“It is disturbing that a political leader has had this type of close relationship with a drug trafficker, and that concern is shared by millions of Spaniards,” warned Pedro Sánchez.
“I find it disturbing,” Sánchez insisted on the relationship that the current leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, had in the past with the drug trafficker Marcial Dorado. The President of the Government has highlighted that the head of the opposition, and favorite according to the polls to win the general elections next Sunday, “lied again” when he alleged the day before that when he took the photo with the Galician drug trafficker on his yacht, in the summer of 1995, he was unaware that Dorado was a drug dealer.
These explanations, as Sánchez has assured in an interview in La Sexta, “are lies.” Feijóo, in his opinion, “has lost an opportunity to really clarify his relationship with this drug trafficker.” The excuses that Google or the Internet did not exist at that time, as justified by the leader of the PP, “fall under their own weight,” he pointed out.
Sánchez has assured that, if he did not throw it in Feijóo’s face like this in the only face-to-face they have held, it is because he wants to carry out a “positive” electoral campaign. But, asked by the journalist Antonio García Ferreras, the PSOE leader has reiterated that Feijóo “lied” by claiming to be unaware that Dorado was a drug trafficker. The leader of the PP, has warned, “he has a debt with the Spanish and he has a debt with the truth.”
“Of course not”, he has settled. Only three days before the general elections, Sánchez is trying to plug one of the paths that penalize him the most before his own electorate, and that inject energy into the right-wing campaign thanks to the joint strategy of ERC and EH Bildu, by completely forcefully rejecting the claim of these independence formations, if he manages to revalidate the presidency of the Government after 23-J: “There will be no referendum on self-determination”, the leader of the P has stated bluntly SOE, this Thursday, in an interview on La Sexta.
Sánchez has insisted on slamming the ERC and Bildu aspirations, and has recalled that only when the Popular Party governed have illegal self-determination referendums been held in Catalonia. The head of the Executive has blocked the way once again to the proposal defended these days by Oriol Junqueras and Gabriel Rufián, by Arnaldo Otegi and by Mertxe Aizpurua, to hold a referendum on self-determination in Catalonia and the Basque Country, at the same time, if the leader of the PSOE manages to remain in Moncloa. “We are in the campaign and they have to say these things,” Sánchez argued.
The Chief Executive recalled that when he arrived at Moncloa in 2018, “I found myself in a serious institutional crisis in Catalonia.” But “fortunately we have already conveyed it and we are solving it”, he has defended. “It will require time, patience, determination and convictions, but we are channeling it”, he assured.
