Without any reference to the confrontation between the central government and that of the Community of Madrid over the protocol in the acts of the party on May 2, nor allusions to his meeting with the conservative prosecutors, the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, attacked yesterday against the Government of Pedro Sánchez, in one of the toughest speeches against the Executive that he has made so far.
Feijóo is fed up with the campaigns against him that spread from La Moncloa or from Ferraz, and he wants to show that he is not going to remain silent. For this reason, in an act in which perhaps it was not relevant, it was the presentation of the PP candidate for the presidency of the Principality of Asturias, in an informative breakfast organized by the Nueva EconomÃa Forum, the popular president stressed about “the evils that afflict to politics and the government of the nation”.
Evils that go against the “calm reflection” that he claims to seek, in the midst of a policy that he claims to hate and that is the one that “confronts” and not the one that “adds and is useful.” Those evils that Feijóo denounces in the Sánchez government are “adamanism, triumphalism and conformism”, which are the logical evils of “populism”, which when “colonizes previously systemic parties”, as he considers has happened with the PSOE, “the worst anti-system rhetoric” arises, which is where the president of the PP places the current PSOE and the Government.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo accuses the Government of “Adamism” for considering, Feijóo said, that it is the only government that has had to “face difficulties”, among which he cited the pandemic, the Ukrainian War or the eruption of the La Palm. For the president of the PP, this is “a mantra of self-justification and self-exculpation” to “avoid mistakes”, when he stressed, “he is not the only one who has had to face the pandemic or the war in Ukraine”.
Feijóo considers that “this adanismo” leads “to triumphalism” of considering itself the first government to face the country’s problems, as in his opinion is the case with the housing law, after “five years of neglect” and “advertisements that everyone knows are not they are going to be fulfilled and that they have already become a national mockery”, and that they are not going to solve the housing problem “because they have already failed where they have been applied”.
The president of the PP considers that this triumphalism is accompanied by “a mythical story” that is born “from the publicist factory of La Moncloa or Ferraz” and that tries to elaborate the discourse that the Government is “an example of management”, something that in his opinion it is not acceptable: “it takes daring to say this” and he raised a series of data “that are stubborn” and that in his opinion refute that discourse, since Spain is the OECD country that has fallen the most into family income, 7.8%, or the fact that Spain is the one that has increased the most fiscal pressure, 7 points over GDP, without forgetting that prices have risen 15% in two years, food prices a 25%, or that the price of mortgages has risen by an average of 300 euros, or that Spain is the last country to recover its GDP before the pandemic, or that “it continues to be the leader in unemployment in Europe.” For Feijóo, “there is a triumphalism that is an offense to those who listen to them” and stressed that this mixture of “Adamism and triumphalism” leads “to the frustration of citizens who see that the problems are not really addressed or the statistics are made up , and conformism emerges with the argument that others have it worse”.
