The leader of the opposition has not felt at all satisfied by the explanations offered by the President of the Government three weeks after his last appearance, which was followed by a five-day “retreat” that was not for reflection, Alberto Núñez has pointed out. Feijóo, but to “think about how to face the judicial mess” that his government, his party and his family environment have open in “several judicial instances.”
For Feijóo, the good intentions of Pedro Sánchez, who has expressed his desire to move Spanish politics away from tension, have barely lasted “a few minutes”, since in his speech, the president of the PP has reproached him, he has immediately gone on to talk about the “mud machine”, “ultras” and “reactionaries” and has “disqualified” the foreign policy of former president José María Aznar.
The leader of the PP has reiterated after Sánchez’s appearance that the president continues without giving explanations about the accusations of influence peddling faced by his wife, Begoña Gómez, which this time have been asked of him in the hundred questions that the popular parliamentary group made public yesterday, and has once again threatened to use the absolute majority in the Senate to request the appearance of both.
“Stop playing games,” exclaimed Feijóo, who has urged Sánchez to stop “playing the victim” and to answer if he knew that his wife sent letters of recommendation from companies that his Government hired or if he knew that Begoña Gómez “ It has the status of being investigated” in a Madrid court. “That is wrong, it is neither ethical nor aesthetic,” he said.
Feijóo has escaped the accusations of Sánchez, who in his speech has referred to him and Santiago Abascal, the leader of Vox, equating them as “extremists” and “anti-democrats” and has accused them of not “respecting the rule of law.” , ensuring that with this he “disqualifies the Spaniards”, whom he “takes for fools”. But this “movie strategy”, as the head of the opposition has described it, would require, in his opinion, a better interpretation.
“The continuous overacting gives him away and embarrasses us all,” Feijóo criticized in reference to the letter in which Sánchez threatened to resign, the rocket with which he describes the Spanish economy and now the open diplomatic conflict with Argentina. “Do you know what the biggest hit of your foreign policy is: Palestine, Ukraine, Gibraltar? No, the front pages of the international press corporation,” argued the leader of the PP.
“You did it alone,” Feijóo said ironically, displaying a poster with the headlines of Le Monde, Le Figaro, The New York Times or Il Corriere de la Sera, newspapers of international prestige that are not the “digital tabloids” to which they refer. Sánchez has referred to as instigators of the “mud machine” that he denounces and that they published news about the judicial investigation opened against Begoña Gómez for alleged influence peddling.
And regarding the diplomatic crisis with Argentina, which Sánchez has not touched on in his speech, Feijóo has wondered why the ambassador in Mexico was not called for consultations when the president of this American country “attacked” the head of state Spanish, King Felipe VI, and it has been done due to the insults of the Argentine president, Javier Milei, to Begoña Gómez.
Given this situation, the PP demands the dismissal of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, “for having put the interests of Spain at the service of the interests of the PSOE.” “What they are doing has no name,” exclaimed Feijóo, who sees Spain’s image in the world as compromised and fears that the Government’s decision will affect the half a million Spaniards who live in Argentina and the companies that do business there.
“He doesn’t care about the truth,” said Feijóo, who has accused Sánchez of being “willing to do anything to cover up problems,” including threatening journalists and judges to “raise the wall” with which the president of the The Government intends, in its opinion, to “divide the Spaniards”, for which it uses “lightly” all the “possible conflicts”, in this case that of Palestine, in which it has not succeeded, despite the coordination with Norway and Ireland, he has reproached him, for the “consensus” he was looking for.
“You are not the measure of all things,” Feijóo proclaimed upon the recognition by the Sánchez Government of the Palestinian State. “They did not lift a finger in the Sahara or in Venezuela,” he reproached him, for which he asked him to “save” the “lessons of humanity.” “You come here trying to establish yourself as an international leader when it is not possible for you to lead your own Government,” he reminded him in reference to the bill to prohibit pimping that his partners knocked down yesterday.
In his reply, Feijóo accused the PSOE spokesperson, Patxi López, of having defended that Begoña Gómez “is a State institution” and asked him if, in that case, he should write letters of recommendation for companies to which he she hires her husband’s government. And as for Sánchez’s speech, it has been asked why if the ambassador in Russia was not recalled after the invasion of Ukraine so as not to contravene the consensus of the European Union, he announces the recognition of Palestine as a State without coordinating with the rest of the member countries. “On June 9, we Spaniards are called to the polls, we are going to see who they vote for and what the response is,” she challenged to conclude his intervention.
