Alberto Núñez Feijóo charged yesterday for the conditions imposed the day before yesterday by the leaders of Esquerra Republicana and EH Bildu to support a possible investiture of Pedro Sánchez. The popular candidate stated that in order to remain president of the Government Pedro Sánchez will have to continue yielding to the pro-independence parties, “as he has done throughout this legislature”. For this reason, Feijóo addressed the still head of the Executive to ask him how far he is willing to give in after the announcement by Oriol Junqueras during a joint event of ERC and Bildu about the possibility of holding a referendum on self-determination in the Basque Country and Catalonia, a proposal that did not receive a response from Arnaldo Otegi.
The popular leader pointed out that Sánchez has given in on the repeal of the crime of sedition, the modification of embezzlement and pardons for those convicted by the process, having won the elections, and questioned “what will happen” when he does not win the elections, but wants to govern. “Holding a self-determination referendum on the same day in Catalonia and the Basque Country is the price to which the pro-independence parties are subjecting the possible investiture of Sánchez”, pointed out Feijóo, convinced that support for the PSOE “will be paid in cash”.
The president of the PP resumed his electoral activity yesterday, which on Wednesday he had limited to interviews, suffering from a backache. He did it with an interview with RNE and two rallies: one in Valencia and another in Madrid.
Taking advantage of the rest day, he admitted that he had seen almost the entire debate on RTVE and assured that he saw three candidates “to lead the opposition”.
So, the president of the PP said that he did not regret his absence in the debate. “For not attending, I was the most mentioned person”, joked Feijóo in Las mañanas, from RNE, in which he emphasized that what he saw were “three parties whose objective is that whoever wins the elections does not govern”.
For this reason, he stated that the debate did not contribute anything, because the important thing was to know the “plans of Sánchez, Otegi and Junqueras”, and he recalled that the PP already demanded that it be seven and not four.
His plans, he continued, are to bring back the crime of sedition, increase the penalties for embezzlement and criminalize the calling of an illegal referendum. “The same thing that Sánchez said and that he breached. I say it and it will be seen that I will fulfill it”, he said.
However, the popular leader assured that this does not mean that a government led by the PP intends to seek confrontation with Catalonia, as predicted this week by Santiago Abascal. The populists, as their leader explains, want to “reduce the tension and talk to everyone, even those who don’t like the Constitution”. “I want to talk to Catalonia about the problems of the Catalans”, he pointed out.
For this reason, on Carrer Génova they value the warnings and warnings expressed by Pedro Sánchez about the possibility of Vox entering a government with the popular people. “The PSOE has no problem with Vox being in the executive – he said – what it doesn’t want is for the PP to govern”. In this sense, he recalled that the people of Abascal and the Socialists have voted together “so that the popular do not govern in two autonomous communities, Murcia and Cantabria, and in six mayorships”.
In order to achieve a stable government, in these last few hours the PP is calling for a useful vote and they assure that theirs is the only party that will bring about change. In this line, Feijóo addresses the socialists “who are not Sanchists”, “those who voted for a new policy and have realized that it was a bad policy”, those who voted “who should touch the sky” and those of the 15-M “who got Pedro Sánchez to be president” and have now seen how their ministers “have kicked them out”.
As a hook, he promises to lower taxes and adds that he will try to agree with everyone “the improvement of democratic quality” so that, for example, ministers cannot later become magistrates of the Constitutional Court.
In addition, if he is invested, he will also make a proposal, after the experience of this electoral campaign, so that it is prohibited by law to hold elections in the months of July and August, unless there are cases of extraordinary urgency, as is already happening in Andalusia.
