Alberto Núñez Feijóo will immediately propose the reform of the crime of embezzlement to Congress, in the line of legislative harmonization that Brussels is promoting. The popular leader indicated yesterday that it should be approved before the start of the Spanish presidency of the EU, on July 1. In a meeting held in Melilla, he resumed the line marked on Thursday, citing Pedro Sánchez to agree on the reform, and stressed that Spain “cannot” face the presidency without carrying out the modifications.
The European Commission proposed on Wednesday that embezzlement crimes have a penalty of at least five years in prison. That is to say, longer than what was agreed with ERC for certain reduced rates in the reform of the Penal Code, established in four years when there is a “different public application” to the appropriation of public assets for the purpose that was destined The reform promoted by Brussels will be a long and complex process.
Feijóo will follow the strategy he proposed in the changes to the law of only yes is yes, in which socialists and populars finally added the votes. In other words, he will bring his reform proposal to Parliament and offer the pact to the PSOE. If the agreement is not possible, Feijóo indicated that he will develop it when he obtains the majority to do so.
Although the negotiation in Brussels is long, the fact that Spain will assume the rotating presidency of the EU means that it will also preside over the meetings of the Ministers of Justice, in which the issue will be debated.
Feijóo takes advantage of the reform framework proposed by the European Commission to try to take the initiative, especially after the calls for attention that have been made from Brussels in recent weeks to warn about the environmental impact of the bill of Doñana irrigation legalization. A project of the Junta d’Andalusia, which put the president of the PP in a commitment to the repeated requirements of the Commission.
At the event held in Melilla, with the candidate Javier Imbroda, Feijóo drew the horizon of 28-M as the need for a start of political change in Spain, and directed the look and the search for votes in the moderate electorate of socialism. In the PP, he said, they all fit. “Those who have always voted for us, and also those who voted for the PSOE because they thought it was a state party. Those who trusted Sánchez – he continued – but he has betrayed them because of his agreement with Podemos, because he said he would not agree with Bildu, and that he would not agree anything with ERC”.
He defined the PP as a space that wants to be “a meeting point that transcends the approaches” of a party. And that it accommodates “all languages, cultures, religions”.
Along these lines, he also addressed the Spaniards who voted for Citizens believing in a “new policy”, and those who – with reference to Vox – thought it was a way of supporting the PP.
From Melilla, the popular leader avoided making allusions to the relations between Spain and Morocco, after the approach to Rabat by the Government of Pedro Sánchez. The horizon of an eventual arrival in Moncloa advises prudence in the broad lines of foreign policy.
