Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s marathon of rallies over the weekend in Catalonia continued this Sunday in Salou, where he attacked the PSC for “asking for the vote of the constitutionalists to hand it over to the separatists”, something that, according to the president of the PP , has been evident not only in the pacts of the PSOE with ERC and Junts in Congress, but in the numerous Catalan town councils in which socialists and independentists have reached agreements.
“It seems that Catalonia is forced to choose between the egocentrism of Pedro Sánchez and that of Carles Puigdemont,” exclaimed Feijóo, who has proposed as an alternative to the “division” and the “lie” that he attributes to both of them to the PP and has criticized the attempt to “shush” the Spaniards that emerges, in his opinion, from the announcement made by the President of the Government after five days of reflection on his future. “There is no need to choose between Catalonia and Spain, between the Statute and the Constitution or between Spanish and Catalan, because both are Spanish languages,” said the Galician politician.
“In my land there are also independentists who have tried to indoctrinate Galicians,” continued Feijóo, who has denounced the harmony between the BNG, ERC and EH Bildu: “They have the same message, that we are poorly financed, that everything is taken for the rest of Spain, which Madrid steals from us,” stated the head of the opposition, who pointed out that “they are the same noisemakers that they say in Catalonia” and has shown himself convinced that, just as in Galicia, where the PP governs With an absolute majority, in the other two communities there will come a time when the “unity of the country” will triumph over the “closed ideology.”
“There is no difference between the independence movement and the Socialist Party in Catalonia. The PSOE has been erased as a state party,” said the opposition leader, who has accused Sánchez and the PSOE of using the Catalans as a “bargaining currency”: “They don’t care about Catalonia, because the key is to maintain the Government of Spain”, he assured. “We popular people are not going to sell Catalonia for nothing,” he countered.
For his part, the candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat, Alejandro Fernández from Tarragona, has praised the “open” Catalonia that Salou represents, an eminently tourist city that has allowed him to express his support for the sector: “If you don’t know Salou, don’t “You know Spain,” said the leader of the Catalan PP, echoing some words from the popular spokesperson in this town on the Costa Daurada, Mario García Vidal.
Fernández has denounced “tourismphobia”, which he has criticized as a “suicidal” strategy coming from Ada Colau’s Barcelona. “In tourism there is everything, as in any productive sector. How can you tell that these posh people have never had to make a living with a job as a waiter! ”Exclaimed the popular candidate, who did not work in the hospitality industry in his youth but did work in construction, as he recalled. “I want to vindicate the honor of waiters, which is a profession as worthy as any other,” he argued.
In this sense, Fernández has reiterated that the process has meant a “lost decade”, in which, as he has analyzed, the “political agenda” of the CUP and the commons has been penetrating the Parliament until turning Catalonia into a “hell”. fiscal” and a “paradise of occupation” through the “culture of no to everything.” A circumstance that has extended to Tarragona, where it has manifested itself in the rejection of the industry, largely the petrochemical sector, and the Hard Rock project. “What the hell do the eco-pijos want people to make a living from, I ask myself?” He concluded, wondering ironically.
The task of recovering the seat for Tarragona in the Parliament that the PP lost in 2021 has been entrusted by Feijóo to the lawyer Pere Lluís Huguet (Reus, 1962), who already obtained the certificate of deputy to Congress for this province, which did not have representation of the PP since the double electoral call of 2019, in the last general elections of July 2023.
“We don’t need to retire to meditate for four or five days to know what we want. “We want a first-class Catalonia,” said the candidate for Tarragona, who referred to taxes, security, debt and “deficient” public services, as well as the figures for illegal occupation of homes, to point out what they are. the reasons why the PP asks Catalans to vote.
Both Huguet, who was vice president of the General Council of Spanish Lawyers and served as a councilor of Salou until making the leap to the Cortes, and the number two on the list for Tarragona, Lorena Roldán, who has been the spokesperson for the PP in Parliament. in the legislature that is now concluding, they come from Ciudadanos.
“As you know, a few years ago I joined the PP, because it is the common home of constitutionalism, and I am not going to rest until Feijóo is the president of all Spaniards,” Roldán stated to convince the attendees, whom He recalled that the PP of Catalonia was ahead of Junts and ERC in the last general elections.
In this context, Feijóo has vindicated the history of the PP to appeal to the useful vote and ask for the support of those who thought that a new party, Ciudadanos, could better represent their political options. “Not all Spaniards are wrong in Spain when they vote for the PP, why does the Socialist Party have to be the most voted in Catalonia?” He asked himself.
In Tarragona, the PP obtained its best results in Catalan more than a decade ago, in the years 2010 and 2012, in which it obtained three deputies for this constituency, which elects a total of 18, with Rafael Luna at the helm and Alicia Sánchez -Camacho as a candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat.
