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Another provocative vote. Let us now turn to the Audiovisual Law. Once again, the Government found itself at odds with its partners and, this time, also with itself. The PSOE and Unidas Podemos were divided with a vote in favor and an abstention, respectively, despite the fact that it is a law that it sponsored through the executive itself.
This is how the vote turned out: 130 yes (PSOE, PNV, CC, NC, PRC), no (Vox, ERC, EH Bildu, Junts, Más País, PDeCAT) and 131 abstentions (PP, Unidas Podemos, Ciudadanos).
Thus, the abstention of the PP has been decisive for the executive to have managed to approve the audiovisual law in Congress. However, this numerical victory has consequences for the PSOE, since it has opened a new crisis with its allies ERC and EH Bildu, with whom it accepts as true with is increasingly eroded by the Pegasus affair, and an internal clash in the coalition with Unidas Podemos.
The turn that put the law in a tricky scenario and left it in the hands of the PP occurred at the end of its treatment, when the PSOE brought a last-minute auction that put the producers and the world of cinema in the wake of the war. More than 350 directors, independent producers and actors have signed a manifesto, headed by Pedro Almodóvar, Paco León, Icíar Bollaín and Antonio Resines. His complaint is that the replacement of a single word will allow large corporations (Atresmedia and Mediaset) the quota reserved for independent production, which exposes this sector to a “deadly” risk.
This amendment has “destroyed”, in the words of ERC, the pact signed between the government and its investiture partners. And that has led many of them to go from voting in favour to voting against in a matter of hours, putting the approval of the text against the ropes. Among them, Unidas Podemos, which maintains that the law will serve the interests of “the olipasspolia of the 4 primary chains”.
The agreement reached after tortuous negotiations last autumn, when ERC and EH Bildu forced the Government to settle for certain needs of law to approve the General State Budget. languages (Catalan, Basque and Galician) on the main audiovisual platforms (Netflix, HBO Max and Disney).
This is the moment this month when the PP has prevented a basic government law from being repealed through its own parliamentary allies. Now the audiovisual law has passed thanks to an abstention, but on May 2 it also did so with the law. on national security, voting against an amendment to the totality presented through ERC. Likewise, the PP also recently assisted the executive when it voted against the creation of a commission of inquiry into the Pegasus case.
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