Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s approach to Junts has opened a gap for Ciudadanos, which has taken the opportunity to distance itself from the PP president’s praise for Carles Puigdemont in his conference on Wednesday in Barcelona, ??where he spoke of the need to normalize relations with the Catalan nationalism and expressed his “respect” for the former president.
“Normalizing Junts is normalizing non-compliance with the law,” Carlos Carrizosa denounced in a video broadcast on social networks. For the leader of Ciudadanos in Catalonia, Feijóo cannot express respect for someone who “divided the Catalans, impoverished Catalonia and fled in a car trunk.”
“We do not understand these words from Feijóo, which represent a surrender of constitutionalism and an absolute whitewashing of Puigdemont and what he means,” exclaims Carrizosa in the video, in which he shows different newspapers with the opposition leader’s words highlighted in front page.
For Ciudadanos, the consequence of this approach by the Popular Party to Junts with a view to a possible future collaboration, given their coincidences in the economic field, means bringing closer the objectives of Puigdemont’s formation, which are the amnesty and the referendum. “It is unheard of that the head of the opposition whitewashes in this way the person who is making an agreement with Puigdemont,” says Carrizosa, who with this movement sees Pedro Sánchez’s investiture as imminent: “Feijóo has just consecrated it, I take it for granted,” he says.
“Ciudadanos is never going to surrender like Feijóo has done, it is never going to do this. It is never going to trade with the votes of that Catalonia that is disgusted and oppressed by the pro-independence minority. We are not going to exchange governments like the PP and the PSOE do with who want to divide Spain,” concludes Carrizosa.
But not only in a rival party, although from the same constitutionalist ideological spectrum as Ciudadanos, have Feijóo’s words aroused suspicion, there are also suspicions in the PP’s own ranks. This is the case of the president of the party in Catalonia, Alejandro Fernández, whose confrontation with the Genoa guidelines has been increasing.
Increasingly isolated by members of the leadership and without important allies among the party leaders in Catalonia, Fernández exhibited the support of the grassroots at a conference last month and demanded a PP in Catalonia without “tutelage” from Madrid. and not subject to strategic “lumps” in the relationship with Junts.
After meeting briefly with the leader of his party before the event at the Palace hotel and quickly leaving for the Parliament to participate in the plenary session these days, Fernández posted yesterday, once the statements expressed by Feijóo were known, an enigmatic tweet in the which, along with a photo of both of them and President José Montilla, indicates that “there is some truth” in that “the face is the mirror of the soul.”
