The Central Government and the leadership of the PSOE are forced to take a defensive position again, after the electoral defeat in Galicia. In front of a PP euphoric for the victory, despite the fact that they thought that Alberto Núñez Feijóo was already about to receive the “liquidation”. Faced with the internal contestation that is once again headed by the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page. And even in the face of a Carles Puigdemont who continues to unblock the Amnesty law when there is already a deadline – March 7 – to reach an agreement… Or let everything go to waste.
The Executive rushes to try to lower the enthusiasm of the PP after revalidating the presidency of the Xunta: “Feijóo will continue in the opposition”, they say in Moncloa. “We are where we were, the Galician elections have an exclusively territorial interpretation and have no national impact”, they say, to reject that the socialist fiasco has a destabilizing or weakening effect on the Sánchez Government.
“This is not a second round of anything”, warned yesterday the spokeswoman of the central government, Pilar Alegría. “The reading of the result of the Galician elections must be done in a strictly territorial key”, he remarked. In the same line as the leadership of the PSOE, after disassociating the Galician electoral setback from the political project or Sánchez’s parliamentary alliances. “There has been no punishment for the amnesty”, they clarify in Moncloa.
Alegría tried to downplay the outpouring of the PP: “The president of the Spanish Government is Pedro Sánchez, and the leader of the opposition, Alberto Núñez Feijóo. This has not changed and will not change.” And he insisted that the goal of the central government remains “more employment, more rights and more coexistence”, a task that is not affected, he stressed, by this electoral result. “There is no distraction in this roadmap,” he said.
“It is necessary to contextualize the electoral result in Galicia”, they insist in Moncloa. “There has been no transfer of votes from the PSOE to the PP and, therefore, there is no national reading. The political map does not change”, they reiterate.
At the same time, the first vice-president of the Spanish Government and deputy general secretary of the PSOE, María Jesús Montero, again took up Emiliano García-Page, who the day before celebrated that, with the absolute majority of the PP in Galicia, Puigdemont did not win. “I don’t understand, because you always have to know, when your team is playing, which shirt they are wearing, and be happy that their brand and their team are getting good results,” replied Montero to the To be. The leadership of the PSOE once again placed Page “on the outside” of the party.
Puigdemont, meanwhile, continues unyielding with the amnesty. “No one in Catalonia would understand that the law was not approved”, insisted Alegría. “It is unthinkable that there is no agreement”, said Montero. “There will be an Amnesty law”, they conclude in Moncloa, despite Junts’ latest moves, after supporting independence in Parliament or withdrawing their initiatives in Congress.
