Alberto Núñez Feijóo has expressed this afternoon from Tarragona his party’s willingness to open a new stage in Catalonia, and has indicated “the willingness for a government different from that of the last ten years.” On his fourth visit to Catalonia in this pre-campaign – tomorrow, Wednesday, he is in Girona – the leader of the Popular Party made a short intervention after a tour of the fish market, where he put on the table the need to turn the page on the ‘procés’, understanding which has been a “bad business” for the Catalans.
In this appeal to a “different government”, Feijóo has not made explicit references to possible post-electoral alliances nor, therefore, to eventual support for the PSC. He has thus left this message on the table in a campaign in which the popular people emphasize the decisive role they can play after 12-M in the formation of majorities. The popular leader has focused his speech on denouncing the high tax burden that Catalans have, “with taxes that do not exist in other autonomies.” A tax system, he has said, that contrasts with the high level of debt and the deficit of the Generalitat. “Catalonia has lost speed and weight in the Spanish economy,” he indicated.
In this context, he recalled the commitment of the PP to reduce personal income tax on incomes below 40,000 euros and, in the context of the subsequent meeting with the Tarragona Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, the reduction of VAT on basic foodstuffs.
On 12-M, he said, the PP presents a candidacy “without tricks or cardboard” in which it asks for the vote of the “constitutionalists, those who want to turn the page on the process, and those who are betting on the future.” Feijóo has been accompanied by the candidate Alejandro Fernández, who has focused his speech on the programmatic proposals for the fishing sector, also based on the reduction of fiscal pressure and measures so that it can compete with imports from abroad.
The president of the PP is maintaining an active involvement in the Catalan campaign, both to open a new stage in the Parliament and to understand that the results are going to have an impact in Spain. This Wednesday he will be in Girona, and on April 23 he will attend the Diada de Sant Jordi.
