He who warns is not a traitor, and Alberto Núñez Feijóo had warned. He did it during the investiture debate of Pedro Sánchez, when he warned him that when his partners abandoned him, he would not be able to go and ask him for help.
Now, when the approval of the first decree-laws that the Spanish Government has brought to Congress are in doubt, the Executive has gone to ask for help from the PP and the answer has been consistent with what he already told him then: “We do not we will fix the internal problems of their misgovernance”.
The Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, was the one who called yesterday the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, to ask for her support in approving the decree laws that Congress must validate this week. But, according to PP sources, no progress came out of the conversation.
The popular leader raised with the minister the conditions that Alberto Núñez Feijóo had already put on the table on December 28, and that he had reiterated a few hours before receiving the minister’s call: the deflation of the personal income tax rate on income of less than 40,000 euros; the reduction to zero of the VAT on meat, fish and canned goods, and that the VAT on gas and electricity remain at 5% as it was until the end of December, and not at 10%, as the decree goes up.
They are conditions, “considerations” the spokesperson of the PP, Borja Sémper, called them in a press conference held after the conversation between Bolaños and Gamarra, in which he assured that the vice-presidents María Jesús Montero and Teresa Ribera had not wanted to meet with the PP “to improve the decrees”, and only when Junts confirmed its rejection of the texts did the contact take place. Also the Vice-President and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, called Carrer Génova yesterday to ask for help in approving the decree to reform the unemployment benefit. The answer was the same.
Sémper, familiar with the content of the conversation between Bolaños and Gamarra, stressed that the PP would only study the possibility of abstaining, with which the decrees would go ahead, if the three conditions already set out were accepted, but in the contacts, he said, “there has been no offer and there has been no satisfactory response” to the three requests.
In view of the evidence that the decrees will hardly be approved, the Spanish Government raised the possibility that they be processed as draft laws once validated, which would allow amendments to be introduced, a circumstance that is not possible with the current procedure.
But the PP is not enough, because they still remember the times that, in the previous legislature, the Executive took on the commitment in exchange for approval and none of the decrees were modified with the requests of the groups that support.
So the PP spokesman, after the conversation between Bolaños and Gamarra, maintained indestructible the position that Feijóo had already set in the early hours of the morning. “The PP will not become the crutch of a president who has already chosen his partners”. “We will not help Sánchez when the coalition of the investiture was created to build a wall in front of the PP”, he added.
Yesterday morning, the leader of the PP shared his first public event at the beginning of the school year with the popular candidate and current president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda.
“In the face of stridency, trust and normality – said Feijóo. “In the face of the fights that take place in the State, in the face of the pardons, in the face of the amnesty, in the face of the permanent scandal”, he stressed, the PP offers “children’s schools, lower taxes, support for the self-employed and less debt” . In the face of “the lie – finished Feijóo -, fulfillment of the word given and in the face of excessive selfishness, honesty, humility and effort”.
The president of the PP warned in this event held in Madrid, in which the president of the Community, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, also participated, that the alternative to the Government of Alfonso Rueda in Galicia is “the multiparty government of Spain, which does not it has a common purpose for all of Spain”.
Feijóo believes that an eventual progressive government would turn Galicia “into a franchise of the Government of Spain”, because for the Prime Minister, he said, “Galicia is just another institution to be colonized”, and for the pro-independence parties, “a space for spread his ideology”.
In the same vein, the president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, expressed his desire to “preserve Galicia from the sloppiness” that exists in the central government, and to continue to be the “island of stability” that it is now , in an expression that recalls the old “Catalan oasis”, which was talked about all over Spain.
The PP candidate boasts of presiding over the second autonomous community with the smallest deficit; a community where taxes have been lowered and “away from the turbulence” that threatens other communities.
Rueda called for a campaign that talks more about the problems of citizens than about amnesty or the right to self-determination, although he admitted that despite the fact that it aims to talk about “what interests Galicia”, the “state scenario condition”. “Galicia will lose a lot if the instability that would represent a government like that of Spain is installed there”.
