It is one thing to talk, and another to negotiate, agree and give in. The first is what the PP did with Junts to explore the possibilities of Alberto Núñez Feijóo being sworn in as president, but that was it, as Elías Bendodo acknowledged to the press after a working meeting with the Barcelona municipal team: “Our “red lines are known,” concluded the deputy secretary of regional policy of the PP. However, the popular leader has openly defended the need for political dialogue with all parties, and the capacity of his party to do so.
After yesterday Carles Puigdemont stated that if Junts had invested Feijóo, “all this would not happen”, in reference to the judicial and parliamentary response that the controversial processing of an amnesty law at the request of the PSOE in Congress has received, Bendodo He has endorsed the former president’s statement and accepted it as good: indeed, he assured, because the leader of the PP would not have given in as, in his opinion, Pedro Sánchez did to continue in the Moncloa.
However, the popular leader, who was characterized at the time by defending the plurinationality of the State and who is considered one of the possible emissaries from Genoa to Puigdemont’s entourage, has admitted that his party “has the ability to speak to everyone.” , including Junts, something that should be “framed within democratic normality.” “We have nothing to hide,” argued Bendodo.
Even so, and after the meeting held by the leader of the PP in Barcelona City Council, Daniel Sirera, with the president and spokesperson of the Junts group in Parliament, Albert Batet and Josep Rius, respectively, was revealed, Bendodo has assured that he has no contacts with Carles Puigdemont or Jordi Turull, general secretary of the independence party. In any case, he has stressed that dialogue can be held, but without reaching the “unacceptable concessions” that he attributes to the Sánchez Government: “We have not reached that point by any means,” he has ruled.
The deputy secretary of regional and municipal policy of the PP traveled this rainy Friday from Malaga to Barcelona, ??where he met with the leader of the party in Catalonia, Alejandro Fernández, and the president of the municipal group in Barcelona, ??Daniel Sirera, in a meeting of joint work with the municipal group. With the regional elections on the horizon, Bendodo has left until after the European elections, as had already been indicated, the holding of the pending congress of the Catalan Popular Party and the election of the candidate. And, before Fernández himself, he has not wanted to publicly advance if he has the support of the PP leadership.
Asked about this, whether he wants to be the PP candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat, Alejandro Fernández has said that he does not want to talk now about “his book”, about himself, but he has indicated that he will make a statement at the time. The results of the next Galician elections will allow us to elucidate the current strength of Alberto Núñez Feijóo and, consequently, will clarify the project that can be defined in Catalonia.
