The PP is clear that on May 28 there will be a winner of the municipal elections, the first at a national level since the general ones that Sánchez won, and that winner will be the PP, which after seven years will be the first in an election. But Alberto Núñez Feijóo also knows that this victory may not be transferred to the governments, because in some of the places where he wins, the union of the PSOE and the parties to his left can take away his chances of governing. The other way around can also happen. It happened four years ago in the Community of Madrid.
For this reason, and on the eve of the start of the campaign for the 28-M elections, the president of the PP questioned Sánchez again, this time from Cádiz, where it may happen that the PP wins, but that the left governs, so that there is a compromise between the two, the leaders of the two main parties, so that each one lets the one who wins the elections, the one who has the most votes at the polls, govern, and not take away that possibility from the other with pacts regardless of that result.
Feijóo is willing to make this commitment “to let the PSOE vote where they win”, although the PP can form a government through alliances, although he did not mention it, it is assumed that with Vox, “as long as Sánchez agrees to respect that in another city council or another autonomous community where the PP wins, it can govern”. In the opinion of the popular leader, “this is what will rebuild confidence in the institutions and in politics.”
The president of the PP stresses that he can make that offer to Sánchez because “we owe ourselves neither to anything nor to anyone” and “we have no pacts with anyone, only with what comes out of the polls.” The PP, Feijóo stressed, “is not subject to any pressure from any minority party”, and for this reason, “it is worth nothing to us other than winning”, which is what should be worth, in his opinion, to the PSOE.
It was not the only outstretched hand that Feijóo threw at Pedro Sánchez this Thursday. He proposes another pact, this time, to reverse the reforms that abolished sedition and reduced penalties for embezzlement in certain cases, “as we did with the yes is yes law”, the PSOE and the PP hand in hand, something that that the socialist government does not even want to hear about it.
And that is why Feijóo insists: “Do with me what I will do without you, to replace the penalties for sedition and corruption. If you do not do it with me, I will do it when I am president with the votes of the polls. rectify as in the law of yes is yes, and let’s recover the dignity of our country”.
The president of the PP makes this offer, at this time, after the European Union is proposing “not to lower the penalties for corruption as the government has done with the crime of embezzlement”, but instead proposes an increase in penalties. He refers to a new directive of the European Union, of which the main elements were known yesterday, which intends to punish “political corruption” with more penalties.
And to explain more specifically what he wants, and after the controversy fueled by the PSOE about his intention to repeal laws approved by the Government of Sánchez, of which he spoke in a meeting with conservative prosecutors, he summarized it again in a sentence that pronounced last week in the Senate: “That is repealing sanchismo”, because “the list of nonsense of sanchismo is too long and painful”
And he explained it, it is about “reducing the level of legal nonsense” that the current Executive has made, reforming the yes is yes law and “returning the crime of sedition to the Penal Code, in order to defend the dignity of democracy and the nation”. That and to recover the penalties for embezzlement that have been lowered, he said, to satisfy the requests of the independentistas convicted by the process. “It is unsustainable that the corrupt and those who attempt against the unity of Spain continue to benefit,” he said.
In order to achieve all this, Feijóo invites all those who have ever supported this party “which was born with the Constitution” and who at some point stopped doing so to support the PP, in clear reference to those who in the last electoral calls they voted for Vox, but not only, it also invites “those who trusted Sánchez and have been betrayed”, and in a more general way, it intends, he said, “to unite those who want a change at the polls”.
