Objective Feijóo, even in absentia. The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, wants to put all the spotlights on the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, during the debate on the motion of censure promoted by Vox that starts tomorrow in Congress. The leader of the main opposition party will not even attend the plenary session, despite the fact that as a senator he could, with which Moncloa warns that “he is not showing much courage, he does not show his face and he abstains before Vox, so he is linking his political future to the ultra-right”.
After the meeting of the Council of Ministers this Monday, the government spokesperson, the socialist Isabel Rodríguez, has taken advantage of the announced abstention of the PP to charge against Feijóo. “Instead of opposing the motion of censure, there will be an abstention by the PP, which is the main opposition party. And what Feijóo is going to promote with this abstention from the motion of no confidence is neither more nor less than tying his political future to the extreme right, ”she warned.
The minister spokesperson has insisted that Feijóo assumed the leadership of the PP, almost a year ago now, boasting of being a “moderate” leader, to distinguish himself from his predecessor in office, Pablo Casado. But if the popular group of Casado voted no to Vox’s first motion of no confidence against Sánchez, in October 2020, now Feijóo has opted for abstention, which charges the batteries of the Government’s discourse, already in the run-up to the elections municipal and regional governments on May 28.
“Feijóo’s first decision in relation to the extreme right was the formation of the government in Castilla y León, and it seems that he has concluded that he has to continue this path, whenever arithmetic allows it, to agree with Vox,” he said. criticized Isabel Rodríguez. The executive of the PP in Castilla y León, in fact, was the first autonomous government in Spain -and for now the only one- to which the extreme right was incorporated.
The minister spokesperson has highlighted that, in this new motion of censure against Sánchez, the right and the extreme right “are shaking hands”. “This motion of censure is the marriage capitulations of the right and the extreme right,” denounced Isabel Rodríguez.
In the Moncloa, in any case, they continue to feed expectations, by not revealing what the strategy that Pedro Sánchez will deploy will be, in the face of a motion of censure that they describe as “very unique”. To begin with, because it is not the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, who is presenting himself as an alternative, despite being the driving force behind the motion, but rather the veteran Ramón Tamames as an “instrumental candidate”. “Vox does not dare to show its face”, they poke. The President of the Government will take advantage of the occasion to “contrast” models and projects, compared to what in his opinion would be “a hypothetical government of the PP and Vox”. “Citizens have to see what the alternatives are before the next elections,” they defend. But in the Moncloa they warn that Sánchez will show “absolute respect” before the candidacy of Tamames.
