“I have met the no is no” of Pedro Sánchez, concluded the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo as a summary of their meeting of less than an hour, the shortest that the two leaders have held so far .
The distance is so obvious that the aspirant to the investiture for the presidency of the Spanish Government did not even raise the proposal that he would have preferred: a grand coalition of the two major parties as happens in other countries.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo lamented this situation in a press conference held in Congress.
The president of the PP and candidate for the investiture offered the general secretary of the PSOE what he believed might have some chance of convincing him: an agreement between the PSOE and PP, to which other parties could be added, and by which the socialists would facilitate the investiture of Feijóo for a two-year legislature.
This shorter legislature would aim to consolidate the six major State pacts, in the style of the Pactes de la Moncloa, a photo of which presides over the document that the popular leader handed over to the secretary general of the PSOE, and that Sánchez collected , but to which he answered with a “no” in advance, despite the fact that Feijóo considers it a “no, for now”.
These agreements include a democratic regeneration pact, which would include the reform of the election system for the members of the General Council of the Judiciary, as well as the attorney general and the Constitutional Court. Also a pact for the welfare state that guarantees the viability of the national health system, the education system, equality between men and women, and the viability of pensions.
There would also be a pact for economic support; a pact for the family, a national water pact and a “territorial pact” to turn the Senate into a true chamber of territorial representation with the aim of strengthening the regional system that would include a new financing system.
But Sánchez told him no, and with this, Feijóo draws a conclusion: it is not that the socialist has no other choice but to agree with Junts per Catalunya, Esquerra Republicana or EH-Bildu to form a government, but “it is what flight”.
The Popular Party will try to arm its speech Sánchez, if he chooses the presidency, and will be based precisely on this rejection of “the possibility of a government that defends equality between Spaniards” because, according to the PP, yesterday he opted “for the inequality, due to the cession to the pro-independence parties, of their own volition”.
Hence, his impression, confessed at the press conference, that Sánchez “prefers to negotiate the amnesty and the independence referendum” demanded by the Catalan separatists and that what he is doing is “looking for a fit with particular demands ” of the secessionists.
Feijóo’s conclusion from this conversation of less than an hour, “it seems that the socialist party is not interested in an investiture between constitutionalist parties”. He is not interested, said the leader of the PP, “to calm Spain, reduce the tension, reset the country, put an end to the policy of blocs”. What Sánchez intends, according to the popular president, is to “hand over the equality of the Spanish to the pro-independence people”, something that he is not willing to do.
In this sense, Feijóo repeated at two points in his speech that “it may be difficult for me to be president of the Spanish Government, but I will not be president, in any case, at the expense of the inequality of the Spanish”.
