The PP will continue to use its absolute majority in the Senate to oppose the amnesty, and although in fact it has no consequences, it at least hinders Pedro Sánchez’s path to being president. The last decision is to request, today, the General Commission of Autonomous Communities, so that all the regional presidents go to the Upper House and rule on the things that are being negotiated for Sánchez’s investiture.
The decision was announced this Tuesday by the president of the PP, Pedro Sánchez, in a radio interview, who explained that the autonomous communities are states and it is good that their presidents, representatives of the state, speak out on the things that are being debated: amnesty, the fiscal pact, the breakdown of equality between Spaniards. In the opinion of the PP, the barons “have a lot to say” because what is being negotiated “is not an act of coexistence, but of convenience”, and is purely “a transaction”, which “we want to be debated in the Chamber territorial.
In fact, last week the Senate already established some commissions, such as the one on the statute of the deputy, and the General Commission of Autonomous Communities, to be able to propose initiatives like this one. The commission, which is chaired by Luisa Fernanda Rudí, may encounter, however, a problem, which is that there are regional presidents who do not want to appear, something that both the Catalan and Basque presidents usually do, to whom they could join those of the PSOE, but the 11 presidents of the PP will surely be there.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo insisted in his radio interview that Sánchez did not reveal his intentions to him in the meeting they held on Monday, but that he is convinced that if it is for him there will be a legislature, then he leaves the decision in the hands of Carles Puigdemont that Pedro Sánchez be president, because he sees the socialist candidate willing to give in with the amnesty, even if he did not cite it but only spoke of “moving forward and coexistence.”
For Feijóo, this amnesty would be “a democratic nonsense and an unprecedented democratic involution”, because “the pardon may be debatable”, but there “it is the state that forgives”, but in the amnesty “it is the state that asks for forgiveness.” That is why he considers that “there is no minimum honesty in a candidate like Sánchez who does not go through elections.”
And meanwhile, the PP will continue working, to try to stop these transfers, which in Catalonia, as in the Basque Country, where Feijóo recognizes that the PP is weak, involves strengthening his party. In the Basque Country, the machinery has already been launched for the elections of Javier Fernández as president of the Basque PP, with the intention of facing the elections that Euskadi will hold next year, and then it will be Catalonia’s turn, where Feijóo He doesn’t want to talk about names.
However, he highlighted the results obtained in the general elections, when it went from two to six deputies “and if we had not made some mistakes there could have been eight or nine,” as well as the results obtained in the municipal elections in Lleida, where it was the second force. , in Tarragona, where he finished third, without forgetting the results in Badalona or Castelldefels, which in his opinion requires leaders like those.
For Feijóo, the PP is already improving results in Catalonia, but there are thousands and thousands of Catalans “orphaned by clear political references” so the PP has “hundreds of thousands of potential voters” that it has to address. and they are not only the voters of the PP, Ciudadanos or Vox, but also those of the PSC. That is why he considers that one of his tasks is “to unmask the PSC, which has more agreements with ERC and Junts than those two pro-independence parties have with each other.”
“The PSC is bankrupt and has given its constitutionalist position to Pedro Sánchez,” and the PP will address voters who do not agree that Illa is willing to give in to the independentists.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo also announced that the PP will request the appearance of Pedro Sánchez in Congress, or at least that of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, so that they can report on the situation in the Middle East, given the war unleashed after the Hamas attack. to Israel, and explain “why Spain has been excluded” from the declaration signed by France, Germany, Italy, the United States and the United Kingdom, about what happened, despite holding the current presidency of the European Union.
