Throughout the day, the PP entertained the possibility of the total defeat of the Government, with the repeal of the three decree laws that Congress had to validate. But after the chaos of the voting, which forced the repetition of three votes, Alberto Núñez Feijóo did not wait to emphasize that “Spain does not deserve this.”
And this is, for the president of the PP, “the ridicule, humiliation and disgrace” that it represents, in the opinion of the popular ones, that the Executive has had to give in, until the last hours, very serious issues, in order to save its first decree laws, since the conciliation of work and family life, is considered a defeat of Vice President Susana Díaz, and not of the Government.
In an appearance before the media, in the Senate, where the plenary session of Congress was held, Feijóo regretted what had happened, to the point of confessing that if he had known that politics consisted of what has been experienced in recent years days and hours “I would not have dedicated myself to politics.”
The president of the PP declared himself “stunned by the situation in my country” and considers that he shares with the majority of Spaniards their stupor at what happened, and a question that he believes Spaniards ask themselves “What is this?”
Alberto Núñez Feijóo does not refer so much to the way in which the votes were developed, and almost not to the content of the decrees that have fallen, that have been approved or whose voting has had to be repeated for them to be approved, but to the negotiations that the Government has carried out, and “the transfers and marketing” through which Pedro Sánchez has managed to save the decrees that have not expired. “My country does not deserve this,” Feijóo concluded. “He does not deserve this absurdity, this absurdity of misgovernment in which we are mired.”
In the opinion of the PP, what happened with the decrees is “a disgrace, a humiliation and this absurdity”, because in their opinion, and regardless of the result of the votes, and whether the decree laws have been approved or not, “the The Government has made a fool of itself, marketing the rights of all Spaniards”, and without the Spaniards knowing what has been negotiated and in exchange for what.
For the president of the PP, what has been demonstrated with this day is that the Government “is presided over by a president without a portfolio; The action of the Sánchez Government is decided from Geneva or from Brussels, where it is said what is approved, how it is approved, when it is approved and, apparently, how long the legislature will last.”
The situation is serious according to Feijóo, because, he said, “it is the first time in the democratic history of Spain that the Government has transferred national sovereignty outside of the Cortes, the first time that the direction of the Executive does not depend on anyone who feels in Council, and the first time that the prerogative for the duration of the legislature does not reside with the President of the Government”, but rather it is a decision that is made outside of Spain. But also, for Feijóo, with the transfers of the Executive it is shown that the Government “has lost respect for the Spanish”, who do not know “what has been negotiated, what price they are paying and if there are more hooded agreements.”
Feijóo complains that the decrees have been approved without the Government having explained what it has granted to Junts for its abstention, and that the Spaniards and the parties only know what Junts says it has agreed with the government.
And Feijóo also referred to this in his appearance before the press, especially to the transfer of powers in immigration, which the PP will study, when it is known, if it is constitutional, and if it will present an appeal to the TC. And Feijóo considers that immigration powers involve border control, which is why he wonders if Catalonia “is a state with borders different from those of Spain.” Furthermore, immigration powers would leave the decision of whether or not to accept immigrants from other autonomous communities in the hands of Catalonia, and the PP wants to know if the Generalitat “will be able to say no to immigrants who come from other communities.”
The leader of the PP also referred to the publication of the fiscal balances, “as if Spain were kingdoms of Taifas”, and the repeal in the decree of approved judicial measures of the reform of the Prosecution Law that made it difficult, in the opinion of Junts the effectiveness of the amnesty.
Feijóo wonders “how much Pedro Sánchez will be able to humiliate himself” plus, “how much extortion he is able to endure from his partners, and how much ridicule we still have to see.”
