Alberto Núñez Feijóo won the last general elections very clearly. He was a great success by achieving that victory in his first participation as head of the popular list for Madrid. The problem is that he could not form a government, despite the fact that he tried to do so by negotiating with the PNV and with Junts, and the majority of Congress elected Pedro Sánchez as president. Since that moment, the opposition exercised by the PP, supported by the media fanfare of various newspapers published in the capital of Spain, has been relentless in attempting to overthrow Sánchez. The political concessions to Junts and Esquerra in exchange for the investiture, especially the Amnesty law, have created an unbreathable climate of continuous confrontation in Spanish politics.
The situation has reached an extreme in which Sánchez, in an unprecedented and more than debatable maneuver, has opened a period of internal reflection that will end on Monday to find out whether or not he will leave politics. The reaction of the PP has followed the line of harshness and aggressiveness of recent months, without giving Sánchez the slightest sign of condescension. But the PP has a past and should reflect on it before exercising its inquisitorial role without a minimum of respite. The information we publish today reveals the use of dirty war methods by the PP government, during the time of Mariano Rajoy, to “politically kill Pedro Sánchez.” The Ministry of the Interior turned to the famous former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo to investigate the family of the wife of the then still general secretary of the PSOE. And, something that has great parallels with today, that plot was going to turn to Clean Hands to file the complaint. Exactly the same as today, ten years later.
The current PP may argue that this PP was not its own, but, apart from the fact that we have not been able to find a single sign of contrition for that dirty war, it would not be out of place if today it maintained a more cautious attitude towards that past. The use of the mechanisms available to a government to attack the opposition is a despicable practice. And it would force those who have inherited the party’s brand to act with greater restraint.
