Corrales del Vino is a town in Zamora, in empty Spain, with barely 1,000 inhabitants, which Alberto Núñez Feijóo visited yesterday. He walked the streets, talked to his neighbors and listened to them, before making a speech of just fifteen minutes, a kind of rally.
What Feijóo intended was to contrast his closeness to the people with Sánchez’s campaign, “on set, and closed in Moncloa”, while he, he asserts, takes photos at the gas stations he passes, drinks a coffee at any bar and talk to people. His aspiration is “that they know me, that they know who I am, what I will do and the commitments I assume”. “I want to be the president of the people”, said Feijóo. But for this, he must achieve, he emphasized to those listening to him in Corrales del Vino, “a sufficient majority, without intermediaries”, in a clear message to Vox, whom he never quotes. Corrales del Vino is governed by the PP, which won six of the town’s seven councilors.
Feijóo is touring Spain, next week it will be in 12 autonomous communities, with a special stop in Ermua, coinciding with the 26th anniversary of the murder of Miguel Ángel Blanco. But above all he will step on the street, says Feijóo and not like Sánchez, he stressed, “who has moved away from people and now they are surprised that they turn their backs on him”.
While this weekend Sánchez has no event, today Feijóo will be in Pontevedra, where he hopes to gather 12,000 people in the bullring, in what will surely be the biggest event of the entire campaign, not forgetting to continue talking to people and making commitments.
In Corrales del Vino, after speaking with its inhabitants, the president of the PP explained his measures to revitalize the rural world, such as lowering taxes for companies that set up there, because that way there will be jobs and people he won’t have to go. And if that happens, there will be aid to rehabilitate the towns, because there will be people living in the houses. Taxes will also be lower to buy houses in empty Spain, “and so young people will be able to come back, because there will be houses and jobs” said Feijóo.
But while this is happening, and aware that now the big problem of the towns is aging, the PP also proposes ideas to alleviate the loneliness of the elderly in the rural world, such as the creation of “homes for the elderly”, where there are carers who allow grandparents to continue living in their homes, but with attention in those homes that need it, and connected with them, without ruling out collective housing, so that the elderly do not have to leave their villages to go to a residence.
Another measure, that there be a time bracket in which grandparents have priority in accessing public services.
