The president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has confessed this Thursday that he does not know English. He has done so in the course of an interview conducted by Ana Rosa Quintana on Tele5, in which, in addition to current affairs marked by the electoral results on Sunday and the call for general elections for July 23, there has been space to discuss a more personal matter.
After assuring that he believes more in the State of autonomy than the President of the Government because he has presided over one and Pedro Sánchez has not, and assuring that Spain is one of the “most polyhedral and at the same time the oldest as a nation” countries, Feijóo He recalled that he is bilingual but that his problem “is not with Spanish or Galician but with English”, precisely an area in which his opponent in the generals, Pedro Sánchez, handles himself with extraordinary ease.
At this point, he has recognized that he had a teacher to start studying English since last Monday before learning of the early call for elections and has promised to work on it, given the imminence of the Spanish presidency of the EU which, if he wins the elections, it would correspond to him to show off. “The important thing in international summits that are normally done with a translator is that you know very well what you want to say”, he has qualified, adding that he will not have “any problem” in explaining himself “in the second language of the world”. , alluding to Spanish. “Let it be known very well what I want to say is what worries me,” said the Galician leader, who in his schooling stage French used to be the language studied.
The PSOE has already taken advantage of these words to raise its ignorance of English on social networks as “one more problem for Feijóo”. In a video with circus music, the Socialists contrast the statements of the PP leader with scenes in which President Sánchez and the two Socialist vice-presidents, Nadia Calviño and Teresa Ribera, are seen explaining themselves in that language. At the same time, the PSOE reproaches him for not knowing this language when it is required in all professional sectors and more “if he aspires to preside over the Government of Spain.”
Another of the curiosities that have emerged from the interview is that, asked by Quintana about the issue, Feijóo does not consider changing the mattress of La Moncloa if he finally manages to be the new tenant of the presidential palace. He then recalled that in his time as president of the Xunta he did not change it during his 14-year term. “It must have been good, I slept great,” he commented, so “if he’s in good condition at La Moncloa,” he won’t think about it because his priorities will be other.
“We are going to restore calm to Spain to be able to prioritize the problems of citizens and we are going to recover international prestige and self-esteem,” he summarized some of his purposes.
