In his failed investiture, Alberto Núñez Feijóo was unable to debate with Pedro Sánchez, so yesterday was the time to hold the face-to-face longed for by the leader of the PP, with whom he will assume the presidency of the Spanish Government tomorrow.
Feijóo had prepared a very harsh speech after the text of the amnesty law was made public, but, once he heard Sánchez’s intervention, he redoubled his force. To the president of the PP, the candidate’s first intervention, as he said, with “so much frivolity, so much provocation and so much insult”, caused him great concern. “What was heard today was not a speech, it was delirium”. For Feijóo, Sánchez “has lost his mind, but most Spaniards have not”.
Therefore, borrowing the words and intentions of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, he returned “blow by blow”. Nothing was left in the ink.
He began by considering that the investiture “was born of a fraud”, because there was no vote at the polls, and he asked again, perhaps for the last time, that the Spanish can express themselves at the polls. An investiture that, in his opinion, arises from “political corruption”, such as making decisions against the general interest “in exchange for personal benefits”, and will not go ahead for having obtained support, but, said Feijóo, “he bought them, which is very different”. “Signing checks that we will all pay”, he assured.
A review of an investiture that Sánchez presented leaving the amnesty in a secondary place, which is why the president of the PP took it upon himself to put it in the foreground from the beginning of the intervention: “No to the amnesty. Not to ignore the victims of separatism. Not to overlook Russian interference in our affairs. Not in Bildu. Not to the fact that a few decide for everyone. No to a truncated democracy. No to lies and no to inequality. In short: no to Pedro Sánchez”.
Feijóo rebelled against the conception that derives from the political agreements initialed by the PSOE, the idea that “Spain is an oppressive state” or that “Spanish justice practices dirty war”.
Spain, Feijóo stressed, does not have to apologize to anyone, if anything, Sánchez will have to apologize “to the Catalan constitutionalists that he ignores as if they didn’t exist, to the security forces who risked their lives, to the prosecutors and the judges who looked after the constitutional order, the Spaniards to whom he has lied, his voters and, incidentally, himself”.
Sánchez is, for Feijóo, “the problem, because of his lack of words, his absence of moral restrictions and his pathological ambition”, to the point that he thinks that, while the candidate and predictable new president from today ” continues on the political scene, Spain will be condemned to division”. “This will be his legacy”, and he predicted that his time as president of the Spanish Government will remain “the memory of Puigdemont arriving in Catalonia without any reprimand”, and for that, he said, “to you, history, will not amnesty him”.
The president of the PP asked himself what the next transfer will be – he is convinced that there will be one – and addressed the pro-independence parties to warn them that they may end up being the victims: “With Sánchez you never know”, he warned, at the same time he asked them to clarify if, as Sánchez says, “all their political action is governed by their deep love for Spain”, and if it is true, he asked, “that they have returned to the Constitution”.
In this sense, he wondered if, in particular, Junts and the PNB share the left-wing program defended by Sánchez and Sumar and he predicted that all the votes that the PNB will lose with this alliance will be won by the PP in the Basque Country.
