The time has come to analyze the result of Sunday’s Galician elections in terms of Spanish politics, and Alberto Núñez Feijóo vindicates himself and makes the victory his own. For this reason, he dedicated the first of his reflections on the panorama that emerged from the Galician polls to Pedro Sánchez: “If you wanted it to be a plebiscite on my leadership, there you have the result, and if you wanted Galicia to validate its model, there you have it.” the resounding failure of the sanchista model”.
The PP is euphoric, and this Tuesday it enthusiastically received the Galician president, Alfonso Rueda, who, together with Feijóo, was received upon his arrival at the PP headquarters, on Génova Street in Madrid, to the tune of the song Xuntos , by Juan Pardo, which has become the unofficial anthem of the PP of Galicia for years. Inside the popular headquarters, the president of the Xunta, re-elected with an absolute majority last Sunday, joined in a hug with his predecessor, and both showed their joy amidst the cheers of their party colleagues.
Already before the members of the executive committee, which brings together the popular leadership and the barons of the PP – all have been there except Marga Prohens (Balearic Islands) and Alfonso Fernández Mañueco (Castilla y León), the president of the PP has retaliated against the campaign of the PP, in which he has felt attacked by the PSOE in what he considers an “irresponsible strategy”, because, as he has analyzed, by harming him, the PSOE does not care about harming the country.
“Spain is not condemned to be governed by those parties that do not believe in it,” continued Feijóo, who has accused the PSOE of aiming to remain in power. For the PP leader, the socialists’ argument is to say that the PP “is capable of thinking what they do”, in reference to the controversy over the offer of a conditional pardon for Carles Puigdemont that shook the Galician campaign.
“They lie: they need to interpret the wills of others because they are ashamed of their own actions,” exclaimed the head of the opposition, who has offered the PP as the “hope” for the Spanish: “I am not going to accompany them in their drift. “I will never be like him and I am glad that this way of doing politics has been defeated in my land,” the Galician politician charged against Sánchez, whom he reminded that PSdeG and Sumar together, the parties in the coalition of government in Spain, have not reached 16% of the vote. A result, the worst in the history of the socialists, he recalled, which has led the PSOE to “irrelevance.”
In this sense, Feijóo has predicted that from now on “Sánchez has the ones to lose”, since the Galicians, who have been the first Spaniards to have voted, after the general elections in July and the implementation of an amnesty for the procés, “have punished lies and have valued the truth” by rewarding the PP and its commitment to the “unity” of Spain.
“The tactics of the PSOE have been deeply erroneous and the strategy has been infinitely irresponsible,” said the leader of the PP, who has accused the President of the Executive of being the “crutch” of the independence movement. “History will judge,” said Feijóo, for whom the Spanish, to whom he has offered himself as an alternative, have proven to be “more responsible” than his government.
“In Galicia, a land where the roads converge, it has been demonstrated. If the alternative concentrates on the PP, it wins, if the Spaniards unite around a project, the project of Sánchez and his partners ends,” concluded the leader of the opposition, for whom last Sunday’s victory “is much more than a victory”, since it represents a “test of confidence at the most delicate moment of democracy”, in which the PP, in his opinion, is the only guarantor of constitutional Spain, of the continuity of the “common project” born in 1978.
For Spain to “remain what it is”, that is, “a country for everyone, with different accents and landscapes, but with unity”, Feijóo offers himself, convinced that he will have the “opportunity” to reach a “larger” majority. “. “We Spaniards are aware of our historical responsibility. We have shown that Spain cries out for a different way of governing. We are the only alternative and I want to address all those citizens who do not resign themselves to the auctioning of equality and their rights. We will never betray their confidence,” he promised.
