Alberto Núñez Feijóo, president of the Popular Party, landed yesterday in Catalonia to face the last week of the electoral race together with the candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat, Alejandro Fernández, for different Catalan municipalities. This afternoon, together with Xavier García Albiol, they closed the central campaign rally in Badalona, ??where in the last municipal elections of 28M they obtained a large absolute majority. Their aspiration, as they have expressed today, is to group the constitutionalist ballot and demand the vote of those socialists who “have seen that voting for the PSOE in Catalonia has been of no use.”
“They say that the process cannot return and that the best thing is to vote for the PSC. As if the PSC were not part of the process,” the PP leader began. The socialists, according to the popular ones, have given “a ball of oxygen” and have “revived” a process that was already “in its last consequences” due to partisan interests.
Continuing with his criticism of the socialist party, Feijóo has reproached them for opening up an agreement with Puigdemont, feeling “above the law and justice” and neglecting “the real problems of the people.” For all this, the national leader of the PP has asked himself: “What was the point of voting for the socialist party in Catalonia?” “Not at all. It only serves to do what Sánchez orders, regardless of what goes well for Catalonia,” he continued.
In this final stretch of the Catalan campaign the PP is fighting to be decisive in the Parliament. For this reason, the president of the PP made a clear call to unite the vote around his party, directing his speech towards the right border: “When the vote is added, the seats are multiplied; But when it is divided, we remain in the opposition.”
But Feijóo has also taken advantage of today’s event in Badalona, ??the municipal fiefdom of the Popular Party in Catalonia, to appeal to socialist voters who have felt “disappointed” by Sánchez. “Voting for one and the other,” in reference to the PSC and the pro-independence parties, “is the same, and the problem is that it brings the same consequences: sectarianism, distrust and division.”
Feijóo has been critical of the PSC candidate, Salvador Illa, and has asked him “not to make fun of the Catalans.” The popular one has warned that these elections “are not about what Illa decides, but about what suits Sánchez.”
