“Long live love!” It has been one of the phrases that has been heard in the courtyard of Congress when the vote on the amendments to the sustainable mobility law has revealed that the PP deputy Guillemo Mariscal was absent because he was on his honeymoon. An event of these characteristics is not valid to request a telematic vote and, without that 'no' – and if no one else failed – the rule with which Spain gambles with 10,000 million of the recovery funds would go ahead. Even so, the Government has called for rebuttal so that no one is missing. Pedro Sánchez has returned to Congress nine hours after the control session and after traveling to Cáceres to visit the construction of a highway.
The Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, was also at that call and hours later he arrived at Parliament to attend the vote on the amendments to the law, which has been negotiated until the last moment with Podemos, whose abstention was necessary for it to go ahead, because Mariscal's absence had been rendered void after a failure in the telematic vote: that of the PNV deputy Mikel Legarda, who was unable to vote. A deputy from Sumar and another from the PSOE exchanged worried faces after learning this information: Podemos was once again decisive and the agreement was not closed. 170 to 170 in the absence of the daisy from Belarra.