The PP has closed this Sunday the meeting in which Alberto Núñez Feijóo and his barons have illuminated the Córdoba declaration, a “manifesto for a plural Spain of free and equal citizens” that lays the foundations of its political strategy to try to shorten everything this legislature as much as possible and reach Moncloa as soon as possible. And that is summarized in accusing the PSOE of double corruption: political, due to the “blackmail” of its transfers to the independence movement, and economic, due to the Koldo case.
In the speech that preceded Feijóo’s, the president of Andalusia, Juanma Moreno, defended the collaboration between the different autonomous communities managed by the PP, in which 70% of the Spanish population lives, and contrasted it with the “imposition” and the “invasion of powers” that he blames on Pedro Sánchez’s Executive.
Moreno has wondered when the President of the Government is going to give explanations about the mask purchase and sale scheme that charged huge commissions during the hardest part of the pandemic and whose investigation has already caused the departure of former Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos from the socialist group: “This is beginning to give off a whiff of the end of the cycle,” said the Andalusian president, who has accused the PSOE of “inventing” a motion of censure to reach Moncloa in 2018: “Where is the corruption now?” , it is finished.
After this speech, the president of the PP has exhibited all the territorial power of his party, which governs in 14 of the autonomous communities and cities and has praised the management of all his barons, starting with his host, Juanma Moreno, who came to power after “forty years of drought” for the popular in a territory of socialist hegemony until 2018; followed by his countryman Alfonso Rueda, who has achieved the fifth consecutive absolute majority for the PP, after the four that Feijóo himself achieved, and continuing with Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the president of the Community of Madrid, a leader who has demonstrated her “desire to win.”
And so on until naming all the autonomies in which the PP has government responsibilities: Cantabria, La Rioja, Murcia, Valencian Community, Aragon, the Canary Islands (where it has the vice presidency, which is why it has joked about the hour difference with respect to the Peninsula and has announced that the presidency has to arrive), Extremadura (with whose president, María Guardiola, he has had a lapse and has given her the last name Gallardo), the Balearic Islands, Castilla y León and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.
“We are here for this Spain,” Feijóo continued his speech without referring to the five communities where the PP does not govern (Catalonia, the Basque Country, Navarra, Asturias and Castilla-La Mancha) and in which it needs to improve results, especially all in the first two, to pave his way to the Moncloa and evict Sánchez from the presidential residence, “a president who abdicates his responsibilities” and “does not govern”, he assured, because “he accepts his status as a delegate of the independence movement.” .
“Political corruption and economic corruption have gone hand in hand,” said the popular leader, who has pointed them out as “the two sides of the Sanchismo coin”, whose balance after one hundred days of “supposed government” is not other than a single law, that of Amnesty, because, in Feijóo’s opinion, “the only concern that Sánchez has had is to satisfy his partners.”
In this sense, the head of the opposition has disgraced the Government for still having no budget: “The only accounts it has are those of the corrupt plot that embarrasses socialist voters,” he has stressed, and has contrasted the “decency” of the PP to the PSOE’s way of governing. “It is our commitment and our obligation: to exercise exemplarity and dignity in politics, and we have come to Córdoba to sign it,” he stated.
The PP claims to be the “first party in Spain” due to its territorial power and number of voters and offers itself as an alternative “in the face of the chaos and blackmail that divides and fractures” Spanish society, which it attributes to the PSOE: “We are a free party and we are not willing to bend the knee to the minority separatism in Spain,” Feijóo argued.
In this sense, the PP proposes a “responsible autonomy” that “strengthens and benefits the nation” in the face of separatism, which does not prevent there from being a “legitimate competition” between communities that “benefits everyone if it is exercised from the loyalty”. But this defense of a citizenship made up of “free and equal citizens” in plurality has not been translated into a concrete proposal for autonomous financing, pending what the Government proposes, which the PP asks, in any case , which avoids “privileges” and opts for “multilaterality” in the negotiation.
With the thorny issue of financing in the air, the Córdoba declaration includes a series of measures applicable to the entire national territory, ranging from free education from zero to three years to a university entrance test with homogeneous criteria in all autonomous communities or the design of common curricula for all educational centers, as well as a national water pact and proposals in the health field, such as a single vaccination schedule.
Be that as it may, the PP hopes that this legislature will be short, although it announces that “it will be as long as the benefit that Sánchez’s partners want to obtain”, and predicts that the Government “will fall for the same reasons, lies and corruption, with which he arrived” when the independentists “get tired” and leave him “in ostracism and indignity.
“But regardless of the moment of the fall, Sánchez will not take down his country as he is taking down his party, nor will we allow it as the first party in Spain or from the autonomous governments where the PP governs,” he promised. Feijóo, for whom the current Government is mired in “disgrace.” But the Spaniards “cannot be hostages to the panic and paralysis of the PSOE and its partners,” concluded the leader of the PP, who has asked to “turn on the lights of hope.”
