The publication by La Vanguardia and ElDiario.es of the details of the Catalunya operation, which show the connection of the Ministry of the Interior, during the Jorge Fernández Díaz era, with machinations and lies to try to implicate the leaders of the process in criminal acts, has been received with a very uncomfortable silence at the PP leadership.
But if the national president of the party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has decided not to comment on a scandal that affects Mariano Rajoy’s time at the head of the Spanish Government, the leader of the popular Catalans, Alejandro Fernández, is not willing to let the sewers of the State of that time cloud his political activity in the present.
Through a message on Interior dome, which are becoming known these days.
And he has done it forcefully. “The unity of Spain is defended with ideas and with the law: all the law, but only the law,” stated the president of the PP of Catalonia, who faced Genoa last summer following the approach to Junts to explore the Feijóo’s investiture possibilities.
“Playing with Jordi Pujol during the day and with José Manuel Villarejo at night is detrimental to Spain. And I categorically reject it,” he concludes, alluding to the negotiations between his party and Catalan nationalism – which came to fruition in the first term of José María Aznar. , in the times of CiU, but sees them as unviable after the convergent metamorphosis in Junts-, on the one hand, and the actions of the former police commissioner, to which the PP also resorted in the Kitchen case, to try to hide its irregular financing, on the other hand. other.
This new departure from the official line of the PP comes at a time when Fernández, highly questioned in Genoa since his poor results in the last Catalan elections, three years ago, has not yet been confirmed by Feijóo to renew the presidency of the party. in Catalonia in the next regional congress, which has been postponed again and will not be held until the second half of 2024.