A prophet in his land, Alberto Núñez Feijóo took a mass bath in Galicia this Saturday, where the PP has gathered more than four thousand people in the Fontes do Sar pavilion in Santiago de Compostela to launch the 313 popular candidacies for the municipalities Galicians in the May 28 elections.
First in Galician, like all the speakers who have preceded him at the meeting, and later in Spanish, the PP president has taken stock in his speech of the year that he has led the main opposition party and has assured that he is “prepared to win again” after the four absolute majorities he won in Galicia, but this time in Spain.
For this, he has praised, “the support, enthusiasm and responsibility” of the Galician PP, which he has set as an example of a “well-soldiered and built” party in the face of divisions and the confrontation that he blames on coalitions . For this reason, he has ordered his candidates, both those who start with an advantage and those who find it more difficult a priori, to go out and win against the socialists of the PSG and the nationalists of the BNG, who “do not need to obtain an absolute majority “.
This need to achieve a “sufficient majority” has flown over the entire event, since Feijóo is aware that the PP, as in Galicia, can only reach the government if its representatives are more than the sum of all its adversaries. And that is why the conservative leader has established victory at the polls as a “responsibility” for all candidates and has urged them to “widen” their support until they achieve it.
“It is possible to win with a large majority as in Galicia. We will also do it in Spain with humility, self-criticism and self-demand. I said that I was coming to beat Pedro Sánchez and we are going to achieve this objective if we work together”, stressed the president of the PP, who has challenged the Prime Minister to gather as many people as he did at a rally in Galicia.
“It is not necessary to explain that I carry Galicia in my heart,” Feijóo said when changing from Galician to Spanish. And from there it has come to offer itself as an alternative for all of Spain, presenting its management at the head of the Xunta for almost 14 years as a guarantee of its “traceability for better and for worse” as opposed to the “mess” that, in In his opinion, they characterize the government of Pedro Sánchez.
To underline the division that he attributes to the Spanish Executive in the face of the “general challenges” facing the country, Feijóo has referred to the “running ministers”, in reference to those who are preparing to leave the Government to lead socialist candidacies in the municipal; a vice president who is building the “Yolanda space”, in reference to Yolanda Díaz, without counting the party, Unidas Podemos, which elected her to the position, and a president who campaigns with “decorations and extras”, in reference to to the electoral videos that Pedro Sánchez has starred in in recent weeks.
“Sooner rather than later, the policy that deals with what is important will leave behind inexperience and frivolity,” Feijóo continued, who has developed from that same syntactic structure the main proposals that the PP proposes for Spain: that the sum that the “radical minorities” stop imposing themselves on the majorities and that the Government does not depend on those who “want to leave” Spain.
To do this, the head of the opposition proposes transforming Sánchez’s “resistance manual” into Feijóo’s “good government manual”, with which he promises that citizens will forget the “nightmare” of the PSOE’s “collision government” and United We Can and Spain will once again be “a great nation” and will recover the “respect for institutions” that was forged in the constitutional pact of 1978, when the different political families “shaked hands”.
In this sense, and before a devoted audience, Feijóo has set the Galician model as an example against Basque and Catalan nationalism and has ensured that the PP better defends the interests of Galicia than the PNV those of the Basque Country, because it claims the “characteristics ” typical of the territory without “going against anyone”, since “you can be Galician and Spanish at the same time”, he has argued.