Alberto Núñez Feijóo defends the pact reached on Tuesday in Valencia, between Vox and the PP, for the popular candidate, Carlos Mazón, to be president of the Generalitat Valenciana, and assures that he will not accept lessons from the PSOE about who can and will with whom you cannot agree.
It won’t for two reasons. The first, that the PP wanted to speak with the PSOE, so that it would support the list with the most votes, which was that of the PP, and the Socialists refused to speak with the popular ones, which invalidates them to criticize with whom the PP speaks or agrees.
And secondly, and more importantly for Feijóo, that the PSOE cannot give the PP lessons in pacts, “after having agreed with the most radical left-wing populism in Europe, such as the PCE, Podemos and Sumar”, he said in an interview on EsRadio, this Wednesday.
How can he not give him lessons after agreeing “with the Catalan separatists” and when the Prime Minister has governed with the support of Bildu. “So, no legitimacy to give lessons on pacts.”
For Feijóo, the conclusion is that what the PSOE wants is “that if the PSOE loses the elections, the PP, even if it wins, cannot agree with anyone, but it can make a two-Frankenstein government.” The president of the PP explains that in Valencia, where the PP has won the elections, “Vox is decisive” and the PP put a condition “that it seemed reasonable to us that a convicted person be part of the government, and Vox agreed, and that unblocked the agreement, which is very simple”.
The president of the PP contrasts the attitude of the PSOE in Valencia, with that maintained by the Regionalist party of Cantabria, the one chaired by Miguel Ángel Revilla, who will abstain from the investiture of the PP candidate, who has won the elections. “If that had happened in Valencia, we would not have found ourselves faced with the urgent need to agree with Vox”, despite the fact that Vox has gained representation in Cantabria and their votes would have been enough, but it shows that the PP does not have a desire to agree with Vox, but it will if you need it. As an example, he also said that in the Canary Islands he has achieved a government agreement with the Canary Islands Coalition.
Of course, Alberto Núñez Feijóo made it clear that the support of Revilla does not have as a contrast to hide any case of corruption that may occur, such as the one that the courts are investigating in the so-called Highways case, which affects the transport council of the Government of Revilla .
On the possibility that Feijóo himself agrees with Vox after the July 23 elections, the PP president assures that he is out to win, and to have a majority that allows him to govern alone, but everything will depend on the results. Of course, the popular leader makes an offer to Sánchez, he will abstain in his investiture if he wins the elections and does not agree with the independentistas and with Podemos, “so that he can govern.”
In his opinion, “if Sánchez said this, the Spanish would already know who is going to be president.” The president of the PP gave as an example the attitude of Felipe González in 1996, who lost the elections by a little more than one point, and could have tried to form a government by agreeing with the CiU or the PNV, “but he understood that Aznar had won and that it was up to him to he will try to form a government”, something he considers normal, “but Sánchez is willing to be president by losing the elections”.
Feijóo assured that he has already thought about who will be the financial manager if “a very solid and unquestionable person, from a technical and international point of view” comes to the Government, although he refused to give the name. He also claims to already have a “good team for the Ministry of Justice”, with which he is already drawing up the reform of the Judiciary, but he did not want to give names either.
The president of the PP did not reveal who will be his number two either, although he pointed out some lines, such as that he has experience in the Madrid Assembly and in the Government of the Community of Madrid. On the Madrid list there will also be “people who were active in Ciudadanos for a long time”, without giving names either, and he only gave one name, that of Pablo Vázquez, president of the Reformism 21 foundation, who has been president of Renfe and has had various charges with Rajoy, who will accompany him on the list.
