This Sunday afternoon, the PP announced the conclusions of the meeting that its president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, held in Córdoba throughout the weekend with the regional leaders of the party with government responsibilities to redefine the political strategy of the PP. New cycle.
The withdrawal has been specified in the so-called Córdoba Declaration, which includes seven points through which the autonomies governed by the PP declare themselves “with the Constitution, with Spain and against the political and economic corruption of the PSOE.”
The popular leaders say they are aware of the “serious moment that the nation is experiencing” and the “great responsibility” that the PP has as the party with the most votes in the last general elections and they make a demand for the State model protected by the 1978 Constitution, which “it continues to be the best guarantee of coexistence and prosperity because the vast majority of Spaniards recognize themselves in it.”
From this constitutionalist premise, the PP shows its forceful rejection of the fact that the current central government “has chosen to live permanently extorted by the independence movement”, which has never had “so much capacity to influence the common project” of millions of Spaniards like today. , which is why he considers that the country is going through one of the “most serious” moments in its history.
The PP also rejects in the document, as it has been doing relentlessly since the beginning of the legislature, the Amnesty law, which Feijóo’s supporters equate to “political corruption” and attribute to the “extreme weakness” of the PSOE, which is subjected to “blackmail” by Junts and ERC that has led it to “consummate the greatest attack on equality and the rule of law” through “a rule that is based on lies and a corrupt transaction that consists of “selling law enforcement in exchange for buying votes.”
In this same line of associating the amnesty with corruption, the PP considers that the Executive must give explanations and must demand resignations for the Koldo case, which in the PP is already called the “PSOE case”, the plot that benefited in the middle of the pandemic. In this sense, the Popular Party accuses Pedro Sánchez’s party of “torpedoing” the judicial investigation and undertakes to continue denouncing in the institutions and in the courts “any derivative of this embezzlement in the public coffers, affecting whoever it affects.”
On the other hand, the Córdoba Declaration also accuses the Executive of trying to deactivate the judiciary with the Amnesty law, which represents, in the opinion of the PP, “an exercise of authoritarianism incompatible with a democratic system.”
The fourth point calls for reversing inequalities from the institutions managed by the PP: “Equality is not an option, it is a right of all Spaniards,” indicates the document, which defends that autonomous communities and cities are the State, Therefore, legitimately, it is emphasized, they will activate their powers “to the maximum” to “preserve the equality and solidarity that are being undermined.”
“We consider it inadmissible that decision-making and the distribution of public resources are administered arbitrarily according to the parliamentary needs of the current Government, ignoring general interests. We govern for 70% of the population and, in line with that responsibility, the PP never “is going to ignore the problems that affect Spaniards, wherever they live,” says the declaration, which calls for immediately convening the conference of presidents to be able to participate in making decisions that affect all of Spain.
While this forum “bitterly” continues without meeting, the PP denounces, the Government continues to offer a “collection of unilateral transfers” and “on-demand meetings with its partners and even clandestine meetings outside the European Union to negotiate privileges on behalf of all Spaniards”, in reference to the meetings of the PSOE organizational secretary, Santos Cerdán, with the leaders of Junts in Brussels and the negotiation table met in Geneva with a Salvadoran mediator.
“We express our contempt for this unequal and immoral treatment that creates first- and second-class citizens,” concludes the PP, which is committed to continuing to strengthen the autonomous system and is committed to continuing to “manage effectively and loyally to build from every corner of Spain a plural nation of free and equal citizens.”
Finally, the PP affirms “categorically” that the future of Spain is up to all Spaniards to decide: “We warn of the historical responsibility that the entire PSOE, without exceptions of any kind, is assuming by trying to disguise the law of impunity as a reconciliation exercise, which is not real, neither specifically in Catalonia nor in Spain as a whole.
“Beyond the immorality and illegality of the legislative text, its impulse has already resulted in the division of our country in two and in the independence movement feeling unpunished to reactivate its purpose of self-determination, as they publicly and repeatedly state. We condemn that socialism undauntedly facilitates all of this,” concludes the Córdoba Declaration.