The leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has asked the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, “to respond to the Spaniards” to clarify “whether or not he is in an alleged conflict of interest”, in reference to the investigative commission created in the Senate for the Koldo case. “If he doesn’t do it, we will make him respond,” Feijóo added.
In this way, the popular president has not ruled out calling Sánchez to testify in the investigative commission that the PP promotes in the Senate, where it has an absolute majority. After announcing on Monday that they will summon Francina Armengol, president of the Congress of Deputies, and Ángel Víctor Torres, Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Núñez Feijóo has not closed the door on making more summons. “We want to be explained what happened,” clarified the former president of the Xunta.
Currently, two investigative commissions have been established, one in the Congress of Deputies and the other in the Senate as a result of the Koldo case, in which the National Court is trying to unmask an alleged corruption plot in the sale and purchase of masks during the pandemic. On the one hand, the PP has an absolute majority in the Senate, while in Congress it is in a minority.
However, Feijóo has opposed summoning the president’s wife, Begoña Gómez, whom the popular people relate to an alleged “favorable treatment” by the Government to the airline Air Europa, which was rescued in 2020. According to the popular leader , calling the president’s wife to testify “is not his way of doing politics.”
Regarding the investigation commission initiated in the Congress of Deputies, in which the PSOE does not rule out calling the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and her partner, Núñez Feijóo has been forceful in defense of the president popular in Madrid. “The President does not have a single hint of irregularity in her political and administrative actions,” he concluded.
On the other hand, Feijóo has been very critical of the Government and the political tension. Thus, he has lamented that “the future of the presidency of Spain depends on the Catalan and Basque independence movement”, and has shown his “doubts” about the governability of the country. “We are facing the worst political class in the worst 45 years,” said Feijóo.
The popular leader has defended his “moderate stance, proposing six State pacts”, but has criticized “that the Government did not even respond”.
Núñez Feijóo has also given his assessment regarding the upcoming elections in the Basque Country and Catalonia. In the first, the popular has explained that there are “two possibilities, vote for the PNV, PSV and EH Bildu, or vote for the PPV.”
In Catalonia, where in recent weeks the Popular Party has had certain discussions to decide the candidate, Feijóo has assured that “the effects of this discussion have been positive”, since they have “gained notoriety and presence of the candidate”, Alejandro Fernández. Furthermore, he has assured that “Salvador Illa, PSC candidate, looks a lot like Pedro Sánchez.”
The opposition leader has also commented on the proposal that Pere Aragonès, president of the Generalitat, launched yesterday regarding holding a referendum under the protection of article 92 of the Constitution. “The referendum does not fit either the Canadian, Scottish or Galician style,” Feijóo added. “The process is at its maximum level, with those who have been pardoned and those who are going to be amnestied.”
Finally, Feijóo has also commented that one of the first decisions he will make if he becomes President of the Government will be “to repeal the law of historical memory that was agreed with EH Bildu”, after Minister Torres announced that the Government will take the TC the repeals of the memory laws promoted by PP and Vox in Aragón, the Autonomous Community and Castilla y León.
