Alberto Núñez Feijóo will immediately propose the reform of the crime of embezzlement in Congress, in line with the harmonization that Brussels wants to promote. He considers that it should be approved before the Spanish presidency of the EU begins, which opens on July 1. In a meeting held in Melilla, the president of the PP has followed the line marked out yesterday, summoning Pedro Sánchez to agree to this reform, and has stressed that Spain “cannot” face the presidency without carrying out the modifications.
The European Commission proposed on Wednesday that embezzlement offenses in all EU countries carry a penalty of at least five years in prison. This penalty is greater than the one agreed with ERC for certain cases in the reform of the Penal Code. Brussels is working to draw up a directive in the fight against corruption, but it is a process that is expected to be long and complex.
Feijóo will follow the strategy that he proposed in the changes in the law of only yes is yes. That is to say, the popular will raise their reform proposal in Parliament by offering the pact to the PSOE. If the agreement is not possible, the popular leader indicated that he will carry it out when he obtains a sufficient majority to do so.
In the act held in Melilla, together with the candidate Javier Imbroda, the leader of the PP raised the 28-M as the need for a beginning of political change in Spain, and directed his gaze and the search for votes in the moderate electorate of socialism. “In the PP – he said – there is room for everyone. 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 but who has betrayed them because of his agreement with Podemos, because He said that he would not agree with Bildu, and that he would not agree on anything with ERC”.
He drew the PP as a space that is “a meeting point that transcends the approaches” of a party. And that it also accommodate “all languages, cultures, religions”.
Along these lines, he also addressed the Spaniards who voted for Ciudadanos believing in a “new policy”, and those who -in reference to Vox- thought it was a way of supporting the PP.
