The trans law and the Democratic Memory law have their days numbered if Alberto Núñez Feijóo arrives in Moncloa. The PP candidate yesterday indicated in an interview with Onda Cero his intention to repeal the two regulations because he understands that they are “minority laws” that have been pushed forward this legislature to “maintain the Government coalition”. In this way, the popular leader outlined his intentions if he wins the presidency, placing critical emphasis on Pedro Sánchez’s alliances. On the one hand, the law promoted by the ministry of Irene Montero. On the other, the legislation on Democratic Memory with the imprint, he said, of Bildu.
The trans law has generated a controversial debate throughout much of the legislature. Buried in the bosom of the coalition and open within feminism, which is why the leader of the PP wants to take advantage of the division. “It’s easier to change your legal gender than to get your driver’s license. It is a law – he commented – that goes against minors, the guardianship of parents, feminist groups, doctors…”. Despite the criticism, the intention is to present a new trans law for a group that “has its rights and we will regulate them”. It is understood that it would repeal the core of the rule: the free self-determination of sex in the registers.
In this sketch of his government project, when he was asked about the extensive Cabinet that Sánchez has, Feijóo defended an Executive with fewer ministries and gave as an example the possibility of subsuming the portfolio of Equality and that of Consumption within other departments. The disappearance of Equality with ministerial rank immediately generated criticism from the feminist movement, which emphasized the hard data on male violence and the importance of keeping the portfolio.
After targeting these two rules, Feijóo approached with more prudence the analysis of other laws of the Sánchez Executive. He explained that tweaks will be considered in the Education law, some adjustments in the Euthanasia law, but no repeals. And with regard to the labor reform, he indicated that the text promoted by Mariano Rajoy remains in large part.
Regarding the reforms introduced in the Penal Code agreed with ERC and with reference to the process, the PP candidate indicated his intention to replace the “crime of sedition”, and also indicated that he wants to “make the referendum illegal” . He also referred to the need to modify the “pardons for corruption”. It should be remembered that the former president of the Board, José Antonio Griñán, has requested a pardon. And that in the sentence against the former president of the Parliament, Laura Borrà s, the judges ask for a pardon.
Yesterday, Feijóo tried to avoid talking about Vox with his eyes on a percentage of the socialist vote – he said between 7% and 10% – which he believes can be close to his formation.
In this interview, the leader of the PP highlighted the fact that Isabel DÃaz Ayuso said that Sánchez had arrived and would leave with a “sniff”. “These are formulas that politicians usually use copied from many journalists”.
Pedro Sánchez, in any case, spent the entire electoral campaign of 28-M warning all over Spain that the only political project of Alberto Núñez Feijóo is to “repeal and dismantle” all the reforms and social advances of this legislature, to “retreat to a painful past”.
A message of warning to citizens, and to mobilize the progressive electorate, which had little success, in accordance with the electoral triumph of the PP at the polls. But with the general elections of 23-J already called, the president of the Spanish Government raised the level of alarm and warned on Monday that modifying his economic reforms or tasks would cause “extraordinarily serious damage” to economic growth and the current job creation in Spain.
And after Feijóo expressed yesterday his determination to reverse “many” laws of this legislature and reduce ministries, they assured the Spanish Government that they saw their worst fears confirmed. The Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, responsible for the regulations on the Democratic Memory, was conclusive: “It is already clear enough that Feijóo’s political project is to repeal, it is destructive, it is to make our country go backwards, repealing the advances that we have approved in this legislature”. “What are the setbacks with which you want to punish the Spanish?”, he demanded.
“What can bother a democrat about the Law of Memory?”, replied Bolaños. “Can a democrat be bothered that a coup d’état and a dictatorship are declared illegal? That families can recover remains of their loved ones? That the victims of all sides of the war be honored?”, he proposed.
Regarding the elimination of the Ministry of Equality proposed by Feijóo, the spokeswoman of the Spanish Government, the socialist Isabel RodrÃguez, warned that Spain is at the forefront of equality policies and advances for women . “And whoever does not defend this cause will answer to the public,” he assured.
“The PP is starting to show its cards”, the Minister of Culture, Miquel Iceta, warned in turn. Faced with the fusion of Culture with Education and Universities that Feijóo is studying, Iceta was convinced that “the polls will demand more culture, not less”. “It’s about moving forward, not going backwards”, defended the minister.
