“We condemn Mr. Abascal’s words. We condemn them and we regret them.” The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, was clear when it came to distancing himself from the statements of the president of Vox, in Argentina, in which he said that there will come a time when the Spanish people “want to hang Pedro Sánchez by the feet” .
In an interview on Telecinco, the president of the PP reiterated the condemnation that the PP made yesterday night, in a statement, although it did not serve the PSOE, due to tepidity, which for the PP represented a “crude way” of creating an artificial controversy against the PP. Feijóo insisted this Monday that the words of the Vox leader “we have immediately condemned and we do so again”, although he added that they “go along the same lines” as the President of the Government “of wanting to build a wall between the two Spains”.
The leader of the PP stressed that Abascal’s words “are condemnable”, but that the PP “has nothing to do with them”, and that is why “we condemn them and regret them”, although the PSOE, in his opinion, is interested to continue the controversy, because in this way other issues are hidden, such as the debate, tomorrow, of the amnesty law.
Later, PP spokesperson Borja Sémper stressed that Abascal’s statements “are reprehensible for two reasons”, one ethical, “because it is unacceptable for politicians to speak in terms that evoke violence”, and from the point of view political, “because they represent a lifeline for Sánchez, to divert attention”, for example, to divert attention from the amnesty. The popular politician criticized that “whenever there are problems or when Sánchez is in trouble, Abascal has the virtue of coming to his defense”, becoming a “necessary collaborator” for the “wall between Spaniards” that the PP always denounces that he intends to build. Pedro Sánchez.
In the statement that the PP made last night, it was already pointed out that “the PSOE intends to cover up with supposed meetings and dialogue tables, but also with alleged offenses on the other side of the pond, two issues: that on Tuesday the taking into consideration of the amnesty law in Congress (the first of the Legislature and, therefore, the most urgent and important for Spain in the opinion of Pedro Sánchez), and that a week ago a Salvadoran diplomat acted as arbitrator in the relations between Spain and a of its CCAA with the connivance of the President of the Government).
Due to the importance that the PP gives to the law, tomorrow the leader of the party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, will intervene in the debate on the entire bill, as he himself confirmed, because “I owe it to the reasonable majority that exists in this country against the reactionary coalition that exists in the Government”. In his opinion, the amnesty law is “the law that has most undermined the Constitution,” and that is why “I cannot hide behind this outrage,” which is why he considers that “I would be a coward” if he did not intervene tomorrow.
With the same arguments, the PP, through its spokesperson, Borja Sémper, called on Pedro Sánchez, after the meeting of the steering committee of his party, to “come forward” and be the one who “defends on behalf of the Government.” “the amnesty law and explain “the true reasons” why he approves a law “that the majority of Spaniards reject” and simply “it is payment to buy seven votes”
An amnesty that for Feijóo “is Pedro Sánchez’s first payment for his investiture” and represents “a great democratic fraud”, and the popular leader trusts that Europe will stop it, because it is not just about forgetting what happened in 2017 , but summaries and convictions for embezzlement, which is “political corruption,” are forgiven. For this reason, he said, “we trust in Europe” and that “they order them to stop.”
The PP believes that it should be Sánchez who speaks tomorrow, and will take the opportunity to explain “what he is talking about with the independentists in Switzerland and in Brussels.” A useless request, because the PP is aware that the President of the Government is not only not going to speak, but that “he is not going to be there” in what Borja Sémper considers to be “another exercise in cynicism by the President of the Government.”
During the interview, Alberto Núñez Feijóo confirmed that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has not yet called him for the meeting he announced last Wednesday, and which he found out about through the media, he complained, which leads him to think that this is a strategy by Sánchez with which he tries to emphasize that “he is capable of speaking with the independentists and with the PP.”
“One was not born yesterday,” stressed the president of the PP, and he is not “there to whitewash Sánchez’s negotiations with the independentists, in Switzerland or in Brussels, and with intermediaries.” That is why he believes that the work commissions that he talks about in the press Sánchez “have with Junts and with ERC.” With the PP he can speak in Congress, in the Senate or in the Moncloa, that is, “in the institutions, and within the Constitution”, because “within the Constitution you can speak with everyone and everything.”
However, if you call him, the president of the PP assures that he will attend the meeting with Sánchez, not because I have any confidence in the president of the Government, but out of “respect for the institution of the presidency of the Government”, although he insists that of the work commissions does not see it. “I will go to talk about Spain, not just what Sánchez wants to talk about.”
And regarding the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary, Feijóo maintained his line that the law must be renewed and changed to deepen the independence of the Judiciary, which he does not believe will happen, “given the latest appointments” , which makes them “fed up with the Government manipulating and controlling state institutions.”
If this independence of the Judiciary is deepened, there will be renewal, Feijóo emphasizes, but he also highlights that “every time there is a problem in Spain, the Government speaks of the General Council of the Judiciary, and every time there is tension, they bring out that we must comply with the Constitution.”
