Moderate tone but forceful in his arguments, and in his criticism. This is what can be expected from the president of the PP in the debate that will be held on Tuesday in the Senate, between Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo. It will be a propositional debate, but it will not be a white-collar debate, because the popular leader already anticipated his interest today “to talk about Spain, without insulting anyone.”
But that does not mean that there will not be criticism, and the main one, that is dedicated to sweetening reality and not facing the true situation that Spain is experiencing, and therefore not making the decisions that it should.
“They have insulted me a lot, and I accept it,” said Feijóo at the beginning of the political course in Andalusia, in which he accompanied the Andalusian president, Juanma Moreno, as he will do on Friday in Madrid with Isabel Díaz Ayuso. He accepts it because he is used to it: “In Galicia, it has been the sport of the nationalists, podemitas and socialists, but the more they insulted me, the more votes and the more absolute majorities I got,” he said. “What I am not going to accept is that he insults the Spanish by making up reality.”
This is what, in the opinion of Núñez Fijóo, Sánchez is doing, and what it is feared that the Prime Minister is going to do on Tuesday in the Senate debate, which he was grateful for, after yesterday’s criticism from the PP leadership, even if it’s just to talk a little, and about the things that interest Sánchez, not the Spaniards.
He accuses him of making up reality by “putting out his chest” due to the containment of inflation, which is only due, Feijóo said, to the drop in fuel prices, but the rest of things have risen three tenths, and accuses him of making up the reality for boasting that Spain is the only country that is growing, it has done so by 1.1%, when in fact it is the last country in Europe to manage to recover the GDP it had before the pandemic, and boasts of job creation when jobs were destroyed in July.
The president of the PP is aware that they will again accuse him of being a catastrophist, but he assured that all the experts agree that “there is a risk of entering a slowdown, which can even lead us to a recession,” he said, and the Government knows it, if no, they would no longer speak, at least some ministers, of “a hard autumn and winter”.
But what annoys Feijóo the most is that “they despise what the PP says”, because they deny reality, and “when reality is evident, they will be late in coming up with solutions”. This is what is happening with the energy crisis, which in Feijóo’s opinion has meant “a failure of Sánchez’s policy” by wasting all the energy sources at his disposal, such as thermal and nuclear, which made Spain a “more vulnerable” country, he said.
To this is added the “irresponsibility in foreign policy” that has led to “the country that sold the most gas to Spain, has gone on to sell it to Italy and is reaching major agreements with France.” “And now he says that he wants to go to Algeria, he should have gone before he had a problem,” he stressed.
Its formula is that it trusts Spain and the Spanish people more and bets on incentives for savings, on bonuses for companies that manage to reduce their consumption, and that it be the first to set an example, with a savings plan in the administration.
