Vitoria and especially Barcelona have allowed the PP to demonstrate that if the others want it, it is capable of agreeing. The party leadership recalls that they have done so since May 28 with the Canary Islands Coalition, with the Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC), with the PSOE and also with Vox. The popular ones believe that after the last-minute agreements their political adversaries will not be able to accuse them of only knowing how to agree with the ultra party. For this reason, they puff up their chests for “having prevented the independentistas” from governing Vitoria and Barcelona.
The reasons for these agreements, according to the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, are “the sense of State of the PP.” Thus he defended the agreements that led him to vote for the socialist candidates in Vitoria and Barcelona, ??so that EH Bildu and Junts, two pro-independence parties, would not take over the mayoralties. Pacts that are born “from the principles that we defend, no matter how much Pedro Sánchez does not have them,” Feijóo accused yesterday.
The president of the PP met his territorial power yesterday in the Retiro park in Madrid, and before his barons, those who have already reached agreements and those who are negotiating them, he vindicated the agreements, although he made the limits clear, in a message addressed to directly to Santiago Abascal. A few words that Feijóo had already launched against the Valencian leader of Vox when last Friday he denied the existence of sexist violence. “In order not to fight against gender violence, don’t count on us,” repeated Feijóo, who pointed out that it is a red line for the popular.
Feijóo referred directly at the Madrid event to the agreement reached in Barcelona, ??which, in an unforeseen twist in the script, ended up giving the mayoralty to the socialist Jaume Collboni. The popular leader was proud that Trias and the Republican Ernest Maragall have not reached the local government, but he also said he was satisfied for having removed Ada Colau from the Catalan capital’s City Council. One of the conditions imposed by the popular Daniel Sirera.
Feijóo pointed out that it would be difficult for the PSOE, if it had the key to governance, to give its votes to the popular supporters in circumstances similar to those of Barcelona and Vitoria. “The Sanchista party would never have supported us in Barcelona, ??but I don’t care. I believe that we have fulfilled a duty.” Nor does it bother him that they have not thanked him from the PSOE, but he asks for one thing: “At least they should not insult us”, because that already seems “morally base” to him not acceptable.
The president of the PP, in front of all the popular barons, the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, and all the candidates who are on the PP list for Madrid, also recalled that the formation did this on the same day that the PSOE handed over Santiago de Compostela, where the PP had won, “to a sovereignist party.” He added, the same as in Navarra the PSOE “is trading with EH Bildu”, that is, with those who “have made Spain a hostage to those who want to break territorial unity”.
For this reason, and in view of the different formulas that have been given in the conformation of the city councils, says Feijóo, he will not accept “listening to morals from those who cannot give them” again. However, he was convinced that “there are parties that will always criticize us for having made pacts, with them or with others”, and even more so after the words of the Government delegate in Madrid about Bildu.
After the pacts promoted by the popular, Feijóo considers broken “the policy of blocks, trenches and gangs” that he attributes to Sánchez. At least, he said, “it has begun to break down.” “I do not believe in the politics of blocs”, he emphasized, and to end it he demanded “a solid and sufficient majority” that opens “a new time in Spain”, which he said would not be easy to achieve.
