While waiting for what Alberto Núñez Feijóo says, who will appear at the PP headquarters on Génova Street in Madrid at 1:30 p.m., the first reactions from the opposition have come via Mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, has pointed out that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, “is not leaving with hot water.”
“As for my prediction of what he is going to do: he doesn’t even leave with hot water,” Almeida posted on the networks – recovering the video of some previous statements – as a first reaction to Sánchez’s announcement that, after During the five days of reflection in which he has kept his possible resignation unknown, he will continue to lead the Executive.
For her part, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has indicated that she was not surprised by Sánchez’s decision, whom she has accused of spending five days thinking about how to “attack the judges, political rivals and the independent press.” “The President of the Government is absolutely shameless” and “knows no limits,” Ayuso exclaimed.
The President of the Government, Ayuso stated before the press at the closing of the I inter-municipal meeting of the PP of Madrid held in Las Rozas, operates under the maxim of “either with me or against me.” “I think he should give fewer speeches without journalists and perhaps more press conferences with questions to give explanations. His statements seem almost a joke to me. All he wants is power without control, without counterweights and not to govern Spain, but to manage power, which is the only thing he does,” said Sánchez’s great antagonist.
José María Aznar, who spoke at the closing of a FAES cycle on “Rule of law and promotion of democracy”, also referred to the crisis opened by Sánchez: “This morning we witnessed a gigantic mockery of democracy and the citizens,” said the former President of the Government, who sees the current Executive as “precarious” and supported by a majority that intends to “decree an amnesty that will make its crimes unpunished and confederate the State.”
For Aznar, “Sanchism has fueled a dynamic based on blocs in Spain”, in contrast to what, from his point of view, characterized the transition. In this sense, the former president has criticized Sánchez’s leadership in the PSOE: “he has been willing to dynamit a systemic party to hand it over in populist magma to a sum of radical minorities.”
And also the leader of the PP in Catalonia, Alejandro Fernández, has attacked Sánchez’s decision, understanding that he is above the law by making it clear to the Spanish people that “only he knows what is dignified and fair.” In a comment on For Sánchez, it is not the judges who can condemn Puigdemont or prosecute his wife: only he can decide that, and no one else but him.
