The president of Castilla-La Mancha, the socialist Emiliano García-Page, openly opposed to the amnesty, opened the door last night to the possibility that a PSOE deputy could compensate for the lack of support from the PP candidate, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to his attempted investiture next week, a possibility that the Minister of Transport, Raquel Sánchez, has “absolutely” ruled out.
For his part, the president of the Junta de Andalucía, the popular Juanma Moreno, has encouraged the socialist deputies in recent hours to “rebel for their own principles” while the former president of the Community of Madrid, the popular Esperanza Aguirre, has given that Feijóo will fail in his attempt next week, although he has not ruled out that some socialist deputy will refuse to vote for Pedro Sánchez if he agrees to amnesty with the independentists.
In an interview on Hora25 on Cadena Ser, García Page stated last night that “whoever plays that the PP’s lack of votes is compensated by turncoats in the PSOE, may find them, but it will not be because I look for them or protect them.” “I believe that things have to be clean and the Government of Spain, whoever it may be, can never be subjected to tamayazo of any kind.” After his conversation yesterday with Feijóo, the Castilian president warned that “it is one thing to disagree with something that the PSOE does and a very different thing to think that the PP alternative is better.”
For her part, Minister Sánchez “absolutely” trusts that there will be no transfers from the PSOE. “We socialists have demonstrated firmness in our convictions,” said the head of Transport, who added that the popular approaches to socialist deputies are “a desperate attempt by the PP to appeal to this transfuguism” and “an exercise of pure absurdity”.
In this sense, the president of the Junta de Andalucía appeals this Friday to “the State conscience” of the socialist deputies in an interview in El Confidencial. “The deputy has a personal record, he presents himself through a political formation, but the record is his and he makes the decisions,” says Moreno, for whom, “beyond the logical party discipline, which there should be, to Sometimes extremes are reached in which deputies must rebel for their own principles. At this point he assures that he has listened to “many deputies, not one or two, there would be more than enough [to make Feijóo president], who do not agree with Sánchez’s theses, but they are going to be drowned by party discipline and fear.” “. “Sánchez has caused whoever speaks to leave the party expelled immediately and be condemned to ostracism within the PSOE,” he snaps.
With similar arguments, Esperanza Aguirre, who 20 years ago came to office thanks to two PSOE turncoats who prevented the investiture of Rafael Simancas, has “completely” ruled out that PSOE deputies give the votes that Feijóo lacks but not that some deputies of the PSOE do not vote for Sánchez. “This is what I would like,” acknowledged the former president of Madrid in an interview on the Cafè d’Idees program on La 2 and Ràdio 4. “The seat does not belong to the party, it belongs to the deputy,” Aguirre recalled again, for whom “giving amnesty is absolute nonsense.”
The PP has called an event against the amnesty this Sunday at noon in Madrid, on the eve of Feijóo’s attempted investiture. The leader of the PP will be accompanied by the former presidents of the Government José María Aznar – who launched the proposal for this mobilization – and Mariano Rajoy. The PP of Madrid has dedicated itself to the organization of this day of protest, which will take place in the heart of the Salamanca neighborhood, in the Plaza de Felipe II, next to the Wizink Center (former Palacio de los Deportes). The Madrid district headquarters have installed more than 100 information tables in the streets, 100,000 brochures have been printed and, according to Europa Press, each affiliate is being called by phone to inform them about the appointments. In addition, the PP is chartering dozens of buses from all over Spain for a “massive mobilization” in this act against the amnesty.
