Vitoria and especially Barcelona have allowed the PP to show that, if the others want it, it is capable of reaching an agreement. The party leadership recalls that they have done this since May 28 with Coalició Canària, with the Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC), with the PSOE, and also with Vox. The populists believe that after the last-minute agreements, their political opponents will not be able to accuse them of only knowing how to agree with the ultra party. For this reason, they face for “having prevented the pro-independence parties” from governing in Vitoria and Barcelona.
The reasons for these agreements, as assured by the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, are “the sense of State of the PP”. Thus he defended the agreements that led him to vote for the socialist candidates in Vitoria and Barcelona, ??so that EH Bildu and Junts, two pro-independence parties, did not win the mayoralties. Pacts that are born “from the principles we defend, no matter how much Pedro Sánchez doesn’t have them”, criticized Feijóo yesterday.
The president of the PP gathered yesterday his territorial power in Madrid’s Retiro park, and in front of his barons, those who have already reached pacts and those who are negotiating them, he claimed the agreements, although he made the limits clear , in a message addressed directly to Santiago Abascal. Some words that Feijóo had already thrown at the Valencian leader of Vox when last Friday he denied the existence of sexist violence. “To not fight against gender violence, let them not count on us”, repeated Feijóo, who pointed out that it is a red line for the popular people.
Feijóo referred directly to the Madrid event to the agreement reached in Barcelona, ??which, in an unexpected turn of events, ended up giving the mayorship to the socialist Jaume Collboni. In this sense, the popular leader was proud that Trias and the republican Ernest Maragall did not reach the local government, but he also said that he was satisfied to have removed Ada Colau from the City Council of the Catalan capital. One of the conditions imposed by the popular Daniel Sirera.
Feijóo pointed out that the PSOE, if it had the key to governance, would hardly give its votes to the people in circumstances similar to those in Barcelona and Vitoria. “The Sanchista party would never have supported us in Barcelona, ??but I don’t care. I consider that we have fulfilled a duty”. Nor does it bother him that they didn’t thank him from the PSOE, but he asks for one thing: “At least they shouldn’t insult us”, because this already seems to him to be “an unacceptable level of moral lowness”.
The president of the PP, in front of all the popular barons, the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, and all the candidates who are on the PP list for Madrid, also recalled that the PP has done this the same day that the PSOE handed over Santiago de Compostela, where the PP had won, to a sovereignist party. He added, the same as in Navarre the PSOE “is trading with EH Bildu”, that is to say, with those who “have made Spain a hostage of those who want to break territorial unity”.
For this reason, and given the different forms of government that have been given in the formation of the town councils, says Feijóo, he will no longer accept “listening to morals from those who cannot give it”, despite being convinced that “there are parties that will criticize us always for having made pacts, with them or with others”, and more after the words of the delegate of the Central Government in Madrid, about EH Bildu.
After the pacts reached, Feijóo declares “the politics of blocs, trenches and sides” that Sánchez has instituted these years as broken. At the very least, he said, “it has begun to break down” and he makes a whole declaration of principle: “I don’t believe in blog politics” and he is ready to put an end to it, for which he needs to, he assured , “a solid and sufficient majority” that opens “a new era in Spain”, which he said would not be easy to achieve.
