The PP will not be able to stop the granting of amnesty to those charged with the process, but it will make it difficult for them. It makes it difficult for them on the street, either with their own events, such as the one convened in Madrid before the investiture of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, or on Sunday attending the demonstration of Societat Civil Catalana. The president of the PP is determined to continue taking the protest to the streets.
But for now, and since the feeling he got from the meeting he had with the acting Prime Minister on Monday is that the investiture is going too far, the PP president is preparing new methods of pressure.
Just yesterday, the Popular Group in the Senate requested the convening of the General Commission of Autonomous Communities so that the regional presidents appear “in order to debate the effective application of the principles of equality before the law for all Spaniards and solidarity between the autonomous communities”, which translated is amnesty.
As soon as the request of the PP was made public, the president of the commission, the popular Luisa Fernanda Rudi, called a meeting of the Bureau for today in order to set the date for the appearance of the regional presidents. A call that does not guarantee the presence in the Senate of all the presidents, although yes of the majority, since its presidents belong to the PP. On other occasions, the presidents of Catalonia and the Basque Country have refused to go to this kind of convocation, which for now could also happen with the presidents of the PSOE, or at least with some of the three presidents that the party currently has formation led by Pedro Sánchez.
But it does so much for the PP. The absence of the socialist presidents, in their case, would be as explicit of the situation as their presence.
For the PP, if they do not attend it can be interpreted as the call made by the PSOE to the PP “not to shake the street”, thinking of October 12, because it shows that the movement against the grace measure is taking effect in the socialists.
Feijóo is ready to use the absolute majority that the PP has in the Senate so that the PSOE, and a future government, do not get away with it.
He also did this by simultaneously requesting the appearance of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, in Congress and in the Upper House, so that he could explain the Government’s position after the situation created in the Middle East with the attack by Hamas on Israel . The Popular Party fears that the division that exists between the members of the central government, which has been highlighted by the statements of acting vice-president Yolanda Díaz, and the position of the socialist part of the Spanish government, will cause the Congress is trying to delay the appearance of the head of foreign policy at the Bureau, which is why it has requested his appearance in the Senate, where the majority of the PP can advance the call.
With the amnesty, the Popular Party plans to go to the last consequences, and the initiatives will not be limited to the call to regional presidents. If it is finally approved, the PP will try to delay its approval as much as possible, to hinder the intentions of Pedro Sánchez.
All because, according to Feijóo, the amnesty would be “a democratic nonsense, an unprecedented democratic revolution and a massive electoral deception”. According to the president of the PP, “the pardon can be debatable”, but here “it is the State that forgives”. However, in the amnesty “it is the State that asks for forgiveness”. That is why he considers that “there is no minimum honesty in a candidate like Pedro Sánchez who does not go through an election” to obtain the approval of the Spanish in this matter.
