Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo took part this Wednesday in the second control session of the year in which, with the victory of the PP in Galicia still recent, the President of the Government has tried to stop the euphoria of the opposition leader by trying to make him fall into the tangle of “lies” about which, in his opinion, he has become accustomed to opposing.
“You propose here that we give explanations for the electoral results of Galicia. I am here willing to give explanations, Mr. Feijóo, but you must also have the courage to explain to the 350 deputies and the 48 million Spaniards what you say in private to 16 journalists”.
“Which Feijóo am I left with? The one who in the morning would have approved amnesty and pardons or whatever it would have taken to be president? Or the one who in the afternoon calls them terrorists from the demonstrations he calls for? You are all lies “he snapped.
In his reply, the popular leader has been sarcastic and has denounced “the campaign of insidiousness and insults” that he received in Galicia and has criticized the dismal socialist results in the community. “Maybe if he had insulted me less I would have gotten a better result,” Feijóo snapped at Sánchez. “Every day he surpasses himself: he started lying about what I do, he continued lying about what I say and now he lies about what I think,” he concluded in reference to the hypothetical intentions of the opposition leader to pardon Carles Puigdemont if they were given a series of conditions that are currently chimerical.
“He said that the change was unstoppable in Galicia and also the fall of Feijóo, and here I am,” concluded the president of the PP defiantly, who reminded Sánchez that while his Government called the farmers “fashionable” and “rich” who were demonstrating on the roads of Spain, none of the ministers went to Barbate to “stand up to the Civil Guard” after the death of two agents at the hands of drug traffickers. “Everything to the independence supporters, and nothing to the civil guards,” he exclaimed.
In the next question to the Government, the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, has stressed the victory of Alfonso Rueda with an absolute majority and the electoral failure of the PSOE and Sumar after “the 22 ministers walked through Galicia” to make Campaign. “One more week and the PSOE disappears like Sumar has disappeared,” said the popular deputy, who insisted, like her leader, that the first time that Spaniards have spoken at the polls after “the investiture in exchange of amnesty” by Sánchez, the PSOE has collapsed and the PP has revalidated its majority.
In any case, the question to the first vice president and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, was about equality among Spaniards during the Sánchez Government, so the deputy general secretary of the PSOE has taken the opportunity to take advantage of the work done and has defended that “absolutely yes”, that in this chapter conscientious work has been done with the increase in the minimum wage and pensions; the increase in spending on dependency, on scholarships and for the minimum vital income; reducing the wage gap and expanding paternity and maternity leave. All of this “testifies”, according to the minister, that this “is indeed the Government of Equality”.
Representative Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo has also confronted the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, regarding the processing of the amnesty law for those involved in legal cases for their participation in the independence process in Catalonia. For the popular party, the amnesty is unconstitutional, an argument that the minister has responded by accusing the PP of leading a “big lie” with this matter after it was revealed that Feijóo had raised the hypothesis of pardoning Puigdemont, which is why Bolaños considers that she must feel “deceived and cheated” by her leader. “The Socialist Party is now just a remnant,” concluded Álvarez de Toledo in reference to the pacts with nationalist parties that, like the BNG in Galicia, have surpassed the PSOE itself in votes.
