The demonstration called for next Sunday in Barcelona, ??by Catalan Civil Society, against the amnesty, will be attended by the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo. With the decision that the highest representative of the PP attend this event, the PP wants to send the message that it “backs and supports” the call, but that “it is not an act of the PP.”
Feijóo will, therefore, be at that demonstration, but “as another citizen”, and the party’s decision is not to mobilize the entire leadership to highlight the presence of the PP in the protest, but rather, said the general coordinator of the popular parties, Elías Bendodo, “the PP militants and voters who want will go, and there will be many,” but there will be many who go and are not from the PP.
To say “no to the amnesty,” they emphasize in the PP, the PP already organized the public event that was held in Madrid a week ago, with an attendance of more than 60,000 people from all over Spain, who, summoned by the PP, went to Madrid to say no to the amnesty. The Barcelona call is from the Catalan Civil Society, the popular ones emphasize, and what Feijóo will do is attend because he agrees with the postulates for which he is mobilizing.
The PP steering committee, the first after Feijóo’s failed investiture, and on the eve of attending the new round of consultations with the King. The PP feels satisfied with the failed debate, because it considers it a “clear ethical victory, and a victory in the battle of principles.” It will be those principles that I speak to the King about, and they are the reasons why he did not get the four more seats that he needed to be president.
But from the round of contacts, the PP believes that it is Sánchez who should have the leading role, and that is why it asks him “now that it seems” that he can be a candidate “to come out of the ambiguity and silence, from that hiding place in which stand and say, as Alberto Núñez Feijóo did, what the limits are”, because, the general coordinator of the PP insisted, “the independence movement offered us the same thing”, but Feijóo told all Spaniards “what their limits were”.
From Pedro Sánchez’s audience with the King, after which Feijóo will attend, the PP hopes “that he clarify whether he is willing to promote an amnesty law, what are those technical details that the independentists say are missing, because the amnesty has already been negotiated , and if you are willing to use and promote a referendum, and if you are willing “how and in what way.
Regarding this second aspect, the PP raises two questions, that “they should not call it a consultation, when it is a referendum”, as Óscar López called it this weekend, and that “no to the referendum should not be the excuse for the amnesty, because it does not Let’s accept that we talk about the referendum, not to mention an amnesty.” The Spaniards, Bendodo insists, “we are not stupid,” and they are not going to accept “the lure of a referendum being launched, not to talk about amnesty, because one thing is just as serious as the other.”
The PP also wants to see, tomorrow, what support it tells the King it has, since the independentistas are not going to attend the Zarzuela round of contacts, and if it tells him that it has support to be invested, it should explain it. For Bendondo, he will attend, at most, with 152 seats, those of the PSOE and the Sumar, without knowing if of those votes, the five from Podemos will be counted, since Podemos has conditioned its support on the presence of Irene Montero. in the Ministry of Equality.
The PP is also concerned that the Government is beginning to dust off Zapatero’s “multi-level Spanish”, which in its opinion only means that “there will be first and second-class autonomies.” For the popular ones, the amnesty and this drift would be “the first stone of a confrontation and inequality in this country.
Likewise, the PP warns about the instruction given by the PSOE and Pedro Sánchez to its leaders, “so that they tour the territory and teach the amnesty and the referendum”, something that, according to Elías Bendodo “is teasing the people , telling him that it is not that bad”, so in his opinion, we must speak clearly to the Spaniards and tell them that now there are two alternatives, “either amnesty or elections on January 14.”
