With his eyes set on the investiture, Alberto Núñez Feijóo begins the political course with the intention of obtaining the four votes he needs to be president and at the same time build a story of the future. All because of the conviction that if he doesn’t succeed in becoming president now, there will be a short term of Pedro Sánchez at the head of the central government, or an electoral repeat, for which the leader of the PP wants to be prepared.
The president of the PP is clear about his offer and will present it in his inauguration speech. A “change program” in economic matters, institutional regeneration and the urgent reforms that Spain needs. Yesterday he advanced it in his speech in Soutomaior (Pontevedra), surrounded by territorial power, with the presidents of Andalusia, Galicia, Castile and Leon, the Balearic Islands, Murcia, Extremadura, Aragon, and the absence of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, always notorious, despite the fact that she was not the only one. The presidents of the Valencian Community, La Rioja and Cantabria were also absent from the meeting.
Also the president of the Catalan PP, Alejandro Fernández, who yesterday again criticized the leadership of the PP for wanting to talk to Junts, after Feijóo clarified at his meeting that “talking does not mean that we accept what Sánchez is willing to accept, because he does not we are Sánchez”.
Feijóo wants to talk about a “project for a country in which the majority of Spaniards recognize themselves”. And he does not seem to be willing to give up what he is convinced that Sánchez is considering giving up. “If the investiture only depends on giving in more, humiliating the institutions more, Sánchez will win it, but Spain will lose it”.
Feijóo has no doubt that if he is four votes away from being sworn in as president, Sánchez is “four cessions away”, which he listed: “an amnesty incompatible with the Constitution”, which only needs to find a name other than the of amnesty, he said. The second transfer would be “an independence referendum inappropriate for a country in the European Union and one of the oldest nations in the world”. The other two concessions would be because Sánchez is willing to have the “weakest government” there has been; and to “again break the principle of equality for all Spaniards”.
In his speech, Feijóo will talk not only about what “Spain needs”, but also about what it “doesn’t need”, which translates into what Sánchez represents: “Rupture, division and territorial and political abyss”. Even if it is only to avoid it, in his opinion it would be worth the investment.
Faced with this form of government to which Sánchez would be willing, Feijóo presents his project, based on the economy, without admitting “auctions, blackmail or bowing to the interests of minorities”. The main lines of his inauguration speech will be these, both to denounce what Sánchez is willing to give in, and to outline the points of his program and the conversations he will hold to try to be president.
Spain “needs a change towards moderation and centrality”, and to stop depending on “radical and pro-independence minorities”. A project with which it wants to show that the PP has “a battery of economic proposals” to raise the per capita income of Spaniards, create quality employment, reduce the poverty rate and lower taxes – “as intensively as we can”, punctuate–.
The head of the PP will also present an “institutional regeneration” project and a strategy “to carry out the reforms that Spain needs”: regional funding, that of a pact for water, to ensure “the viability of pensions”, to “break the demographic decline” or “guarantee the sustainability of the national health service”.
A project, after all, that “even if it doesn’t come out with four votes, its ideas will be valid in the coming years”, and even if “it is not in the short term, it will be the first stone of the next government of Spain”. In other words, the basis of his proposal before an electoral repeat or after a short legislature. With this, Feijóo makes it clear that he will continue at the head of the PP even if he is not president and that, in his opinion, he will soon reach the Spanish Government. He expressed it with a resounding sentence: “Sooner or later the next government in Spain will be from the PP. A government for all Spaniards”.
