This Wednesday, Alberto Núñez Feijóo starred in the New Economy Forum’s Barcelona Tribune informative breakfast, at the Palace hotel in the Catalan capital, where he announced that what Catalonia needs is “a revolution of truth”, an approach that has led him to appeal to the PSC voters to tell them that they gave victory to a party that, in their opinion, is currently negotiating the opposite of what it promised in the campaign and to those of Junts, who did not choose that ballot so that the government could apply the economic policy “radical” of Podemos.
“Sánchez’s inauguration is the clearest expression that the Government has intervened in Congress,” stated Feijóo, who also made light of the decision to eliminate flights for those journeys that can be made by high-speed train in less than two hours: “I don’t know if the airlift is going to be suspended or not, but if it is suspended, it is clear that flights in Falcon and Super Puma will also be prohibited,” he said, referring to the plane and helicopter used by the head of the Executive on some of his trips.
The president of the PP has acknowledged that he negotiated with Junts, because “Junts wanted to speak” and because it was his obligation to “contact” this independence party when he was seeking his investiture, but that the formation of Carles Puigdemont required, in addition to the official status of the Catalan in the European Parliament and in the Congress of Deputies, the approval of an amnesty law, a red line that he did not cross, considering it “nonsense” and, furthermore, “immoral.” A “transaction”, more than a “reconciliation”, to which he is willing, in his opinion, Pedro Sánchez to continue being the President of the Government.
Following this line of argument, Feijóo has defined Sánchez as a “supporting actor” who is waiting for the director to tell him whether or not to enter the scene in a play in which the protagonists are the independentists and the President of the Government aspires only to safeguard their “personal interest”. “There is no ethics, but arithmetic, there is no coexistence, but convenience”, he has concluded rhetorically.
“In a normal democracy, the convicted do not write the Penal Code nor the lawyers of the accused the amnesties,” he added, although he acknowledged that relations with the nationalists must be “normalized” and he has even praised Puigdemont’s sincerity, despite who knows from when both coincided in different forums as regional presidents: “There are others who lie a lot, but everyone knows what Puigdemont asks for, that is a value,” he praised.
But in addition to the socialist and Junts voters, Feijóo has also appealed to all Catalans to claim the PP as the third force in votes in the July general elections and has reiterated that the fourth and fifth parties, in reference to ERC and Junts, the only ones that included the amnesty in their electoral program, he recalled, cannot speak on behalf of the entire Catalan society.
Based on his experience as a manager of public organizations and president of the Xunta de Galicia, Feijóo has said that he always works with the premise of “prioritizing what is really important and putting aside what is superfluous”, because “concrete problems unite and abstract problems separate”. has argued to introduce the axes of his economic proposals into the discourse.
In this sense, he wanted to “dismantle the lies” spread by the “media affected” by the Generalitat and the Government of Spain about Catalonia being better than in 2017. “Better in what?” he asked himself, and He himself has responded with a string of data that demonstrates the decline he observes in health, education, housing, transportation, tourism and the business and university world.
Before an auditorium with a notable presence of politicians, among whom was former president José Montilla, whose presence Feijóo has thanked on more than one occasion, and businessmen, the head of the opposition has presented his economic alternatives for Catalonia, based on a reduction of taxes that promote activity without harming collection, in the image and likeness of the Community of Madrid, and in recovering the trust of investors after the flight of companies in 2017.
“My great objective when I am President of the Government will be for Catalonia to once again compete as the economic engine of Spain,” said Feijóo, who believes that the “disaffection” that Montilla diagnosed during his time at the head of the Generalitat “has gotten worse.” in recent years.
Finally, the conservative leader has made an appeal to Catalans with a “moderate mentality” to point out that self-determination and amnesty “do not solve” any of the economic problems outlined, since “it only benefits a very small circle”, those who have pending accounts with the justice system for their participation in the process. “What other European State is immersed in the midst of global instability on these issues? None. Catalonia needs the revolution of truth and true politics,” concluded Feijóo, who after his conference visited the apprentice school of Seat, where dual vocational training is offered.
