The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has taken advantage of his intervention before the plenary session of the Congress of the European People’s Party in Bucharest to attack the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the Amnesty law while denouncing the ‘Koldo case’ . “These are two issues that go hand in hand in my country, in one, public money is stolen and in the other, rights are stolen,” stressed Feijóo, who has asked for support from his European political family to fight against their “attacks” on the Rule of Law and the independence of the Judiciary in Spain. His appeal has received a response from the president of the EPP, Manfred Weber, but none of the prime ministers or presidents of the party who have spoken today in the Romanian capital have raised the issue.
“Today a European Government is going to leave very serious crimes against the heart of the European Union unpunished, including terrorism, embezzlement and the declaration of independence of a part of the country,” Feijóo denounced after the agreement announced yesterday between the PSOE and Junts about the Amnesty law. Sánchez’s Government “is more cornered every day and is easier to extort by those who put the rule of law as a price. This is the amnesty that the Government of Spain is currently agreeing with the secessionists.”
Feijóo said he was answering “the questions” that many EPP delegates have asked him these days during the congress held in the Romanian capital, where the PP is attending with the second largest delegation, “both for the amnesty for corruption crimes, of terrorism and against the territorial integrity of Spain, as well as the political corruption in the Government that sadly has already reached the European Public Prosecutor’s Office”. The Spanish delegation in the EPP feels “comforted” by the support of its European political family because it feels “sheltered” by a Europe, it said, “that cannot allow attacks on the rule of law, on independence to bear fruit. judicial and for a prime minister to obtain his investiture in exchange for judicial impunity. “A majority of Spaniards see in the PP and the EU the guarantee to stop these absurdities, today we cannot disappoint their trust,” concluded Feijóo.
The PP leader’s pleas were answered in the intervention, immediately afterwards, by the president of the EPP and head of his group in the European Parliament, Manfred Weber. “Sánchez is becoming a puppet of Carles Puigdemont,” said the Bavarian, leader of the German CSU, who has drawn parallels between the struggle of the PP in Spain with the one successfully led by Donald Tusk in Poland. “The socialists are about to approve an amnesty law to forgive terrorist crimes. What a shame, Sánchez! What a shame, the socialists! Long live Tusk and long live Alberto, who will restore the rule of law in Spain,” he proclaimed Weber. Feijóo and Weber’s interventions took place immediately before the speech by Ursula von der Leyen, who has asked the EPP to be her candidate to preside over the next European Commission. Feijóo yesterday guaranteed her votes (it is expected that she will be elected by acclamation) but demanded a greater commitment from her in defending the rule of law. In her speech prior to her nomination, the German has however ignored the approval of the Amnesty law and the PP’s complaints about Sánchez’s violations of the rule of law.
