It is one thing to talk, and another to negotiate, agree and yield. The first is what the PP did with Junts to explore the possibilities of Alberto Núñez Feijóo being invested as president, but that was all, as Elías Bendodo acknowledged yesterday to the press after a working meeting with the municipal team of Barcelona: “Our red lines are known”, concluded the deputy secretary of autonomous politics of the PP.
However, this assumption of one’s own limitations in the steps to be taken towards a more than unlikely bilateral agreement did not prevent the popular leader from at the same time defending the need for a political dialogue with all formations, and the capacity of his party to head it when appropriate.
After Carles Puigdemont affirmed that if Junts had invested Feijóo, “all this would not have happened”, with reference to the judicial response to the processing of an Amnesty law at the request of the PSOE in Congress and to the investigation into the Russian plot in the process in the European Parliament, Bendodo made the former president’s statement his own and ironically accepted it: indeed, he conceded, because the leader of the PP would not have given in as, in his opinion, Pedro Sánchez did continue to Moncloa.
All in all, the popular leader, who stood out at the time as a defender of the multi-nationality of the State – until he was corrected by the popular leadership in one of his discursive vagaries – and who is considered one of the plausible emissaries from Génova towards Puigdemont’s environment, he admitted that his party “has the ability to talk to everyone”, including, therefore, Junts per Catalunya, and that this circumstance should “be framed within democratic normalcy”.
“We have nothing to hide”, argued Bendodo when asked about the possible fear of the PP that the details of some contacts will be leaked that, although they took place in the shadow of discretion, Feijóo himself has acknowledged .
Nevertheless, and after La Vanguardia revealed the meeting held by the head of the ranks of the PP at the Barcelona City Council, Daniel Sirera, with the president of the Junts al Parlament group and the party’s spokesperson, Albert Batet and Josep Rius, respectively, Bendodo reiterated that “he is not aware” of approaches to Carles Puigdemont or Jordi Turull, secretary general of the pro-independence formation.
In any case, he wanted to emphasize that dialogue can always be held, but without ever reaching the “unacceptable concessions” of the Sánchez Government in the face of independence: “We haven’t even come a long way,” said the Andalusian.
The deputy secretary of autonomous and municipal politics of the PP moved yesterday Friday from Malaga to Barcelona, ??where he held a working meeting with the popular group of the Barcelona City Council, led by Sirera, in which the president also participated party in Catalonia, Alejandro Fernández.
With the Catalan elections in a time horizon that cannot go beyond one year – February 2025 -, Elías Bendodo left until after the European elections in June, as has been done in view of the persistent internal disagreements, the organization of the pending congress of the PP of Catalonia and the election of the popular candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat. And, along with Fernández himself, he did not want to advance publicly if the current leader in Parliament has the support of the national leadership.
When they asked him about this issue, Alejandro Fernández came out saying that he doesn’t want to talk about “his book” now, this is, of himself, something that seems “childish” to him, and he pointed out that he will speak when it hits The result of the next Galician elections will make it possible to elucidate the real strength of Feijóo and, therefore, the project that can be defined in Catalonia to clarify this unknown will be clarified.
