The general coordinator of the PP, Elias Bendodo, and the party spokesperson, Borja Sémper, responded this Wednesday to Pedro Sánchez that the Spaniards do not have any problem with the 12-O holiday and that in any case the President of the Government has one. functions and their possible partners in reference to Esquerra, Junts, Bildu, PNV and BNG who will not attend tomorrow’s military march.
It is the PP’s response to the demands of the Government and of Sánchez himself to stop “shaking up the street”, with 12-O and the National Day parade on the horizon, where the President of the Government usually receives many whistles from those attending the military march.
The reactions of Bendodo and Sémper were different, Bendodo’s being harsher, “if the Spaniards boo him tomorrow, they will have their reasons,” than that of the popular spokesperson. The general coordinator of the PP, stressed from Malaga that tomorrow, October 12, it is “very important for those who have political responsibility that we know how to fit the bill,” but in his opinion, “Sánchez, out of extreme arrogance, only admits the palm trees and palm trees”.
Bendodo considers that he is now trying to blame the PP “preventively for the predictable whistle” that he may receive in the parade, but warns him that “the PP has nothing to do with this”, and what he should do is “listen more to the street”, and realizing that “if people boo you, they will have their reasons”, which is why he recommends that you “analyze what you are doing.
Sánchez raised it with Feijóo on Monday, when he reproached him for “having called two demonstrations” against him, since he became a candidate, one the public event organized by the PP on the eve of Feijóo’s failed investiture, and the other the demonstration held on Sunday. happened in Barcelona, ??organized by Societat Civil Catalana. According to the version of the popular leader, when he asked him this approach, he responded that when the PP event was held, the candidate for the investiture was him, and that the Barcelona march was not called by the PP, but by SCC, which made the announcement before. of his investiture.
For this reason, his response to the summons to “not agitate the street” was answered with “are you really telling me that?”, considering that if something is agitating the street it is not “the right”, as, his trial, the PSOE tries to convey about the rallies held against the amnesty. For this reason, this Wednesday, Sémper, in an interview on RNE’s Las Mañanas, responded to the PSOE that “those who have a problem with October 12 are not the citizens, but a notable part of Sumar and Sánchez’s partners, such as Bildu , Junts or ERC”.
The popular leader stressed that the PP wants October 12 “to be a day of celebration and respect for the Armed Forces, in which the institutions are preserved and the dignity of politicians is respected.”
Despite the requirements of the PSOE, the PP retains the right to call as many events as it deems appropriate to oppose the amnesty and a hypothetical self-determination referendum, although at the moment it has none planned. And he will do so because, said Sémper, “the granting of the amnesty favors Sánchez, but not Spain,” in addition to reminding the acting president that “he did not tell the citizens that he was willing to adopt this measure and erase the crimes committed.” “.
“If it is done, we consider that politically it is not legitimate and we will remind the Government because it is outrageous,” stressed the PP leader, who wants to make it clear to the Spanish people that Sánchez is not doing this out of conviction, because if not, he will not be He would have refused to do so every time the pro-independence supporters have asked him to do so since he became President of the Government, but he does it “because he needs the votes of a political formation that has a person on the run from justice, to revalidate the Presidency of the Government. which represents a “self-amnesty on the part of those who are willing to give that vote to a politician.”
Bendodo also referred at a PP event in Malaga, in the street, to the conversation that the acting president, Pedro Sánchez, had today with the leader of ERC, Oriol Junqueras, convicted for the process and pardoned. by the current Government. The general coordinator of the PP reproached Sánchez for talking about “mutual respect”, but above all he called on him to “clarify what his next steps will be”, whether it will be “calling Carles Puigdemont, or if he is going to visit him in Waterloo, to meet with him”, all in order to be president of the Government.
For Sémper, the attitude of the PSOE is shocking “and regrettable”, accusing them of agitating the streets, and that for the Executive “being against politicians amnestying politicians turns you into a dangerous provocateur” or that being against crimes of embezzlement or against the Constitution “remaining on wet paper places you as a dangerous radical.”
Borja Sémper recalled that “States of law, in the face of growing left-wing, right-wing or nationalist populism, defend themselves with democratic norms. If the containment dams in defense of the institutions and the Constitution are ended, the rule of law will suffer.”
The PP spokesperson asks the PSOE to instead of worrying about granting the independentists what they ask for, to talk among all the parties about “the problems that really concern Catalans”, such as health, education, housing or competitiveness. of companies, because, he said, “no one talks about the future of Catalans beyond purely identity issues.”
The PP leader also asked the Government to “clarify its position on the attack on Israel”, given that members of the Executive doubt the status of Hamas as a terrorist organization and that even “some of the political parties that support the Government relativize what happened, even talking about media manipulation. For Sémper, “in a country where the word ‘terrorism’ is used with extraordinary ease, talking about ‘financial or climate terrorism’, they are not able to say that Hamas is a terrorist organization” and he called on the PSOE: ” What a joke this is, what political insensitivity they are demonstrating,” he denounced.
