The candidate of the PP in the general elections, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, promised yesterday that he would run away from “centralist policies” as well as those who “want to break the unity of the State”, with which he wanted to distance himself from both positions opposed to the Autonomous State promoted by Vox as well as independence claims.
At the closing of a sectoral event on the food system and the rural world in Gimenells (Lleida), the popular leader assured that “I will never hear a centralist speech” because “I am a peripheral politician, I am a politician from a community with its own language”, he said, referring to his political career as president of Galicia. Therefore, that “don’t count on me to make centralist policies. Don’t count on me to break the unity of the State”, he warned.
But Feijóo stopped in particular on the claims of independence to warn that “those who want to eat alone, want to eat more”, and that’s why at the moment “someone different is needed to preside over the Government and that person is me”. I will not be Pedro Sánchez”, he guaranteed.
Before starting this event in Catalan lands, where he will be again today, this time in Castelldefels, where his party regained the mayorship with Manuel Reyes, Feijóo expressed on social networks his “loyalty and commitment” to the Spanish presidency of the Council of the EU that started yesterday, so that “it will be a success for the country” and because “Europe is a project that involves us all”. But in Lleida, the leader of the PP called into question this same commitment on the part of the coalition Government, when he recalled that “there are ministers who are asking to leave NATO”, with reference to Esquerra Unida.
“Sánchez has said that Spain will fulfill its commitments with Ukraine and, at the same time, it has ministers who are asking to leave NATO and reduce military spending”, he reprimanded, which is why “the EU does not take us seriously”.
Feijóo also dedicated a good part of his speech to talking about the Spanish economy, to cast doubt on Sánchez’s optimism when he says that it “goes like a motorcycle”.
The presidential candidate thus wanted to dismantle what he considers to be one of the “proclamations of Sanchism”. “It must be a broken motorcycle, without brakes, without wheels and without gas”, he mocked, after recalling that Spain is the second country that has grown the least in the EU since 2019, the one that has increased its debt the most, and is a leader in youth unemployment and female unemployment. According to Feijóo, the only thing that is going well is the collection of VAT, which has been a record with the entry into the coffers of the State of 40,000 million more in 2022.
“The Sanchismo has meant five years of retrogression”, concluded Feijóo.
