“What happened yesterday in the Senate has to be voted on.” It is the order that Alberto Núñez Feijóo has given to the Popular Group, and that has translated into a non-legal proposal in Congress with which he intends that Pedro Sánchez answer the question that he did not answer to the president of the PP, despite the fact that It was asked at least four times. Are you going to agree with Bildu?

The proposal wants the pronouncement of all the parties, “to clarify the situation”, although in reality what it wants is for Sánchez and the PSOE to say yes or no to the possibility of agreeing, again, with the formation of the abertzale left, in the event that it continues to include those convicted of terrorism on its lists. The leadership of the PP thinks that “already by omission”, by not saying anything in the Senate on Tuesday, Sánchez has said that he is willing to agree again, but he wants him to say it clearly and what better than voting.

Specifically, the PP initiative, which will be debated after the elections, says that Congress “urges the Government to immediately and definitively break the agreements it currently maintains and not promote pacts, nor establish any type of governance or of any other type, with political parties that have in their structures or that have included in their candidacies for any electoral process, people who have been convicted of crimes of terrorism, regardless of whether they have served their sentences”.

Sources from the national leadership of the PP assure that Feijóo does not insist on this issue for electoral gain, but rather as a matter of principle and that it is necessary for people to know what can happen. Specifically, the popular talk about the need for citizens in the Basque Country and Navarra to know if the Socialists are going to agree with Bildu to take over the council of some cities or with the Navarrese government.

Moreover, Alberto Núñez Feijóo would be willing to lend his votes, for example in Navarra, to María Chivite, if she wins the elections, so that she does not govern with Bildu. Of course, in exchange for the socialists not giving any council to those of the nationalist left.

In addition, the PP is studying the possibility that it can legally prohibit the presence of those convicted of terrorism on the lists of any party, as long as they have not previously asked for forgiveness, and have not repaired the victims, since neither the party law Not even the general electoral regime law makes it possible at this time to cancel these lists. Feijóo’s party considers that the party law is designed to work when ETA existed and issues such as the outlawing of parties like Bildu are not applicable now, contrary to what Vox proposes, which wants Congress to urge the outlawing of Bildu , an approach to which the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, also points.

These approaches are made by Feijóo’s team the day after the harsh confrontation between the President of the Government and the leader of the opposition, in the Senate, of which one thing has become clear to the president of the Popular Party, that Sánchez “is capable of everything” to stay in power and to be president again. And if this debate is now on the table, it is not because the PP has brought it up, they say, but “because this PSOE is not the same as before. It is not Rubalcaba’s, not even Zapatero’s, who would never have agreed with Bildu In fact, the popular ones consider that Sánchez’s words on Tuesday in Congress were “an amendment to the totality” of the anti-terrorist policy agreed for many years between the PSOE and the PP, and they are convinced that with Sánchez it would not have been possible the Antiterrorism Pact signed while the PP was in government and the PSOE in opposition, nor the law for the recognition of victims, approved during the time of President Zapatero and with the PP in opposition.

Sánchez’s response to Feijóo was, for the popular, “a defamation of the position of the PP for 40 years.” The popular ones attribute to Sánchez an intention, therefore, to evade the debate and to “mudd up control” and to remove Feijóo “from his zone of rationality”, but that is not going to intimidate the president of the PP who, they assure “will not is fighting this battle for a handful of votes.” What the president of the PP intends, the same sources underline, is “not to whitewash Bildu” who “has not done his homework”, and for this reason he is willing to denounce him until the end.