“It must be for some reason”, Alberto Núñez Feijóo said yesterday up to three times to refer to the circumstances that have led the president of the Spanish Government to write a letter to the citizens that has plunged the country into “stupor” , as the leader of the PP recognized.
But the head of the opposition will not give respite to Pedro Sánchez in his five days of reflection and, waiting for him to resolve the unknown about his possible resignation on Monday, yesterday he appeared at the headquarters of Génova to criticize what he considers an irresponsible abandonment of duties and “childish”, more typical of an “angry teenager”, he claimed, than of a public servant.
Feijóo is a participant in the uncertainty caused by the possibility of Sánchez’s resignation in Spanish society. But aside from the PP’s suspicions that its announcement may have electoral motivations for the Catalan elections on May 12 and the European elections in June, and the hypothesis that the crisis will be resolved with a question of confidence in Congress, it will not grant the benefit of doubt to the socialist leader: “It must be for some reason”.
The leadership of the PP is awaiting the scope of the complaint for alleged influence peddling presented by an ultra-right organization against Begoña Gómez, Sánchez’s wife, which is based on journalistic information that the PSOE considers false and that have leading the Prosecutor’s Office to request its filing. However, even if the judicial process is short, the opposition also suspects that the move by the President of the Government may have some hidden motivation, perhaps related to the espionage for which he be subject through the Pegasus program. “It must be for some reason”.
Be that as it may, Feijóo again lashed out at Sánchez, who he describes as the “protagonist” of a “show” that has brought Spain to “international shame” and whose script he wrote himself, and reserved for the rest of the Spaniards the role of simple “extras”.
For the president of the PP, the general secretary of the PSOE only thinks “of himself”, as if a political leader with government responsibilities could behave like a “fixed and intermittent” employee in the exercise of his position, abandoning his obligations ” for their own interest and convenience”.
And once again he demanded immediate explanations about “the cases of corruption that affect his government, his party and his environment”. A simultaneous triple front in which his family has been immersed and which has led Sánchez to his unusual reflective pause. “He has to do it, it’s been weeks since these scandals became known and there have still been no answers. It must be for some reason,” he surmised.
“Behind this is not the opposition, but justice”, he pointed out before rejecting as insufficient the justifications provided so far by the socialists, behind which he sees a smoke screen: “If Sánchez is taken words ultra, extreme right and fathosfera, I would have nothing to say. It has no solid principles or political project or general budgets. And so, since he cannot rule by adherence, he pretends to rule by compassion. We don’t allow it,” he declared.
The allusions to the “evil” right and ultra-right and to Sánchez’s “faces with toga” in his letter, Feijóo believes, obey the fact that he is in an impasse from which he is trying to get out “by inventing smear campaigns against everything “. But this strategy, according to the president of the PP, turns him into a “spokesman for the lawfare lobby indistinguishable from his partners”, with reference to the judicial persecution of which they say the Catalan independence leaders are the subject.
Faced with this situation, and after the “unfortunate period of decline and the breaking of amnesty and corruption”, the “first party of Spain”, as defined by Feijóo, wanted to transmit a “message of hope for the Spaniards”, and the PP offered itself as an alternative: “Spain deserves another president who acts with serenity and maturity and will have it”, predicted Feijóo. “Clearly it’s worth it.”
