The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, asked Pedro Sánchez this Wednesday to facilitate his investiture for a two-year legislature, in which they would address six major State pacts that the popular leader considers necessary for Spain, according to popular sources. . An offer immediately rejected by Pedro Sánchez, in a meeting in which formalities were maintained, but which did not last even an hour, contrary to what is usual. “I have found the no, it is no, for the moment,” said the popular leader at a subsequent press conference. To which the PSOE reacted by pointing out that, in view of the failed investiture, the PP “has gone from wanting to repeal sanchismo to begging for sanchismo.”
The first assessment of the meeting held in Congress was from the leader of the Popular Party who concluded that “the PSOE is not interested in the investiture between constitutionalist parties” despite which he offered the general secretary of the Socialists “an agreement in “for the sake of centrality so that the most voted list can govern in our country, as has been customary for the last 45 years.” An offer, said the president of the PP at a press conference in Congress, that only aims to end “the blockade or the government of inequality” that Sánchez is betting on, and for the government to govern for all Spaniards. .
Feijóo understands that the acting president is determined to agree with the independentistas both an amnesty and an independence referendum, but he will oppose it, because he has one thing clear: “I will never be president at the expense of the inequality of the Spaniards.” He wants “a governable nation and a stable state.”
With Feijóo’s government formula, in an executive that would have 15 ministers, with people of recognized prestige and independents at the helm, the influence that the pro-independence parties claim to have would be deactivated and Spain could guarantee equal treatment for Spaniards. For this reason, they say in the PP, Feijóo has asked the PSOE to facilitate his investiture to face six State pacts, and to face a Legislature that would last two years.
“Faced with the risk of repeating elections in four months,” the PP stressed, Feijóo offered a 24-year mandate to undertake the pending reforms for our country, and after that period, hold general elections. A period that could only be extended by agreement between the PP and PSOE, if it is considered that collaboration can be maintained to continue building these state pacts.
Totally different approaches. While Feijóo proposed an agreement “to calm Spain, reduce tension and reset the country”, the PSOE, according to socialist sources, insisted that the PSOE and the PP have been and are alternative government projects, “but they have always been capable of preserving a series of basic consensuses, fundamentally based on compliance with the Constitution and the rules of the game of our democracy”. However, “this has not been the case in recent years, and the PP has been breaking the Constitution for 1,727 days, blocking the renewal of the CGPJ.”
Something that Feijóo is willing to do, and has included it in his offer of six state pacts, in the first of which that of democratic regeneration, an agreement for the independence of the Judiciary, the Constitutional Court and the Prosecutor’s Office is included. general.
The PSOE’s proposal to Feijóo was that whoever the President of the Government is, “PP and PSOE formally commit to renewing the CGPJ before December 31 of this year.” An agreement that after the meeting seems far from being finalized.
Within the roadmap of the PP, after the investiture, a Board would be established that would develop six agreements: “Democratic Regeneration Pact”, “State Pact for Well-being, which guarantees the national health system, the stability and quality of the system education, and the viability of pensions. There would also be “an agreement for economic consolidation, which guarantees the solvency of the most vulnerable and the middle class and seeks a more prosperous path for young people.
Sánchez, for his part, has conveyed in person to Feijóo the refusal of the PSOE to give up its votes to the PP for the investiture of the national leader of the popular parties, certifying the dialogue of the deaf that both parties have maintained for more than a year in which the distancing from their positions has only grown.
This was underlined this Wednesday by the PSOE spokeswoman, Pilar Alegría, after the meeting held by the Socialist Federal Executive Commission to assess the terms of the meeting: “It is clear that it is a failed investiture and that the PP has wanted to keep this country in paralysis because the citizens spoke clearly on 23-J, and they did so to reject the PP and Vox pact” to repeal the policies of the PSOE and Podemos government. And she, asked about the offer made by Feijóo, she added that “the PP has gone from wanting to repeal sanchismo to beg sanchismo.”
“By the way, I don’t know if he will have received any calls from Mr. Abascal after the meeting,” Alegría ironized over the PP’s change of position regarding the pact signed with Vox.
Alegría has asked for the utmost respect for the PSOE. “The dialectic between parties is one thing, another between the government and the opposition, but the calls for turncoats that are being made by the PP are intolerable. And if Feijóo does not agree with them, we would ask him to amend his spokespersons.”
Asked about the 6 agreements proposed by Feijóo to Sánchez, the PSOE executive has been very exhaustive when recalling that “to offer agreements, the first thing you must have is proven credibility.” “And before offering them, you have to comply with the most sacred thing that is the Constitution, Alegría has emphasized, pointing out the 1727 days that are fulfilled without proceeding to the renewal of the CGPJ because the PP has decided so.”
To which he has launched that, in view of the failed inauguration, “Feijóo does not work thinking about his country or its stability. Rather, he thinks about how to save his skin. If anyone had any doubts that he was only looking for his political survival, he no longer has any doubts”, he has qualified.
