been left without a president after the third state authority, Jesus Posada, resigned last Monday to allow the landing of the former minister of the Interior.
The PSOE yields to pressure
However, the popular are not the only ones who have taken a step back this morning. The Socialists have ended up yielding to the pressure of We and the independentistas groups, that in the last days had asked him to step forward and to present an alternative candidate.
Something that yesterday at noon, the parliamentary spokesman of the Socialists, Antonio Hernando, had rejected sharply. The media pressure of some leftist media coupled with an acid commentary by the PSOE's former secretary general, Pedro Sánchez, through social networks did the rest.
As a side effect, Hernando is unauthorized. Yesterday, he defended that the existing institutional agreement allowed the PP to place the deputy of his choice at the head of the Foreign Commission. And that, as they did not like Fernandez Diaz, the furthest they would go would be to reject him by voting blank this morning during his election - there is no vote against in the voting of Commission presidents. He almost seemed to laugh at We's strategy. Today, his spokesman in the Foreign Affairs Commission has defended the opposite.
The PSOE thus is to blame for the postponement of the election of Fernandez Diaz. But it would not have been if he had not been spurred on by We. The formation, in tandem with the Catalan independence parties, had advanced its intention to arrive until the last consequences to prevent the appointment of Fernadnez Diaz.
As a first maneuver, we registered this morning a request for the Democratic Quality Commission to prepare a report on the suitability of the Catalan politician. He also tried to persuade the rest of the groups to get up before the vote to prevent it from being held for lack of a quorum, until the conclusions of this body were public.
Both ERC and PNV agreed yesterday but the PSOE was reluctant. The position of the Socialists was key because for Fernández Díaz to be elected, a minimum quorum of twenty MPs that PP, Citizens and UPN were not required was required. If the PSOE did not attend, the former minister could not be named. If it did it would leave chosen, with We and the independentistas attacking him like responsible subsidiary for having allowed it.
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