The PP candidate for the general elections, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, promised yesterday to flee from the “centralist policies” as well as from those who “want to break the unity of the State”, with which he wanted to distance himself from the positions opposed to the autonomous State that promotes Vox, as well as the pro-independence claims.
At the closing of a sectoral event on the food system and the rural world in Gimenells (Lleida), the popular leader assured that “they will never hear a centralist speech from me” because “I am a peripheral politician, I am a politician from a community with a language own”, he said, alluding to his political career as president of Galicia. Therefore, “don’t count on me to make centralist policies. Do not count on me to break the unity of the State, ”he warned.
But Feijóo paid special attention to the claims of the independence movement to warn that “those who want to eat alone, want to eat more”, and for this reason, at this time “someone different is needed to preside over the government, and that is me” and ” I will not be Pedro Sánchez ”, he guaranteed.
Before starting this act in Catalan lands, where he will be again today, this time in Castelldefels, where his party regained the mayoralty from Manuel Reyes, Feijóo expressed on social networks his “loyalty and commitment” to the Spanish presidency of the Council of the EU that began yesterday, so that “it is a success for the country” and because “Europe is a project that involves us all”. But in Lleida, the leader of the PP questioned this same commitment on the part of the coalition government, recalling that in it “there are ministers who ask to leave NATO”, in reference to Izquierda Unida.
“Sánchez has said that Spain will fulfill its commitments with Ukraine and, in parallel, it has ministers who are asking to leave NATO and reduce military spending,” he reproached, something for which “in the EU they take us as a joke.”
Feijóo also dedicated a good part of his speech to talking about the Spanish economy, to question Sánchez’s optimism when he assures that “it is going like a motorcycle”.
The presidential candidate thus wanted to dismantle what he considers to be one of the “proclamations of sanchismo.” “It will be a damaged motorcycle, without brakes, without wheels and without gasoline,” he mocked, after recalling that Spain is the second country that has grown the least in the European Union since 2019, the one that has increased its debt the most and is the leader in youth unemployment and in female unemployment. According to Feijóo, the only thing that is going well is VAT collection, which has set a record with the entry into the state coffers of 40,000 million more in 2022.
“Sanchismo has meant five years of setback,” he concluded.
